Wellington Club Weekly / October 2023
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Sideline Conversions 30 October (some rugby news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- A bittersweet day yesterday for rugby fans across New Zealand. On one hand, the All Blacks excelled on the world stage and came within a whisker of winning the Rugby World Cup; on the other there were several what ifs and maybes on fulltime after the 11-12 loss to the Springboks in drizzly Paris. For...
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Sir Gordon Tietjens Sevens this weekend
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- The annual Sir Gordon Tietjens Sevens Tournament is being played at Massey University this Saturday and Sunday. The tournament hosted by Palmerston North Boys’ High School features three divisions, these being: Open Boys, Open Girls, U15 Boys, each being played concurrently on three adjacent fields. Pool play is on Saturday from 11.20am to 3.30pm approximately,...
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Aisle be Back: The Rugby World Cup Final – the buildup
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy This would be world cup X I think, if we were following Superbowl convention. So, how’s your buildup been? This is mine. X minus 7 – a very enjoyable England v Boks semi. I’m not taking the purist holier than thou stance that this was a disgrace. England went in with a...
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Sideline Conversions 25 October (Some midweek rugby news and information)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The 2023 season is rapidly coming to a close, and with it this column for this year. See below for some midweek news and information. An entertaining, positive day out in sunny conditions at Naenae College on Monday for the annual Condor Sevens tournament, with some great rugby played. Scots College and St Pat’s Silverstream...
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Scots, St Mary’s and Hutt Valley High School win Condor 7s titles
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- The Hutt Valley High School and Wellington College teams at the conclusion of the U15 final. HVHS won the title 31-15. By Steven White Scots College (Open Boys), St Mary’s College (Open Girls and U15s Girls) and Hutt Valley High School are the 2023 Wellington region Condor 7s champions. Both Scots and St Mary’s retained...
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Condor Sevens teams and draw revealed for Labour Day Monday tournament
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- Entries are not flash, but excitement is high for Monday’s 2023 Wellington region Condor Sevens qualifying tournament at Naenae College. Some 24 teams representing 16 schools across four grades will make the annual trek to Naenae College on Monday for the Wellington region Condor Sevens qualifying tournament. The competitions being contested concurrently are Open Boys,...
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Aisle be Back: It’s semis time at the RWC and the NPC final
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- By Kevin McCarthy It’s quite a testimony to the fast looming legacy phase of Ian Foster’s All Blacks tenure that there’s extra reason to have a gnawing feeling in the stomach ahead of tomorrow’s rugby world semifinal against Argentina. We surely know by now that there is nothing given for any team at this or...
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Condor 7s – a blast from the past – some recent tournament highlights
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- Last year’s Wellington Condor 7s Open Boys and Open Girls winners, Scots College and St Mary’s College. Photos: Andy McArthur. The annual Wellington region Condors 7s qualifying tournament is again being played at Naenae College on Labour Day Monday (23 October). Confirmed teams and draw to come, but in the meantime a look back and...
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Wellington v Hawke’s Bay NPC Semi-final Stat Attack
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- By Peter Marriott Result: Hawke’s Bay 25 – Wellingto Wellington and Hawke’s Bay have now met 31 times at NPC level. Wellington has won on 18 of those occasions and Hawke’s Bay has won 11 times. There have been two drawn matches. Of the 16 NPC matches which have now been played in Wellington, Hawke’s...
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Sideline Conversions 16 October (some rugby news and happenings to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Argy-Bargy, the East-West NPC final and sevens heaven. It’s the end of the 15s season for Wellington players and the supporters and the sevens season just around the corner. Starting with sevens, local fans are gearing up for the annual Condor 7s tournament at Naenae College on Labour Day Monday. This is followed by the...
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Lions to play 500th NPC match in semi-final, Hurricanes Schools 7s on Saturday
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- The Wellington Lions are primed to play their 500th NPC match since the start of the competition in 1976 and appear in their seventh NPC semi-final in the past decade when they host the Hawke’s Bay Magpies tomorrow night. The Lions also go into this clash against the Magpies hoping to both reverse the results...
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Aisle be Back: The Quarter-Final
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- By Kevin McCarthy It must have been about 2004, when I still went to parties. I was talking to an attractive Irish woman – somebody had to – and she was haranguing me about how shit New Zealand was. This being the country she was currently living in, it seemed bold. But the context was...
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Best & Fairest competitions Teams of the Year 2023
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- Above, clockwise from top left: Billy Wallace (circa 1905) and some of the players in this year’s Men’s Best & Fairest team, Loius Northcott, Brandyn Laursen, Sione Halalilo, Nick Robertson, Toby Crosby, Jack O’Brien and Mark Sutton. By Scott MacLean After a year’s hiatus our Teams of the Year return for 2023. Based on the...
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Wellington v Waikato Quarter-final Stat Attack
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- By Peter Marriott Quarter-final: Wellington (32) v Waikato (28) Wellington and Waikato have now met 47 times at NPC level. Wellington has won on 27 occasions and Waikato 20. So far there have been no drawn matches. For the first time since 2005, Wellington has won three matches in a row against Waikato. In home...
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Petone’s Stanley Solomon and Justine McGregor win Best and Fairest club rugby competitions
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- By Steven White Petone backs Stanley Solomon and Justine McGregor have won this year’s respective Men’s and Women’s Wellington club rugby Best and Fairest competitions. Solomon won the Men’s Billy Wallace Trophy and McGregor the Women’s Erin Rush Cup, at the combined Wellington Lions/WRFU Community Awards held in the Norwood Room at the Basin Reserve...
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Sideline Conversions 9 October (some rugby news and information to start the new week)
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- Monday morning edittion. Updates expected. Thirty two. That’s the number on the Wellington Lions’ mind as they lick their wounds (literally if you’re James O’Reilly) and prepare to face the Hawke’s Bay Magpies in this coming Saturday’s major NPC semi-final down at Wellington Stadium. The Lions survived 32 phases of heated Waikato attack in the...
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Ranfurly Shield broken, give it to the Heartland
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- By Adam Julian It’s only recently the Ranfurly Shield has been publicly labelled a taonga. Taonga is a Māori word to describe treasured items or possessions that hold cultural, spiritual, historical or personal significance. These can include physical objects such as artwork, carvings, jewellery or heirlooms, as well as intangible concepts like songs, dances, stories...
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Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Uruguay (the wash-up)
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- By Kevin McCarthy My family used to live in the Falkland Islands, and politics being politics, if they needed better medical care, they’d take the slow boat to neighbouring Uruguay, rather than Argentina. The said ship, the Montevideo, was legendary for making people violently sick in the wild South Atlantic seas. I felt the same...
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Lions off to Mooloo Safari and Heartland Championship semi-finals tomorrow
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- Rob Law Max flanker Du Plesssis Kirifi takes on Waikato’s halfback Xavier Roe when the Lions and Mooloo met in Wellington last year. The two teams return to the same venue tomorrow in their quarter-final. The Wellington Lions will be hoping to put the disappointment of losing their 21-match unbeaten streak and relinquishing the Ranfurly...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 062: ‘Little Eric’, Basil the Barracker, Dick Evans (the supporters)
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- Focusing on some of the supporters and looking at three individuals that were well known or helped galvanise the Wellington rugby public in years gone by. These days you can count the crowd at some games, it seems. In a bygone era there were many characters and supporters who helped shaped the game and made...
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Roman Tutauha proud centurion on the Meads Cup march
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- By Adam Julian – this story was written for NZRU channels this week and has been republished here with permission. It took some persuasion for Roman Tutauha (Ngāti Ruanui) to speak publicly about his 100th match for Whanganui. This coming Saturday the stoic, sturdy, and softly-spoken hooker will become the 15th Whanganui player to crack...
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The Lord’s Colonial Taonga
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- The Wellington team in 1904, the first winners of the Ranfurly Shield. By Rolling Maul The general disquiet and disbelief expressed by New Zealanders following damage to the iconic “Ranfurly Shield” last weekend reflects a great respect for this country’s colonial history. The Shield recalls the colonial governorship of New Zealand’s thirteenth Governor, Lord Ranfurly,...
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New Zealand Schools win second match over Australia U18s
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- By Adam Julian New Zealand Schools: 55 (Jay Cameron, Tevita Naufahu 2, Oli Mathis 2, Kiseki Fifita, Shaun Kempton, Logan Wallace tries, Rico Simpson 6 con, pen) Australia U18: 36 (Dre Pakeho, Toby Brial 2, Luca Cleverley, Boston Fakafanua tries; Hwi Sharples 3 con, pen, Finn Prass con) HT: 29-24. Referee: Will Pugsley. Venue: Viking Park, Canberra New Zealand...
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Sideline Conversions 2 October (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Old Timers’ Day at the Stadium on Saturday. Wellington’s loss to Hawke’s Bay was their first in 10 games at this venue. Their last defeat before Saturday was also against Hawke’s Bay. Photo: Andy McArthur. Photo galleries HERE Monday morning edition – updates expected: Big news late yesterday when it was revealed that the Hawke’s...
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