Wellington Club Weekly / March 2024
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Some players to watch in club rugby 2024
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- By Scott MacLean A regular part of our pre-season coverage has been our selection of players to watch. As usual, we’ve taken a look at the likely Premier squads and picked one player to keep an eye on across the season from each of them. This year’s group are mostly impressive youngsters with a couple...
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Sideline Conversions 1 April (some news and information to start the week)
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- Above: When Faifili Levave (2007) and Victor Vito (2008) raised the Swindale Shield. The new season kicks off this Saturday. Who will be crowned the 2024 champion? This is it. The start of the first week of the season for Wellington’s clubs. For the first time in several years, all WRFU’s grades go off together...
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Petone and College Old Boys secure big wins on a Good Friday for club rugby
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- Petone’s centre is congratulated by his teammates after scoring the game’s first try in his team’s win over Ponsonby today in Auckland. Screenshot image credit to the livestream. View a replay of the game on Facebook HERE By Adam Julian & Steven White It was a Good Friday for club rugby today for some teams...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Highlanders…and the Crusaders win
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- By Kevin McCarthy Everyone’s talking about the Hurricanes. I really don’t want to and would advise you not to either. At this stage, the most we should say is that a lower North Island team is faring well at an early point in a long competition. We wish them well. As some may have noted...
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Isikeli Fukofuka Looking to Spoil Ponsonby Party
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- By Adam Julian When it comes to club rugby in New Zealand, Ponsonby in Auckland is as big as it gets. Ponsonby have won 35 Gallaher Shields since 1924 (it was presented in 1922) and 15 championships before that: four in pre-ARFU days, six under the club format 1883-91, three in the District days 1891-1909,...
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Easter Weekend Rugby preview
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- A mostly light weekend of rugby this Easter Weekend for Wellington clubs as most hunker down and put the finishing touches on their preparations ahead of the start of all grades together next Saturday, 6 April. In fact, there is one solitary pre-season match scheduled in Wellington on Saturday, and that is between the Upper...
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Great days in club rugby 006: The comeback kings
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- Josh Houston-Tupou scores for the UH Rams in their 26-25 win over Marist St Pat’s in 2019. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024 as part of our ongoing celebration of...
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Hurricanes v Rebels Stat Attack
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- By Peter Marriott The Hurricanes went 5/0 this past weekend to start the 2024 season. Some facts and figures from the game here by Peter Marriott. Week 5 v Rebels: Won 54-28 The Hurricanes and the Rebels have now met on 12 occasions. The Hurricanes have won 11 matches to theRebels one. There have been...
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Some School Leavers to watch in club rugby in 2024
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- Wellington College players and supporters celebrate winning the Quadrangular Tournament last winter – many players involved in matches like this will be entering the senior club rugby ranks in 2024. Photo: Andy McArthur. The Wellington club rugby competition consistently produces new talent. From Joe Karam and Grant Batty in the early 1970s to Ardie Savea...
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Sideline Conversions 25 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Some pre-season action between the Upper Hutt Rams and Oriental-Rongotai on Saturday.Photo by Peter McDMore of these images HERE Monday morning edition: The weeks are counting down to days to the start of the Wellington club rugby season, which kicks off with all grades together on Saturday 6 April. With Easter this weekend most clubs...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Rebels and the BS
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- By Kevin McCarthy Uneasy sits the crown. Or less Shakespearean, when are the Hurricanes going to have their banana skin game. The BS game, of course, is the one that they surely can’t lose, yet by season’s end will be the deciding factor in say, coming first, or fourth – or worse. When you’re top...
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Early season club rugby steps up a gear this weekend
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- It’s a busy day tomorrow on the rugby fields for most Wellington clubs as preparations continue and squads are finalised ahead of the start of the competition season in a fortnight. There are several inter-club Premier fixtures around Wellington on the first weekend of autumn, while Poneke travels to New Plymouth to play Tukapa in...
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Great days in club rugby 005: Leading from the Front
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- Above: In 2018 Old Boys University captain Jonathan Fuimaono helped steer his side’s ship to their third Jubilee Cup title in four years with a 37-31 win in the final over Northern United. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested...
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Hurricanes v Crusaders Stat Attack
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- Cam Roigard makes a break in their previous match against the Blues. By Peter Marriott Some key facts and figures from the fourth round Super Rugby match in Christchurch between the Hurricanes and the Crusaders. Week 4 v Crusaders: Won 14-10 The Hurricanes and the Crusaders have now met on 45 occasions. The Hurricanes have...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 065: Cecil Ongley
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- Cecil Ongley was an integral member of Poneke and Wellington representative teams throughout the 1930s and was a three-time All Black trialist without cracking international rugby. Ongley was involved in a number of big games over several seasons, For both Poneke and Wellington. He is variously listed as a ‘forward’ but it seems that he...
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Sideline Conversions 18 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Monday morning edition: Week four of pre-season 2024 and kickoff for the Horowhenua-Kapiti Ramsbotham Cup competition coming right up. Look out for our preview at the end of the week canvassing what’s coming up next Saturday, but there are at least five inter-club Premier fixtures between Wellington clubs scheduled. Poneke also travel to New Plymouth...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Crusaders tonight
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- The Hurricanes celebrate a try in last week’s win over the Blues. Tonight they play a down – but never out – Crusaders side in Christchurch in the fourth round of the Super Rugby competition. By Kevin McCarthy If not now, when. The question for the Hurricanes, top of the table, as they head to...
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Club Rugby pre-season schedules for this weekend
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- Wedged between the Ides of March today and St Patrick’s Day on Sunday is the third Saturday of pre-season club rugby matches and off-field training and events for Wellington’s 14 Premier clubs and clubs further up the line in Lower North Island Hurricanes territory. There is just one scheduled pre-season interclub Premier fixture between two...
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Great days in club rugby 004: Brothers in Arms
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- A family affair. Several sets of brothers in the the Tawa club that won both the Premier Jubilee Cup (pictured here) and the Premier 2 Ed Chaney Cup in 2013. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington....
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 064: Leslie Arthur Thomas
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- LA “Shag” Thomas played several seasons for both Petone in club rugby and Wellington in representative rugby between 1917-28 and two years in the Hawke’s Bay in 1920-21. Thomas won four Wellington Senior A Club Championship titles with Petone, including three in succession 1922-24, and he made the All Blacks in 1925 and played three...
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Hurricanes v Blues Stat Attack
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- 4,000 points. With this try to Riley Higgins, the Hurricanes surpassed that marker of points in Super Rugby. The total now stands at 4,003. points. By Peter Marriott Some key facts and figures from the third round Super Rugby match at Wellington Stadium between the Hurricanes and the Blues. Week 3 v Blues: Won 29-21...
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Sideline Conversions 11 March (some news and information to start the week)
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- Hutt Old Boys have got their season off to a positive start, winning the annual NZ Marist Spillane tournament in Taupo. PHOTO credit: HOBM Facebook page. Watch a full replay of the final HERE Week three of club rugby pre-season rugby coming up. More details in Friday’s preview, but some Premier pre-season matches at a...
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Leilani Perese and that Poua Haka
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- By Adam Julian The Hurricanes Poua haka, and reaction to it, has been one of the biggest news stories in New Zealand this week and one of the few times in women’s rugby history that the sport has landed itself on the front page of newspapers and television networks. Social media has gone berserk with...
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Great days in club rugby 003: when the defending champions’ colours were lowered
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- Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024 as part of our ongoing celebration of community rugby in Wellington, we have broken into the ‘Today in Club Rugby History’ files, selected a...
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Aisle be Back: First home game for Hurricanes this Saturday
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- By Kevin McCarthy What is it with the Hurricanes and early season controversies? Last year it was Ardie having a brain explosion that earnt him a breather – this year it’s Jordie sitting out three matches (although his citing has no controversy around it). But the absolute winner of the contest of course goes to...
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Club Rugby pre-season resumes tomorrow for Wellington and lower NI clubs
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- Week two of club rugby pre-season matches sees four inter-club matches in Wellington involving Swindale Shield sides, a quadruple header at North Park in Petone and a handful of matches further afield including the annual New Zealand Marist Spillane tournament held in Taupo. A brief preview of what’s happening tomorrow follows. Staying in Wellington, the...
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Hurricanes v Reds Stat Attack
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- By Peter Marriott Week 2 v Reds: Won 38-33 (GP) The Hurricanes and the Reds have now met on 26 occasions. The Hurricanes have won 20 matches to the Reds six. There have been no draws. The Hurricanes have beaten the Reds more often than they have any other Australian side: Next in line are...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 063: William Reedy
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- William ‘Bill’ Reedy was a successful club rugby player at the turn of the last century who won Senior Championship titles with both Petone and Athletic, played for Wellington across several seasons and played two tests for the All Blacks in 1908. Reedy earned his two test caps playing in his usual position of hooker...
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McEvedy Shield stars and future rugby players
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- By Adam Julian & Steven White The 101st McEvedy Shield athletics meeting is being held at Newtown tomorrow. In modern times, the event is a four-school competition between Wellington College, St Patrick’s College Kilbirnie, St Patrick’s College Silverstream and Rongotai College. As such, a roll call of future well known club and representative rugby players...
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Sideline Conversions 4 March (some news and information to start the week)
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- Above: In the absence of any rugby photos from this past weekend, we’ve gone back to the summer of 2007 for the headline shot! Who can remember beach rugby at Oriental Bay, won by the beach’s namesake Oriental-Rongotai, who beat Hutt Old Boys Marist in the final. Monday morning edition: The second weekend of pre-season...
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