Wellington Club Weekly / April 2026
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Cunning Cowie a hit over the hill
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- Above: Wainuiomata fullback Campbell Cowie flying in to score one of his two tries in their fourth round 34-17 win over Marist St Pat’s. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian Campbell Cowie bucks the trend of players quitting senior rugby due to tumbling numbers, other priorities, or a lack of motivation. Wainuiomata is his fourth...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Crusaders in Wellington
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- Ruben Love is set to play his 50th match for the Hurricanes against the Crusaders. Team news below. By Kevin McCarthy About this point in the Super season, I typically indulge in some , unscientific methods to see who has the toughest run in from here in the top 6. That is back of the...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 124: Colin Currie
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- Colin Currie is part of the group of Wellington’s most capped hookers with 63 ‘A’ team appearances between 1959-65. He also spent one season in 1960 playing for Auckland and etched himself into that union’s folklore by winning a late tighthead that led to Auckland’s winning try over Canterbury in a Ranfurly Shield match. In...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Intercepts & Chargedowns Part 2
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- Celebrating community rugby highlights of the past decade. Intercept and chargedown tries can turn games and take the breath out of opposing players and supporters alike. They are also often exciting and thrilling to watch, the sight of a winger coming up in the line and poaching a pass and doing what he or she...
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Hurricanes v Brumbies Stat Attack
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- Fehi Fineanganofo (above) carried on with his try scoring habit becoming just the fourth Hurricanes player to score four tries in a Super Rugby match. The previous instances were by Ben Lam (against the Rebels at Melbourne in 2018), Ngani Laumape (against the Blues at Wellington in 2018, 10 matches after Lam) and Bailyn Sullivan...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Paremata-Plimmerton (39) v Upper Hutt Rams (12)
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- Paremata-Plimmerton stormed home in the second half to beat the Upper Hutt Rams 39-12 in their fourth round Swindale Shield encounter at Ngati Toa Domain on Saturday. The Rams led 12-5 at halftime and were still very much in the game even after Paremata-Plimmerton had run in three quick tries early in the second half...
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Sideline Conversions 27 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Scene at Kilbirnie Park on Saturday in a high scoring match between Tawa and Poneke. Photo: Kinetic Images. We are into the fifth week of the club rugby season and the Swindale Shield and other competitions are just starting to heat up. A look at Premier Swindale Shield fixtures this coming Saturday in Wellington (Premier...
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Bonus point wins the order of the day as OBU remain unbeaten
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- Hooker Dion Lealofi, with loose forwards Braydon Soi and Fa’amanu Anae in close support for Wainuiomata in their convincing win over Wainuiomata today at Evans Bay Park. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean What a difference a week makes. After an awful afternoon last Saturday, the sun shone brightly over today’s Anzac...
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Early season top-of-the-table clash for Anzac Day round
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- The Norths and HOBM teams in close-quarter action in the wet last weekend. Norths return home to host the Wellington Axemen and HOBM are at the Hutt Rec for the first time this year to play Old Boys University in an early season top-of-the-table fixture. Photo: Kinetic Images. By Scott MacLean FIRST EDITION PREVIEW –...
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Wellington club rugby links to live scoring, streams and updates 25 April
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- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 25 April 2026) CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Men’s Premier 2 WRFU Men’s Reserves WRFU Women’s Premier WRFU Restricted U85 WRFU Colts Alternatively, follow live scores and...
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Murphy Taramai bringing experience and energy to the Rams in 2026
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- Above: Co-captains of the Upper Hutt Rams this year – Todd Svenson with ball in hand and Murphy Taramai hot on his heels in support. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White By the time this article is published (Thursday afternoon), Murphy Taramai could well be a proud father for the third time. Taramai’s partner is...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Brumbies and Kirifi’s 100th
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- By Kevin McCarthy Not everyone will agree, but sometimes you’ve got to say a certain piece of building is worth every disputed dollar. At a bit over 600 million dollars , with inevitable turf battles over cost and who pays what, Christchurch and Canterbury tonight get back what many would feel was the beating heart,...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 123: Bill Dick (Petone)
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- Prop Bill Dick was one of those players that binds the club competition and makes it stronger. The reliable, consistent Dick played in Petone’s front row for more than a decade throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s and was later President of Petone. Dick was a four-time Jubilee Cup winner – in 1956,...
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Magic Anzac Day Rounds of the past 25 years
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- Above: Trytime for Ories in their one-point Anzac Day win over Pōneke in 2015. Saturday’s fourth round of the 2026 Swindale Shield will be the fifth time that club rugby has been played on Anzac Day since our records began in 2002 (Anzac Day also fell on a Saturday in 2001 but we don’t have...
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Hurricanes v Chiefs Stat Attack
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- The Hurricanes emerge from the tunnel to play in a recent home match. Photo: Kinetic Images. In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2026. Facts and figures from the Hurricanes’ defeat to the Chiefs in Hamilton below. Round 10 v Chiefs: Lost 17-22 (a.e.t.) The Hurricanes have played the...
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Matchday Scoring highlights: Johnsonville (23) v Wellington (3)
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- Johnsonville beat the Wellington Axemen in frightful conditions at home at Helston Park in their third round Swindale Shield and Mick Kenny Memorial Cup match. Johnsonville scored two first half tries, to first-five Niall Delahunt and to fullback Jacob Walmsley, and then kicked a penalty on halftime to lead 15-3 at the interval. A second...
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Sideline Conversions 20 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- The Northern United and Hutt Old Boys Marist teams in action at Porirua Park on Saturday. Photo: Kinetic Images. A wild Saturday saw most matches played in conditions more akin to mid-July than Mid-April, and a handful spanning at least four grades that didn’t go ahead. The most high profile of these was the Paremata-Plimmerton...
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More close results in third round matches as appalling weather dominates
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- The Johnsonville and Axemen scrums pack down at a sodden Helston Park. Photo: Steven White. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian. There were a series of close results to mark the third round of the Wellington Premier Swindale Shield competition in atrocious conditions that swept through the Wellington region overnight and today. The...
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Swindale Shield set to heat up in round three
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- Action from the UHR Rams – Petone match last week. The Rams are back home hosting Oriental-Rongotai whilst Petone are away playing Old Boys University. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Scott MacLean Friday lunchtime edition – updates expected later this afternoon. Despite the forecast of bad weather for the first time this season, the Swindale Shield...
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Wellington club rugby links to live scoring, streams and updates 18 April
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- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 18 April 2026) Please be aware there is some bad weather around – leave early and bring wet weather gear to your games today. More here: CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. WRFU...
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Friendship & Festivities – Nelson and Wellington Honour First College Rugby Game
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- The match-day programme when Wellington College and Nelson College met in 1976. By Adam Julian When Wellington College hosts Nelson College in a one-off fixture on Saturday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first interprovincial secondary school game of rugby in New Zealand, it will bring together friends, old rivals – and even old...
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Randall Bishop – Tawa’s Mr. Reliable set to play his 200th Premier match
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- Randall Bishop gets his kick away last Saturday in Tawa’s one-point win over Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Steven White Some 15 seasons after making his Premier debut, and three Jubilee Cup titles two more finals appearances and a Horowhenua-Kapiti title later, Randall Bishop is set to run out to play his 200th match for...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Chiefs
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- The Hurricanes come out to play in front of their teeming supporters last Saturday at home against the Blues. By Kevin McCarthy The demise of Moana Pasifika will be a sad story – but as Shakespeare might have said once, ‘tis a tragedy foretold. It’s also a canary in the coal mine for Super Rugby....
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 122: Bob Lendrum
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- Not to be confused with the player of the same name and first-five who played 131 first-class games for Counties and one test for the All Blacks in 1973, Bob Lendrum’s first-class career went no higher than Wellington. Robert Edward Lendrum was a Wellington representative in 1963 and 1964, and a Wellington B representative up...
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Goal kicking forwards in rugby
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- It is mostly the backs that take goal kicks in rugby, but what about goal-kicking forwards? We put together the following article looking at some of these place-kicking players from the pack. Some international examples, followed by a few club rugby players. Let us know who we missed out. Brian Black (Great Britain) The 1930...
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Hurricanes v Blues Stat Attack
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- In association with Hurricanes statistics compiler Peter Marriott, the Stat Attack returns in 2026. Facts and figures from the Hurricanes’ win over the Blue in Wellington below. Round 9 v Blues: Won 42-19 These two sides played the first-ever Super Rugby match back on 1 March 1996 at Palmerston North. The Blues won 36-28 and...
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Swindale Shield Matchday Highlights Round Two: Tawa (26) v Pare-Plim (25)
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- Round Two of the 2026 Swindale Shield came to Lyndhurst Park where home team Tawa met Paremata-Plimmerton. Coming off a hefty first round loss to Petone, it took Tawa just a few minutes to score their opening try of the year. Paremata-Plimmeerton responded and eventually both teams were deadlocked 12-12 just before halftime when the...
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Sideline Conversions 13 April (some news and information to start the week)
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- Action from Old Boys University’s Peter Dunford Cup win over Wainuiomata on Saturday. Monday morning edition: The first full weekend of club rugby was played on Saturday. And we got lucky with the weather. Saturday was fine and warm but 24 hours later it was grey and wet. It’s the second week of school holidays...
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Axemen raise the half century as first round form reverses for some teams
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- Above: Losi Filipo dives over to score one of two tries for Petone in their tight win over the Upper Hutt Rams. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian An opening win of the competition for the Wellington Axemen against Pōneke and generally much closer matches than last week were two...
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Wellington club rugby links to live scoring, streams and updates 11 April
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- LIVE scoring updates Wellington club rugby (on Saturday 11 April 2026) CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and lower grade Scoring and fulltime scores updated as they happen. WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Men’s Premier 2 WRFU Men’s Reserves WRFU Women’s Premier WRFU Restricted U85 WRFU Colts Alternatively, follow live scores and get...
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All grades underway in Wellington club rugby tomorrow
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- Wainuiomata will be seeking their second straight win to start the year when they host Old Boys University in Round Two of the Swindale Shield, while Avalon are at home for the first time and playing Hutt Old Boys Marist. Photo: Hugh Pretorius. By Scott MacLean Welcome to the first full weekend of the club...
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Where are they Now: Martin Leslie (Petone and Scotland)
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- By Adam Julian The recent Six Nations broke many scoring records and was regarded as one of the best ever. Noteworthy was Scotland’s 50-40 win over eventual champions France. In 1999, Scotland beat France in a similarly dramatic match in Paris, dominated by Petone legend Martin Leslie. Petone started the 2026 Swindale Shield with a...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Blues in Wellington
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- By Kevin McCarthy I said a year ago that somehow, I thought Scott Robinson would get his main man Richie Mo’ounga some how on the plane to South Africa for the great Trek. The duo would be on tour, despite the niceties in the NZR eligibility rules. Well, Scott Robinson strolled past me on Lambton...
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Barker College make fast start on three-game tour
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- By Adam Julian Barker College opened its three-game New Zealand tour with a 40-36 victory over St Patrick’s College, Silverstream on Wednesday. The North Sydney independent Anglicans stunned the 2025 Wellington Premiership winners by blasting to a 26-0 lead in under 10 minutes. Not since 2017, when Silverstream was caned by national championships, Hastings Boys’...
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Pioneers of rugby in Wellington 121: Bill Freeman
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- One of Wellington rugby’s most famed coaches, Bill Freeman was Wellington A representative coach between 1964-70. Under his coaching, Wellington teams enjoyed several memorable wins over the space of a few years, including twin victories over the touring Springboks and British and Irish Lions in 1965 and 1966, and for introducing some all-time great players...
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Schwalger leading from the front for Wellington College in 2026
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- Z’kdeus Schwalger in action in a recent early season fixture. Photo supplied. By Adam Julian With his big hits and big hair, Z’kdeus Schwalger is a startling rugby personality. The Wellington College loose forward is determined to deliver a showstopping performance when his school hosts Nelson College in a one-off fixture on April 18. The...
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Swindale Shield Matchday Scoring Highlights: Round One MSP (58) v Norths (22)
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- Round One of the 2026 Swindale Shield came to Porirua Park where home team Northern United met Marist St Pat’s for the Maurice Standish Cup. In breezy conditions, home side Norths scored first and late led 12-7 during the first half. MSP got their noses ahead 19-12 by halftime. Early in the second half a...
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Sideline Conversions 6 April (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Upper Hutt Rams celebrate a job well done, beating Poneke 66-32 in their Swindale Shield season opener. Is this the year of the Ram? Photo: Tane Nathan/Kinetic Images. The first weekend of Wellington club rugby saw seven entertaining Premier fixtures played throughout the region and the opening round of Premier 2 games. There were Premier...
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Paremata-Plimmerton pip first round defending champions, second half blowouts elsewhere
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- Ethan Webster-Nonu scores a key try against his former side today in round one of the Swindale Shield. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Oriental-Rongotai played through last year’s first round Wellington club rugby Premier Swindale Shield with 13 straight bonus point wins. In today’s 2026 season opener, Ories were pipped at...
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Wellington club rugby 4 April: Live scoring and updates, radio and livestreams
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- CLICK on the link directly below for live Swindale Shield and Harper Lock Shield Premier 2 live Scoring on 4 April 2026: WRFU Men’s Premier WRFU Men’s Premier 2 Round 1 teamlists at this link in the line below (note we are aware of an issue with all teamlists not displaying correctly on mobiles or tablets,...
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Club Rugby A-Z 2026
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- Supporters was Finals Day last year. Photo Peter McDonald. Some of the themes that could play out this year in club and community rugby are below in the annual A-Z. By Scott MacLean It’s a bit of fun we have before the season gets underway. Here’s the 11th edition of our season preview in A-Z...
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Easter Saturday start for Premier and Premier 2 club rugby in Wellington
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- By Scott MacLean & Steven White And so it begins again, the 147th season of club rugby in the nation’s capital. It’s a staggered start to the season with only the Premier and Premier 2 underway tomorrow. The remaining club grades – Colts, Women’s, 85s, Reserve, and Presidents – start next week. Tomorrow’s 100th season...
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Wellington club rugby Gains & Losses 2026
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- One of our most awaited columns in the lead-up to the season and a traditional story as featured in the newspaper in former years is the Gains & Losses, tracking player movement in and out of clubs and the province. This year is no exception, and this edition looks like a particularly bumper one! ________________________________________________________________________...
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Coach Rasch and HOBM Eagles looking to defend title in 2026
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- HOBM Head Coach Otto Rasch with his family and the Eagles on the field after last July’s Jubilee Cup Final. Photo: Stewart Baird. By Adam Julian Otto Rasch cuts an imperious figure as a coach, physically imposing and forthright. He’s got Hutt Old Boys Marist humming, too. In February, the 2025 Jubilee Cup champions and...
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