Most points in the Premier club rugby match

Last Saturday, Wainuiomata bounced back from a heavy loss to Norths to beat Paremata-Plimmerton 63-19.

As part of Wainuiomata’s points was an individual haul of 38 by second five-eighth Tyler Tane. The former Marist St Pat’s and Upper Hutt Rams midfielder cut through to score four tries and he converted all nine conversions.

Tane’s 38 points is the third most in a match by an individual in a Men’s Premier club rugby match in Wellington since this website’s records started in full in 2006 and the most since Poneke’s  Tauasosi Tuimavave and Hutt Old Boys Marist’s Brandyn Laursen 50-point hauls against then competition minnows Rimutaka in 2013.

At a glance, the leading five individual points hauls in Wellington Premier rugby between 2005-2020 (up to and including round 8 2020) were: Brandyn Laursen 52 points (HOBM v Rimutaka 2013), Sosi Tuimavavae 50 points (Poneke v Rimutaka 2013), Tyler Tane 38 points (Wainuiomata v Paremata-Plimmerton 2020), James So’oialo 35 points (Tawa v Paremata-Plimmerton 2015) and Trevor Marama 33 points (Ories v Avalon 2011).

From the start of 2006 to Round 8 of the 2020 Swindale Shield, there have been 1,492 Men’s Premier club rugby matches – Swindale Shield and Jubilee Cup games, not including Premier 2 Hardham Cup games – and there have been 163 instances of a player scoring 20+ points in a Premier match.

In this 15-year period, the season that saw the most 20 plus point individual hauls was 2013 with 23. This included eight against Rimutaka, which also featured the two individual half centuries that were posted (see below). The next most prolific season for hot individual points scoring was 2009 with 17, followed by 2015 with 16.

The fifth round of the 2008 Swindale Shield saw Daniel Kirkpatrick score 21 points for Petone in a 51-20 win over Poneke, Fa’atonu Fili score 20 points for MSP in a 60-15 win over Ories, Damian Madsen accumulate 20 points for Tawa in a 25-27 defeat to OBU and James Kusel rack up 30 points in HOBM’s 85-0 win over Avalon.

Wellington Premier club rugby 2006-2020 (up to and including Round 8 of the Swindale Shield): 25-29 points in a match:

25 points:

2007 Swindale Shield
Round 9 Norths 65 – Ories 14
Peato Lafaele (25 2T, 6C,1P)

2009 Swindale Shield
Round 3 MSP 55 – Tawa 3
Brendan Watt 25 (5 tries)

2010 Swindale Shield
Round 11 OBU 35 – Wainuiomata 18
Lima Sopoaga (2C,5P,2DG 25)

2011 Swindale Shield
Round 1 Upper Hutt 40 – Wainuiomata 12
Jason Woodward (2T,3C,3P 25)

2011 Jubilee Cup
Round 8 Norths 29 – Poneke 3
Ajay Va’alepu (5T, 25)

2013 Swindale Shield
Round 7 Norths 97 – Wests Roosters 48
Jackson Garden-Bachop (11C,1P 25)

2013 Swindale Shield
Round 11 Norths 85 – Rimutaka 10
Dean Brunsdon (5T, 25)

2015 Swindale Shield
Round 4 OBU 72 – Johnsonville 13
Luke Campbell (1T,7C,2P 25)

2017 Swindale Shield Round 11 MSP 50 – Norths 14
Andrew Wells (2T,6C,1P 25)

26 points:

2013 Swindale Shield
Round 4 Petone 91 – Rimutaka 0
Jared Kahu (2T, 8C 26)

2016 Swindale Shield
Round 5 Norths 66 – Johnsonville 0
Perry Hayman (26 2T,8C)

2019 Swindale Shield
Round 2 MSP 71 – Johnsonville 5
Willie Schutz (1T,9C,1P 26)

2019 Swindale Shield
Round 6 Wellington 86 – Johnsonville 5
Oliie Marshall (2T,8C 26)

2020 Swindale Shield
Round 7 Norths 66 – Wainuiomata 0
Sam Clarke (1T,9C,1P 26)

27 points:

2010 Swindale Shield
Round 2 Norths 82 –Upper Hutt 16
James So’oialo (27 1T, 8C, 2P)

2016 Swindale Shield
Round 9 Ories 52 – Wellington 15
James Proctor (2T,4C,3P 27)

28 points:

2010 Swindale Shield
Round 7 Norths 58 – Tawa 29
James So’oialo (2T, 6C, 2P 28)

2017 Jubilee Cup
Round 4 MSP 33 – HOBM 27
Andrew Wells (28 2T,3C,4P)

29 points:

2009 Swindale Shield
Round 4 Norths 106 – Avalon 0
James So’oialo (1T,12C 29)

2011 Swindale Shield
Round 11 Upper Hutt 69 – Wests Roosters 9
Jason Woodward (1T,9C,2P 29)

2012 Swindale Shield
Round 4 Upper Hutt 77 – Rimutaka 0
Ben Aoina (3T,4C,2P 29)

2012 Swindale Shield
Round 6 Petone 88 – Rimutaka 3
Daniel Kirkpatrick (29 2T,8C,1P)

2015 Swindale Shield
Round 1 Wainuiomata 34 – Norths 34
Tyler Tane (2T,2C,5P 29)

Wellington Premier club rugby 2006-2020 (up to and including Round 8 of the Swindale Shield):: 30 or more points in a match:

30 points:

2006 Swindale Shield
Round 11 HOBM 45 – Ories 9
Jonathan Bentley (30 3T,6C,1P)

2008 Swindale Shield
Round 5 HOBM 85 – Avalon 0
James Kusel (30 2T,10C)

2009 Swindale Shield
Round 5 MSP 88 – wOa 3
Mike Kingsbeer (6T 30)

2013 Swindale Shield
Round 11 Norths 85 – Rimutaka 10
Jackson Garden-Bachop (302T,10C)

2017 Swindale Shield
Round 12 Poneke 70 – Avalon 14
Pakai Turia (2T,10C 30)

31 Points:

2012 Swindale Shield
Round 3 HOBM 61 – Wests 7
Glen Walters (31 2T,6C,2P,1DG)

2014 Jubilee Cup
Round 4 HOBM 36 – MSP 26
Glen Walters (2T,3C,5P 31)

2019 Swindale Shield
Round 10 OBU 106 – Paremata-Plimmerton 7
Dale Sabbagh (1T,13C 31)

32 Points:

2012 Jubilee Cup
Round 7 Upper Hutt 47 – Petone 27
Jason Woodward (2T,5C,4P 32)

2020 Swindale Shield
Round 3 HOBM 59 – Johnsonville 5
Brandyn Laursen (4T,6C 32)

33 points:

2011 Swindale Shield
Round 1 Ories 63 – Avalon 6
Trevor Marama (2T,7C,3P 33)

35 points:

2015 Swindale Shield
Round 1 Tawa 70 – PP 15
James So’oialo (3T,7C,2P 35)

38 points:

2020 Swindale Shield
Round 8 Wainuiomata 63 – Paremata-Plimmerton 19
Tyler Tane (4T,9C 38)

50+ points:

2013 Swindale Shield
Round 3 Poneke 102 – Rimutaka 0
Tauasosi Tuimavave (6T,10C 50)

2013 Swindale Shield
Round 7 HOBM 127 – Rimutaka 0
Brandyn Laursen (3T,17C,1P 52)

What is the all-time record for most points in a Premier Wellington club rugby match? What are the records in other provincial Premier/Senior A competitions? Please email editor@clubrugby.co.nz