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Updated: Welcome to Rugtober.
Oh my Lord. Taranaki and Chiefs lock Josh Lord has been called into the All Blacks squad for the Northern Tour to the USA and Europe.
20-year-old Lord, together with All Blacks Sam Cane, Samuel Whitelock, Dane Coles and Shannon Frizell, will meet up with the squad in the Northern Hemisphere. Lord comes in, with locks Scott Barrett and Patrick Tuipulotu returning to New Zealand this week for family reasons.
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Congratulations to Fa’asua Makisi for playing her 50th match for the Wellington Pride on Saturday.
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One more weekend of 15s rugby and then we are mostly done for the season, before a run of sevens tournaments starting later in the month, potential lockdowns aside.
It starts this Wednesday evening at Porirua Park with round two of the Hurricanes Youth Council’s Secondary Schoolgirls competition, with the Wellington Samoans U18s Girls and Horowhenua-Kapiti U18s Girls meeting at 5.30pm and first round winners the Wellington Maori U18 Girls and Centurions U18 Girls playing at 7.30pm.
The Hurricanes U16s tournament resumes on Wednesday. In two Division A matches, Hawke’s Bay hosts Wellington Black in Napier and Wairarapa-Bush and Manawatu meet in Palmerston North. In Division B, Hawke’s Bay Development and East Coast play in Ruatoria and Whanganui hosts Horowhenua-Kapiti.
The New Zealand Under 18 Maori are based at the Johnsonville Rugby Club for a camp this week and play a Wellington U18 selection at Jerry Collins Stadium on Thursday at midday.
It continues on Friday night at Wellington Stadium where the Wellington Lions will be wanting to come good against Canterbury in round six of the NPC and for the Harry Saundercock Shield.
On Saturday in Wellington, the Wellington Centurions men’s team hosts Hawke’s Bay Development side at Porirua Park and the Wellington U19s play a 2021 farewell match at Lyndhurst Park against Whanganui B. Plus the third round of the Girls U18 competition, with games at Porirua and Paraparaumu. It is also finals day for the U16s tournament, with matches to be confirmed after Wednesday.
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After yesterday’s Covid-19 developments can Auckland, North Harbour and Counties-Manukau return to the National Provincial Championship now? As recently as Friday there were news soundbites about a return to action on 16 October – a fortnight away.
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The Waikato men’s team has the bye this weekend, but their women’s side is due to play Canterbury in Christchurch in the Farah Palmer Cup decider this weekend.
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Canterbury Women extended their unbeaten run to 27 wins in a row with a 31-25 victory in a non-Farah Palmer Cup, first class match in Palmerston North on Saturday. They were down 25-0. Hawke’s Bay beat Northland in the championship semi-final from 21-0 down and faces Manawatu in the decider.
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Healthy for Whanganui and Hurricanes region rugby that the Whanganui U18s won the Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council’s U18 Trustbank Shield this year.
The Junior Butcher Boys carved Horowhenua-Kapiti 90-17 in their final match of the competition on Saturday, to complete a three-week unbeaten campaign. This was their first win in this competition that has been played for over 30 years. For Whanganui, four of their players were year 12s, so will be back next year when hopefully this competition can run its course with a final.
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The Central Region Shield U19s competition was won by Wellington on Saturday, beating Manawatu 41-21, to complete an unbeaten run in this competition. The Hurricanes Heartland U20s beat Hawke’s Bay, to finish third.
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South Africa actually ran the ball in the Gold Coast and scored a famous victory. Is there a more influential player for their side in world rugby than Faf De Klerk?
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Riley Higgins, Peter Lakai, Dom Ropeti – or a combination of the three – for the Wellington Lions 23 this coming Friday against Canterbury?
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A debut off the bench for Horowhenua-Kapiti on Saturday in the Heartland Championship for Poneke’s Connor Strang.
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Te Wehi Wright playing for East Coast against Horowhenua-Kapiti on Saturday.
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A number of Wellington Women’s club rugby players playing rugby league for Wellington over the weekend.
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Looking to get some livestreaming going next year through the Club Rugby channels – anyone interested in assisting or have some ideas or interested in sponsoring this or a combination of all three please get in touch with us.
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Asafo Aumua, Josh Southall, Peter Lakai, Toby Crosby – definitely a touch of the explosive potion in the water at St Pat’s Silverstream.
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Below: All Black Aaron Smith presenting the Cyclones their jerseys on Saturday ahead of their friendly with Canterbury. Manawatu led 25-0 at halftime but Canterbury came back to win 31-25. We had a chat with Elinor-Plum King (bottom right in the photo, next to Selica Winiata) on Friday, one of two current Manukura school players in this year’s Cyclones squad, along with Holly-Rae Mete. Look out for story on College Sport Media this week.
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The Wellington Lions have scored the most tries (25) of any team in the NPC after 5 rounds, with Tasman and Waikato (both 22 tries) the next most successful team. The Lions have only converted 14 of those 25 tries. Their defence is porous, having leaked the third most points (146), after BoP (161) and Northland (209).
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100 games for Rene Ranger for Northland in their 38-28 win over Waikato on Friday night. The other players to have achieved that feat for Northland have been. He is the 25th Northland player to reach this milestone. Their most capped played is Joe Morgan (165 caps), followed by Warren Johnston (161). Ross Wright, who achieved this last year is the other current player on the list.
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Tasman won the inaugural Clarke Dermody Cup between themselves and Southland on Sunday. Tasman beat the Stags 51-14.
Southland playing Manawatu this Saturday at home – Chainsaw Photos is in Invercargill this coming weekend, so look out for his pics on the road!
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This sounds interesting:
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On Saturday, Te Upoko o Te Ika Wellington Māori retained the Sir Eruera Tihema Tirikatene Shield with a 27-21 victory over Waitaha Canterbury Māori.
Edward James Te Āika Tregerthen, later known as Eruera Tīhema Tirikātene, was born on 5 January 1895 at Te Rakiwhakaputa pā near Kaiapoi. His father, a carpenter, later a skipper of boats, wheat farmer and minister of religion, was John Driver Tregerthen. He had been one of the apostles of the South Island prophet Hipa Te Maihāroa and was to become the first South Island apostle of T. W. Rātana. John Tregerthen’s mother, Emma Driver, derived her high rank in Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha from her mother, Mōtoitoi, of Otago. His wife, Eruera’s mother, was Tini Noti Tūhuru Arapata Hōrau (Jane Albert) of Ngāi Tahu; she was descended by senior lines from the ancestor Tūhuru of Westland, and was also related to Ngāti Toa of Porirua.
In 1914 he was too young to volunteer for the armed forces, so he rode to a recruiting station where he was unknown, and gave his name as Eruera Tirikātene, and falsified his age. He left for service abroad with the second Māori Contingent, and after three years in Egypt and France with the New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion. Member of Parliament and Cabinet in Peter Fraser’s Labour Government. Member of the Ratana Church.
On 11 January 1967 Tirikātene rose early, as was his custom, and with Te Rino went to cut down a stand of pine on their Kaiapoi property. When the last tree was felled, Tirikātene sat down on a log, said ‘Good, we’ve completed the job’, then closed his eyes and died.
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Check out legendary rugby photographer Peter Bush’s new Instagram page:
