Wellington Club Weekly / July 2024
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 081: Graham Delamore
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- Graham “Red” Delamore was Wellington’s only representative in the 1949 All Blacks touring party to South Africa. Several Wellington players had been in the running to make the trip to South Africa nine years earlier in 1940, with local players such as Ernie Todd and Jim Sherratt being two examples of players not becoming All...
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Experienced and new faces combine in Wellington Lions squad in 2024
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- By Steven White & Adam Julian On paper, and barring injuries in a couple of key positions, the 2024 Wellington Lions squad looks strong, and there is no reason why they shouldn’t re-enter the NPC winners’ circle in 2024. There is a core group of vastly experienced players, another cohort of established Super Rugby players...
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Matchday Scoring highlights Hardham Cup Final: Wainuiomata (24) v Paremata-Plimmerton (19)
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- The two teams met at Porirua Park on Saturday in the 2024 Wellington club rugby Premier 2 Hardham Cup final. A report of the fixture is here: Wainuiomata win Hardham Cup with win over Paremata-Plimmerton Highlights of this match are below: Bonus Track: Old Boys University beat Tawa 27-21 to win the Jubilee Cup...
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Sideline Conversions 29 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Home club Northern United won the first final of the day on Saturday at Porirua Park, the Colts Division 1 decider. That’s a wrap for most of club rugby this year in Wellington, with just the final two weeks of the Reserve Grade Division 2 competition to come in the competitive grades. It is also...
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Wainuiomata win Hardham Cup with win over Paremata-Plimmerton
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- Fulltime in the Hardham Cup final. Wainuiomata are the 2024 Premier 2 Hardham Cup champions, beating Paremata-Plimmerton 24-19 in the final at a fine but breezy Porirua Park early this afternoon. It was close throughout, but it was a 76th minute long-range penalty to first-five Andrew Wells that put them 10 points up and make...
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OBU, Wainuiomata, HOBM win major club rugby finals
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- Six champions were crowned at Porirua Park this afternoon. A round-up of the action that we covered follows. JUBILEE CUP They’ll be Harkin about it all summer. Old Boys University won a Jubilee Cup final for the ages on Jerry Collins Stadium. OBU won 27-21, holding off waves of Tawa attack on their own goal...
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Wellington club rugby Finals Day at Porirua Park tomorrow
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- By Scott MacLean All roads lead to Porirua Park for Finals Day tomorrow. There are six finals being played across two fields. A preview of the day’s action is below. Premier Jubilee Cup Tawa (4) vs Old Boys University (1) Referee: Jamie Fairmaid For the second time in three years sides that met in the...
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Wellington club rugby Finals Day live scoring, live streaming and live listening updates and links
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- It’s week 17 of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today and this year the union is holding six finals in one hit at Porirua Park. Finals today are: Colts Division 2, Vic Calcinai Memorial Cup: Northern United v Paremata-Plimmerton, Porirua Park 2, 11.00am. Colts Division 1, John E Kelly Cup: Hutt Old Boys Marist...
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Harry Irving and OBU preparing for Jubilee Cup final on Saturday
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- Harry Irving on the attack against Petone earlier this season. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian Most players go through their careers without winning a Jubilee Cup even if they are of rare quality and durability. Jason Goble played 275 games for Avalon and never contested a decider. Similarly, Paul Hakaraia made 255 starts for...
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Hutt Old Boys Marist and Tawa to meet in Colts final on Saturday
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- After a full 13-week round-robin followed by a three-week knock out series, the 2024 Wellington Colts Division 1 champions will be crowned this Saturday on Jerry Collins Stadium, kick-off 1.15pm and as the curtain-raiser to the Jubilee Cup decider that kicks off on the same ground. Hutt Old Boys Marist will go into the final...
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Aisle be Back: The Ardieocalypse
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- Ardie Savea playing against the Crusaders for the Hurricanes in 2023. [logoshowcase cat_id=”43″] By Kevin McCarthy I think we can survive the Ardieocalypse. In fact, we already did. Which is no mean feat, considering he was World Player of the Year, and still at his peak internationally. There is no one like him as an...
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Midweek college wins for Taita, St Bernard’s and St Pat’s Silverstream in traditionals
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- Thompson Tukapua crosses for a second half try in today’s traditional for St Pat’s Silverstream over St Pat’s Town. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian Stream Steamroll Town St Patrick’s College, Silverstream: 50 (Drew Berg-McLean 4, Preston Moananu, Thompson Tukapua, Elijah Solomona tries; Tukapua 4 con, Liam Slight 2 con, pen) St Patrick’s College, Wellington: 5 (Jazaius Kalolo...
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Tawa College retain Beard Trophy with win over Aotea College
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- Tawa College hooker and captain Malachai Suniula and teammates with the Beard Trophy after defending it for the fourth and final time this year at Porirua Park. Photo: Peter McDonald. Tawa College have locked the Beard Trophy away for another summer after successfully defending it for the fourth and final time of the winter this...
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Jubilee Cup Final – big efforts in losing causes
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- Name the only player to win the Super Bowl MVP after his team lost the game. Winners write history so when this pub quiz question is asked it poses a genuine head-scratcher. The answer is Chuck Howley. The Dallas Cowboys linebacker and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee was MVP in the 1971 Super Bowl...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 080: Ray O’Callaghan
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- Thomas Raymond ‘Ray’ O’Callaghan was a goal-kicking second-five or fullback who left his mark on the local game as a player over several seasons and then as a coach a decade later. O’Callaghan won two Jubilee Cups playing for the Marist Brothers Old Boys club, and later one as Marist’s head coach. These Jubilee Cup...
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Heartbreak and triumph: Rousing Jubilee Cup deciders down the years
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- The Jubilee Cup has been contested every year since 1929. The first winner was University and the most recent was Oriental-Rongotai. This Saturday either Old Boys University or Tawa will lift the Jubilee Cup for the 95th time. Looking back on our Today in History files and some past articles we have done, here is...
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All Blacks v Fiji Stat Attack
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- All Black 1215 Billy Proctor training ahead of his test debut against Fiji. He scored a try in his first international. Photo: NZR media release. The All Blacks met Fiji in San Diego, California this past Saturday. Some facts and figures from the match by Peter Marriott below. New Zealand v Fiji in San Diego:...
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Matchday Ed Chaney Cup semi-final scoring highlights: Tawa (33) v Petone (21)
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- The two teams met at Lyndhurst Park on Saturday in their Premier 2, Division 1 semi-final. Conditions were wet but still and not cold. Tawa made a rocking start to the match, racing to a 20-0 lead. They then kicked their second penalty to go 23-0 up. Petone lost a player to the sin-bin but...
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Sideline Conversions 22 July (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Johnsonville’s Olly Paotonu tries his hand at water polo on Saturday against Paremata-Plimmerton. Saturday’s round was just the second in 16 weeks (the other being round two) played in wet conditions. The weather has generally been kind for club rugby in 2024. Supporters will hope it holds this Saturday. Photo: Stewart Baird. A busy week...
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OBU and Tawa to meet in Jubilee Cup final as Tawa celebrate U85kgs win and two other teams in finals
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- Fulltime at Lyndhurst Park after Tawa have just held off waves of Ories attack under their own posts.
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All aboard for Premier, Premier 2, Colts semi-finals and U85kg and Reserve Grade Division 1 final
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- By Scott MacLean As the headline suggests, it’s a big day for Wellington club rugby clubs, teams and supporters tomorrow. We have major semi-finals for the Premier Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup contests, with matches at the Hutt Recreation Ground, Lyndhurst Park, Evans Bay Park and Ngati Toa Domain. It is also semi-finals for the...
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Wellington club rugby matchday scoring updates 20 July
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- Then there were eight, It’s week 16 of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today. Today is the third round of the Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup competitions for 2024. It is semi-finals Saturday in these top two competitions, plus in the Colts and Premier 2 grades. It is also the finals of the two...
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Brett Manaia and Eagles ready for Jubilee Cup playoffs
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- Brett Manaia with ball in hand in his 100th Premier game recently against Petone. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White The Manaia surname has been a near-constant entry on Hutt Old Boys Marist teamlists for well over a decade. Three of the four Manaia brothers out of St Bernard’s College have appeared in HOBM Premier...
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Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup semi-final ***teamlists****
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- Like our Draws & Results website as of Friday morning, the Jubilee Cup lies in state in its former cabinet at the Hutt Rec after they last won it in 2014. Can the home team win tomorrow and have a shot at winning it again next weekend? Like the song from the 1970s Just When...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 079: Dick Burke
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- Richard ‘Dick’ Burke is one of several prominent players whose careers were curtailed by World War II, but whose playing days finished with a flourish before moving on to a meritorious coaching career. One of the leading players in a middling University team in Wellington club rugby throughout the latter half of the 1930s, Burke...
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Jubilee Cup super semi-finals
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- Campbell Woodmass dives over to score the winning try for Northern United against Tawa in their 2019 semi-final. Photo: Stewart This coming Saturday sees the 2024 Jubilee Cup semi-finals. Tawa and Oriental-Rongotai meet at Lyndhurst Park and Hutt Old Boys Marist and Old Boys University clash at the Hutt Recreation Ground. In an article updated...
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The 2000 NPC Final
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- Wellington won the NPC Premiership in 2000 when they beat Canterbury at a sold-out Lancaster Park, Christchurch, 34-29. With a staggering 36 internationals, including 29 past, present, or future All Blacks, the 2000 NPC final is arguably the greatest NPC match ever played. The ‘Match of the Century’ between Canterbury and Auckland in Christchurch in...
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Norm Hewitt – A Charitable Rugby Titan
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- Norm Hewitt and Richard Cockerill face off in 1997. Photo credit: Gladiator, the Norm Hewitt Story. Adam Julian Former All Black and Wellington Lions captain Norm Hewitt was a dynamic and often inspirational hooker whose off-field fame was later hugely magnified by his charity work and a much-publicised Dancing With the Stars competition win. Hewitt...
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All Blacks v England test series stat attack
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- By Peter Marriott The All Blacks have just completed a two-test series over England, winning both internationals narrowly. A comprehensive Stat Attack follows by Peter Marriott, starting with the second test this past Saturday in Auckland and the first test in Dunedin below that. New Zealand v England in Auckland: Won 24-17 New Zealand and...
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Colts quarterfinal match highlights: Tawa (26) v Petone (17)
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- The two teams met at the Petone Rec on Saturday in their Colts quarter-final. There could only be one winner to progress through to this coming week’s semi-finals and this proved to be Tawa. They came back from 12-5 down at halftime and then 17-5 behind early in the second half to win 26-17. The...
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Sideline Conversions 15 July (some rugby news and information to start the new week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- There was no pot of gold at the bottom of the rainbow on Saturday at the Petone Rec for the home team. Photo: Andy McArthur. Monday morning edition (updates expected): Then there were eight. All four of this coming Saturday’s four Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup semi-finals could go either way, making for a mouthwatering...
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Wellington club rugby matchday scoring updates 13 July
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- Strap into your seats. It’s week 15 of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today. Today is the second round of the Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup competitions for 2024. It is also round two of the Premier Reserve Ed Chaney Cup and HD Morgan Memorial Cup competitions, as well as the championship U85kg rounds,...
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Ories and OBU win epic Jubilee Cup battles to progress to semi-finals
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- Jonty Bird scores a converted try for Ories at the death to lock it up at 20-20 at the Petone Rec. The two teams played 20 minutes of extra time, but the deadlock remained and Ories were the winners because they scored more tries than Petone. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean &...
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Knockout club rugby to bring extra intensity
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- Above: Wainuiomata host Northern United and Avalon are away at Paremata-Plimmerton in tomorrow’s Hardham Cup quarter-finals. By Scott MacLean We’ve reached knockout rugby; Win and move on, lose and you’re done. In the Premier grade, 12 teams are in action tomorrow, and half of them will be playing their final matches of the season tomorrow....
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Eman Sparking up the Rams
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- By Adam Julian Emmanuel Solomona is one of the most charismatic and damaging midfield backs in Wellington Premier club rugby. With his purple hair, mischievous grin, and hulking physical presence, Solomona is affectionately known as the ‘Eman’ – vital for Upper Hutt in their best season since making the Jubilee Cup semi-finals in 2005. The...
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Aisle be Back: The second test in Auckland
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- By Kevin McCarthy You could have spent this week and next week reading or watching all the commentariat about Scott Razor Robertson’s debut as All Blacks coach. So, here’s some more – feel free to agree or more likely disagree. Just remember that tomorrow night there is more evidence, raw data, to feed into the...
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Mitchell McLeod bolts into Wellington Lions
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- Mitchell McLeod gets his pass away for OBU in pre-season in March this year. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White “It’s fair to say if you had asked me at the start of the year it would have been a bit of a shock,” the understated Mitchell McLeod told Club Rugby in conversation this week....
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Polls: Who do you think will win the Jubilee and Hardham Cups
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- There are three weeks to play in the Wellington Premier club rugby competitions. There are six teams left standing in the Jubilee Cup, and after this coming weekend there will be four, then two then we will have the 2024 champion. Who do you think the winner on Saturday 27 July will be? Eight teams...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 078: Roy White
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- Flanker Roy Maxwell White was Wellington’s first post second world war captain, an All Black and later a Wellington selector and leading administrator at his Petone club. White was Wellington’s captain between 1945-48 and he played 10 games and four tests for the All Blacks in 1946-47. He played 67 first class games, spanning 1939-52....
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Matchday scoring highlights: Ed Chaney Cup OBU (33) v Petone (30)
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- The two sides met at Rugby League Park on Saturday in the opening match of the 2024 Ed Chaney Cup second round Premier 2 competition. This was a ‘top 4’ match, between OBU (seeded first) and Petone (fourth), with the winner earning this coming weekend off and the vanquished playing again this Saturday. OBU first...
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Robust family man and rugby coach Willie Leota has passed away aged 46
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- Willie Leota has passed away. Photo supplied. By Adam Julian Robust family man and rugby coach Willie Leota has passed away aged 46. There was a considerable shock in the Wellington rugby community when the Western Suburbs stalwart and leading First XV coach was lost on July 8, 2024. Willie was reserved when discussing his...
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Sideline conversions 8 July (some rugby news from the ground up to start the new week)
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- The HOBM v Johnsonville Presidents teams after their match on Saturday. Rugby was the winner on the day. Photo: Warwick Burke. Monday morning edition: We are now into week 15 of the Wellington club rugby competitions, with just three weeks to play in most grades including this one. In the Premier grade, it’s knockout rugby...
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Top seeds beaten on opening Jubilee Cup weekend, HOBM presented with first round Colts trophy
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- Hemi Fermanis and his Tawa teammates celebrate the second of their three second half tries set up off attacking lineouts this afternoon.
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Championship club rugby starts this Saturday
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- Action from William Jones Park last Saturday, that saw Paremata-Plimmerton beat the home team in a close one. Wainuiomata are back home tomorrow to face Avalon, while Paremata-Plimmerton traverse Wellington to play Ories at the Polo Ground. PHOTO: T-Paul Gale. By Scott MacLean Midday edition – updates to come later this afternoon: This weekend...
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Wellington club rugby matchday scoring updates 6 July
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- This is big. It’s week 14 of the 2024 Wellington club rugby season today. Today is the first round of the Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup compeititons for 2024. It is also round one of the Premier Reserve Ed Chaney Cup and HD Morgan Memorial Cup compeittions, as well as the championship U85kg rounds, while...
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Ha’amea Ahio and Johnsonville looking ahead to the Hardham Cup
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- Johnsonville Premier team players and members on the field after their win over Marist St Pat’s last Saturday. Captain Ha’amea Ahio top, second from the right. Photo: James/Natural Light Photography. By Steven White After a turbulent several weeks highlighted by three last-gasp losses at the death, the Johnsonville Hawks signed off their Swindale Shield campaign...
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Aisle be Back: The Razor era begins
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- Razor enters the room. Photo: Peter McDonald. By Kevin McCarthy Quick question. Who is Scott Robertson playing this weekend in Dunedin? Well duh, Steve Borthwick and England. Which of course is true but let me just posit that in fact Razor is playing Razor. The newly-minted All Black coach is really going up against the...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 077: Des O’Donnell
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- In 1939 St Patrick’s College Rugby Football Club (Old Boys Section) finished equal last in the Wellington club rugby Senior A Championship. Ten years and a world war later they were champions. St Pat’s Old Boys shared the 1949 Jubilee Cup with Petone, a year after the Marist Brothers Old Boys club had won their...
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St Bernard’s College beat Francis Douglas Memorial College in traditional
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- St Bernard’s College’s First XV rolled to a 36-19 win over visiting Francis Douglas Memorial College on Wednesday afternoon. The traditional was played under sunny skies but in heavy conditions following recent rain on the Lower Hutt school’s number one field. St Bernard’s got off to a hot start and established a 10-0 lead, a...
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Ground breakers – Paremata-Plimmerton Women, 1990
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- The 1990 Paremata-Plimmerton women’s team. A reunion is being held for this side this Saturday. By Adam Julian The 1990 Paremata-Plimmerton women’s team was a groundbreaking team that won the Fleurs Cocktail Bar Trophy as Wellington Rugby Football Union’s first official women’s senior champions. There was a competition in 1989 involving Tawa, Northern United, Stokes...
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The 2024 Swindale Shield ‘By the Numbers’
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The curtain has closed on the first round Swindale Shield competition, with the top eight finishing sides now progressing to start the four-week second round Jubilee Cup and the bottom six teams lining up in week one of the Hardham Cup. Some numbers and statistics from the first round Swindale Shield Premier competition (unless stated)...
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New faces in Pride squad for FPC Championship tilt
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- Jackie Patea-Fereti gets her lineout ball down to halfback Milly Mackey in the Pride’s match against Hawke’s Bay last year. This game was at the Hutt Rec, but their home ground this season for three matches is Porirua Park. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Scott MacLean Late last week, Wellington Pride coach Fusi Feaunati named his...
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