Wellington Club Weekly / January 2026
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Club Rugby Compilation Highlights Series: Intercepts & Chargedowns Part 1
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Club Rugby Compilation Series: Tries by Halfbacks Part 1
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: “The Jubilee Mystery”
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- By Touchline The 20-year period between the two World Wars saw the introduction of “the Jubilee Cup” to Wellington’s senior rugby championship. But despite the generally accepted narrative of its origin being in 1929, new information obtained by Touchline suggests its true beginnings are shrouded in the dense tobacco-smoke and oft heady beer-fumes of local...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Long-range Strikes Part 1
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: Shooting Stars
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- A look at some of the many players and personalities of the local game who packed in plenty in short careers that were cut short due to such factors as injury, death or transferring to rugby league. Going back to the start of the game in the latter years of the nineteenth century, There would...
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Excitement machine Grant Batty passes away in Australia
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- Grant Batty scores his final try, for the All Blacks against the British and Irish Lions in Wellington in June 1977. Grant Batty, who passed away in Australia late last week aged 74 was the excitement machine of his era. Batty was a pocket-rocket try-scoring wonder who scored 109 tries in 142 first-class matches in...
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Tenacious Wellington Flyers defend Bula 7s title
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- By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur Several times across their final three knockout games of the day, the Wellington Flyers had to dig deep. On each occasion they responded with a timely turnover, tackle out wide or an offload to a support player backing up, seeing them win all these matches and defending their...
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Bula 7s tournament at William Jones Park on Saturday
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- Supporters starved of action over the festive season will get their rugby fix all day at William Jones Park on Saturday. The sixth annual Bula 7s tournament has drawn a bumper 16-team field to kick-start the year in rugby, but being on one field means that it is scheduled to go into the evening hours...
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Club Rugby Highlights Series: Cutting Loose Part 1 –
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- Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. Over the break, Club Rugby collated and sorted all our video clip highlights that were recorded and saved in the decade between the 2016-2025 seasons. As we continue add to these clips to our library, it is intended that they will all be posted online – but this is...
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Two decades and counting covering community rugby
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- Steven White is a leading rugby exponent in the Wellington region, renowned for his passion and dedication to grassroots rugby. Since 2005, he has run the well-known website clubrugby.nz, where he serves as editor, reporter, content creator and historian. Club Rugby is the only website in New Zealand dedicated exclusively to covering senior club rugby, First...
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Club Rugby Summer Series: Late Bloomers and Slow Burners
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- By Club Rugby contributors The buzz of watching and following young talent excites fans and academy managers alike. But some players come on later and mature into great players. Below are some examples of such players, from previous eras to modern times, who came into their prime a bit later than many others. As always,...
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They won club rugby titles in more than one province
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- By Steven White & Adam Julian The recent passing of Mick (Stu) Bremner, who won Auckland and Canterbury club rugby titles as well as winning Wellington’s Jubilee Cup with University a decade apart as a player and coach prompted us to think which other players have achieved similar feats. There are many such instances, particularly...
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