Year: 2019

Short passes – 24 January

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  Short passes is Club Rugby’s  news in briefs and noticeboard column for 2019. It is anticipated that this will be a regular midweek post when the season kicks into gear. If you have news, notices or want a shout-out for anything email editor@clubrugby.co.nz or send us a message on social media. Club

Wellington’s “Ghost” Rugby Clubs Part 12: Karori RFC

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“AN UNENTHUSIASTIC PLAYER IS BETTER ON THE BANK” The Karori Rugby Football Club (1876-1983) By Gordon Noble-Campbell. The No. 1 field at Ian Galloway (formerly “Western”) Park, locally and colloquially known as “the Cage”, has been the scene of many titanic battles of the Western Suburbs Rugby Football Club, arguably Wellington’s most important

Wellington’s “Ghost” Rugby Clubs Part 11: Wadestown RFC

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  Photo above: Soon to be selected All Black, Neven McEwan in 1955, left, with Australian sporting great, Ken McGregor. A MOST VALUABLE MEANS OF CIVILISING YOUNG MEN “The Wadestown Club” By Gordon Noble-Campbell. On 10 February 1910, the then Mayor of Wellington, Dr Alfred Kingcome Newman, remarked when opening the new Wadestown clubrooms on Pitt