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By Kevin McCarthy Another year and another reworking potentially of rugby competitions. NZR met yesterday to thrash out three options. If you haven’t seen them, they are (as far as we know): Adding two NZ teams to Super Rugby Pacific, restoring the competition to 12 teams. Cutting duplication by having
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 142: Nev MacEwan
Nev MacEwan was a leading player in Wellington club rugby and for Wellington representative teams throughout his career which spanned 1954-67. MacEwan was a lock or No. 8 and specialist lineout forward. He played all his rugby for the Athletic Club, the last three seasons as captain and coach, leading his
Matchday Scoring Highlights: Wellington U16s v Wellington Co-ed Schools U18s
The Wellington Co-ed Schools U18s is a new representative team, with players selected from those Co-ed schools who are mostly playing in the non-Premiership grades in the College Sport Wellington competitions. A number of high profile players have come through and risen to the top of the game from these schools
NPC Number Crunching: Wellington Lions v Northland
The Stat Attack is compiled by Peter Marriott and continues for this year’s 50th National Provincial Championship competition. The eighth one here is from Saturday’s most recent loss, this time to Northland at home. Round 8 v Northland: Lost 28-52 The Wellington Lions are still looking for their first win of the season.
Matchday Scoring Highlights: Hawke’s Bay U18s (42) v Centurions U18s (41)
For the neutral observer, this match featured some cracking tries by both teams - and its all packaged up in the highlights below. Hawke's Bay trailed the whole game but scored a try when it mattered with the final play of the game and kicked the winning conversion on fulltime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYmhrbdJtGw Earlier, the