Wellington Club Weekly / October 2024
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Aisle be Back: The NPC win, All Blacks v England and TJ Clarke joining Hurricanes
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy Three extraordinary things happened in the past week. Extra time was needed for the Lions to clinch the NPC title. An All Black on the northern tour did something naughty. And the haka was again relitigated. Okay I lied, only the first was extraordinary. The other two, just vanilla. The final dished...
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Club sevens season underway this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington club rugby sevens series and the Hurricanes schools tournament are both on tomorrow, in Wellington and in Feilding. Wellington club sevens The first leg of two Wellington club rugby sevens tournaments is being played tomorrow at the twin venues of Rugby League Park and Te Whaea Artificial. The men’s tournament is on Rugby...
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Wellington Lions v Bay of Plenty FINAL Stat Attack
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- The Wellington Lions defeated Bay of Plenty 23-20 in the 2024 NPC final. Some facts and figures from the final by Peter Marriott below. Final v Bay of Plenty: Won 23-20 (In Extra Time) The NPC Finals format was introduced in 1992 and since then Wellington has been involved in 13 First Division/Premiership Final matches....
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Sideline Conversions 29 October (some rugby news and happenings on a Tuesday)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Jackson Garden-Bachop enters the field for his 100th match for Wellington on Saturday. +++++ A monumental effort by Hutt International Boys School (HIBS) to win the Wellington Condor Sevens title yesterday. HIBS had not entered the tournament for 11 years but their competitiveness in the Premiership was reason alone to be somewhat weary. HIBS lost...
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HIBS win Open Boys Condors, St Mary’s defend both girls titles, Silverstream U15 boys winners
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- – By Steven White Results at: For results visit: https://www.collegesport.org.nz/newsarticle/146843?newsfeedId=1578927 More photos and video content to come. It’s HIBS. Hutt International Boys’ School are the 2024 Open Boys Condor Sevens champions. HIBS won the Christian Cullen Cup for the first time wit a resounding 19-17 win over last year’s winners Scots College in the final...
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Condor Sevens at Naenae College today – no live streaming but link to live results
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- Monday morning updates: The 2024 Condor Sevens tournament is at Naenae College all day today (Monday). There is no live streaming today. There are live results online – to view and keep track of these, visit our friends at College Sport Wellington at this link here: https://www.collegesport.org.nz/newsarticle/146843?newsfeedId=1578927 We will come in hot later on today...
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Wellington Lions win sixth NPC title in 100-minute final
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Wellington Lions won their sixth National Provincial Championship title in an extra time thriller in the wet at Wellington Stadium this afternoon. A penalty in the 92nd minute to replacement first-five Callum Harkin, 30 seconds after he had come on to the field, was the difference as Wellington 23-20. Scores had been locked up...
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Century up for Jackson Garden-Bachop in NPC Final
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- By Adam Julian Jackson Garden-Bachop turns 100 today, the first Wellington player since Tana Umaga in 2007 to reach that milestone. Garden-Bachop attended the 37-7 win against Manawatū on September 11 in front of 14,081 at Sky Stadium, marking Tana’s centenary. He is proud to join a family friend, and 21 others, in triple figures....
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Condors set for Monday flight
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- The curtain drops for good on the College rugby season in Wellington on Monday, with the Condor Sevens being played in its now traditional location at Naenae College. It’s a bumper field this year with 31 teams entered, the most since before the word ‘Covid’ became a thing in our lives, making for a very...
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Kyle Preston and Lions focused on NPC final this coming Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Steven White Kyle Preston is like a cat on a hot tin roof. Well, he is a Wellington Lion, his form is strong and he’s scored some sizzling tries in recent weeks, and last time we spoke to him 18 months ago he was spending his week days working as a roofer. Cheesy introductions...
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Wellington Lions playing in 14th NPC final on Saturday
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Julian Savea celebrates the match-sealing try in extra time in the Lions’ 100-minute 59-45 Championship final win over Bay of Plenty in 2017. By Adam Julian & Steven White The Wellington Lions are hosting the Bay of Plenty Steamers in Saturday’s 2024 National Provincial Championship decider. The NPC semi-final and final series was introduced in...
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Wellington Lions v Waikato semi-final stat attack
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- The Wellington Lions beat Waikato 29-24 in Saturday’s NPC semi-final and will host Bay of Plenty in the final. Some facts and figures and statistics from the semi-final below, by Peter Marriott. Semi-final v Waikato: Won 29-24 The Wellington Lions and Waikato have now met on 48 occasions in the NPC. Wellington has won 28...
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Club Rugby Awards of the Year 2024
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- By Club Rugby contributors In a semi-regular tradition, we look back at the club and college seasons, and a mix of the serious and not-quite-so. Team of the Year: Tawa Under 85kg Ducks After coming up short in last years final, the Ducks made no race of the lightweight comp this time around with a...
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Sideline Conversions 21 October (some news and information to start the week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Welcome to finals week…NPC finals week. The Wellington Lions have a shot at shooting for their sixth NPC Division 1/Premiership title when they host the Bay of Plenty Steamers in the final at Wellington Stadium this coming Saturday. It is a daytime match, kicking off at 3.05pm. The Lions were previously NPC champions in 1978,...
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Aisle be Back: Sexton, the All Blacks and the NPC semi-finals
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy I guess we’ve all met Johnny Sexton at some point. As Noel Gallagher described brother Liam: He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup. If you haven’t heard, Rieko Ioane last year delivered a pithy farewell to the Irish and world great as his side were trumped in an epic quarter final at...
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Lions hosting semi-final on Saturday and charity game on Sunday
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- Two different types of matches in Wellington this weekend, both important in their own way. On Saturday night, the Wellington Lions host the Waikato Mooloo in their NPC semi-final, and on Sunday the Āhuru Mōwai Trust team play the Parliamentary Sports Trust selection in a SOCKtober charity match. The Wellington Lions will host a team...
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New rugby recruitment tool for both players and clubs recently launched
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Oval15.com is not just another recruitment tool. It is a revolutionary platform designed to disrupt the traditional methods of rugby player recruitment. In an industry where the standard practice has long been sending CVs and hoping for the best, Oval15 offers a powerful, new streamlined alternative that places control of the recruitment process directly in the...
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Best & Fairest competitions teams of the season
- Wellington Club Weekly
- One of our regular post-season pieces is to compile teams based on the Men’s Billy Wallace and Women’s Erin Rush Best & Fairest standings, representing the outstanding and consistent performers across the many weeks of the club season. With the winners – Men’s joint-winners Sam Clarke from Paremata-Plimmerton and Marist St Pats’ Milan Kriletich and...
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Wellington Lions v Counties Manukau Quarter-final stat attack
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington beat Counties Manukau in their NPC quarter-final at home last Friday night. Facts and figures from the game below by By Peter Marriott. Quarter-final v Counties Manukau: Won 29-14 Wellington and Counties Manukau have now met on 39 occasions in the NPC. Wellington has won 24 of those matches, Counties Manukau has won 13....
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Sideline Conversions 14 October (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Random celebration shot – Upper Hutt wins the Hardham Cup in 2006. Random future All Black back left? Monday morning edition: When the WRRA appointments page goes quiet. The season is on a fast-track to its conclusion, with just the Wellington Lions versus Waikato NPC semi-final to come this coming weekend. Both semi-finals are scheduled...
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Aisle be Back: End of year tour, the NPC quarter-finals and Australian rugby
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Kevin McCarthy Shock and horror, The All Blacks are taking Sam Cane and TJ Perenara on the Northern tour. They’ll probably play three games each – maybe less. That means two young players will miss out on international experience. Well, quite probably – just ask Billy Proctor – will get to spend a month...
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Clarke, Kriletich, Su’a-Smith win Best & Fairest Awards
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- Paremata-Plimmerton’s Sam Clarke, Marist St Pats’ Milan Kriletich, and Petone’s Keira Su’a-Smith took home the feature club awards from last night’s Wellington Rugby awards. Clarke and Kriletich were joint-winners of the mens Billy Wallace crown, while Su’a-Smith was the outright winner of the women’s Erin Rush Trophy. Clarke and Kriletich each tallied 19 points across...
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The Impact of New Zealand Laws and Regulations on Gambling
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Every country is responsible for setting its own gambling rules and regulations, but it is fair to say that New Zealand has left things for some time as it hasn’t set up any new regulations or laws relating to gambling and online gambling since 2003. Think how much has changed in that time! The last...
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Wellington Lions v Hawke’s Bay Stat Attack
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- Above: Akira Ieremia makes a break, chased by Hawke’s Bay front rowers Tyrone Thompson and Joel Hintz. Ieremia started for the Lions at blindside flanker for the first time. The Wellington Lions defeated Hawke’s Bay 46-28 in the last round of the 2024 NPC on Saturday. The win and other results saw the Lions qualify...
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Sideline Conversions 7 October (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Lookout the Bus aka Tyson aka Julian Savea is coming through. The Oriental-Rongotai wing and teammates celebrate Wellington’s 7th and final try of the afternoon on Saturday as Northern United’s Kienan Higgins and Wainuiomata’s Sam Smith in Hawke’s Bay colours can only watch on in despair. The Magpies had earlier led 21-0. Photo: Mike Lewis. ...
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New Zealand Schools fall to Australia U18s, NZ Barbarians Schools beat Samoa Schools
- Wellington Club Weekly
- By Adam Julian. Australia Under-18: 38 (Rex Bassingthwaighte, Joshua Takai, Angus Grover, Nick Conway, Kingsley Uys, Heamasi Makasini tries; Jonty Fowler 4 con) New Zealand Schools: 31 (Mason Verster, Siale Pahulu, Charlie Wallis, Penalty Try, Aidan Spratley; Verster 2 con) HT: 19-12 A polished and powerful Australia has won the Trans Tasman Trophy for the first time since 2019, toppling...
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Lions to host Hawke’s Bay and Heartland teams vying for semi-finals
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- By Scott MacLean & Steven White The sole fixture in Wellington tomorrow is the ninth and final NPC round-robin match at Wellington Stadium between the Wellington Lions and Hawke’s Bay, while Wellington’s immediate neighbours, Horowhenua-Kapiti and Wairarapa-Bush are vying for Lochore Cup semi-finals spots next week. The Lions could wind up anywhere from first to...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 090: Graham Mexted
- Wellington Club Weekly
- No. 8 Graham Mexted represented Wellington on 38 occasions from the early to mid-1950s, and played six matches including one test for the All Blacks. Like some other players of this era, Mexted had a meteoric rise, from one week playing what today is Premier 2 club rugby, to the next playing for Wellington B...
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Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay win Hurricanes U16 tournament A and B Divisions
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- Members of the winning Hawke’s Black team after their narrow Division A final win over Manawatu. By Steven White Hawke’s Bay Black (Division A) and Poverty Bay (Division B) are the 2024 Hurricanes Youth Council’s U16 champions. Hawke’s Bay Black won the Division A final at Levin’s Playford Park with a hard-fought 13-8 victory over...
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Wins for New Zealand Schools and Australian U18 sides in Hamilton openers
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- By Adam Julian Tomorrow’s stars today are in action for Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Samoa in a series of international fixtures in Hamilton and Fiji. The Australia Under-18 team started their tour of New Zealand with an impressive 57-47 win against the New Zealand Barbarians Under-18s while the New Zealand Schools thrashed hapless Samoa 91-5...
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