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New Zealand Rugby media release: To help secure the future of the sport, New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and Provincial Unions have today cancelled all provincial representative rugby tournaments below the National Provincial Championship Farah Palmer Cup. The cancellations include the 2020 Heartland Championship, Jock Hobbs Memorial National Under 19 Tournament,National Sevens Tournament
Month: March 2020
This week in club rugby history: 30 March – 5 April
Try-time for Old Boys University against Northern United when they met last year. Norths went on to win the game with a last-gasp try (see below). Some highlights of what happened this week in history in Wellington club rugby. 30 March 2019: Livewire Northern United first five-eighth Esi Komaisavai intercepts a pass in
Club Rugby second round matches in photos
Above: Johnsonville's Kane Le'aupepe and Wellington's Vaea Fifita clash in the lineout in their 2015 second round Swindale Shield match. Wellington won 17-12 for the Mick Kenny Memorial Cup. Ordinarily, the second round of the 2020 Swindale Shield would have been played this Saturday. These are not ordinary times and hopefully this
This Week in club rugby history: 23-29 March
Above: Referee Gordon doles out a yellow card to a Poneke player in their 35-35 draw with the Upper Hutt Rams in the opening round of 2015 at Trentham Memorial Park. Plus some highlights from last week: 17 MARCH 2018: Defending Swindale Shield and Jubilee Cup champions Old Boys University send out an ominous warning
NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UPDATE ON RUGBY IN NEW ZEALAND
NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UPDATE ON RUGBY IN NEW ZEALAND Following the New Zealand Government’s lifting of the coronavirus alert status to level 3, all rugby in New Zealand will be suspended for the foreseeable future. SANZAAR, New Zealand Rugby (NZR), New Zealand’s Super Rugby Clubs and the New Zealand Rugby Players Association