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The community rugby fields of Wellington and the lower North Island mostly remain subdued for at while longer, but the wider region’s high performance teams are in action this weekend. The Petone and Pōneke clubs are underway for the first time this year, meeting in a Colts and Senior squads dust
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Aisle be Back: Super Rugby underway this weekend
The pre-season crowd in Wainuiomata last Friday in their second pre-season match. By Kevin McCarthy Aisle be Back returns for another year of hard-hitting analysis and insight mixed with an often light-hearted take on all things Hurricanes and Super Rugby, and later in the year international rugby and the NPC. Crusaders at
What happened 100 years ago Part 2: Representative Rugby
The Dominion headline the morning after Hawke's Bay had successfully defended the Ranfurly Shield against Wellington - away from home at Athletic Park. This was the biggest domestic rugby fixture played in Wellington in 1925. Part 1 Club Rugby 1925: https://clubrugby.nz/wp/2025/02/05/what-happened-100-years-ago-part-1-club-rugby/ Wellington representative teams played 11 matches in 1925, for eight wins and
Sideline Conversions 10 February (some news and information to start the week)
Paremata-Plimmerton etched themselves into history on Saturday, becoming just the third Wellington club after Wainuiomata and Northern United to win the National Club 7s and the Middlesex County Wavell Wakefield Cup at Karaka RFC on Saturday. Some late withdrawals saw the tournament reduced to just six teams and a full
Hurricanes beat Blues five tries to three in community pre-season match at Wainuiomata
Hurricanes 31 (Kini Naholo, Billy Proctor, Riley Higgins, Fehi Fineanganofo, Peter Lakai tries; Harry Godfrey con; Riley Hohepa 2 con) beat the Blues 19 (Taufa Funaki, Cameron Suafoa, Patrick Tuipulotu, Beauden Barrett con, Harry Plummer con). Halftime: 12-7. The Hurricanes put out the full house sign at William Jones Park three