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Short Passes 26 August (afternoon edition)

by clubrugby - August 26, 2019

Another month is drawing to a close, but before it does there is a banquet of rugby coming up over the next several days. This sumptuous rugby experience starts this Thursday when the Wellington Lions play the Counties Manukau Stadium Steelers at Wellington Stadium for the Jonah Lomu Trophy (more on

Aisle Be Back: All Blacks retain the Bledisloe as the Lions prepare for Canterbury

by clubrugby - August 22, 2019

By Kevin McCarthy You can go a bit far with treating the World Cup warm-up matches as meaningless. For example, if the All Blacks had lost at Eden Park, we’d now been in the alternate reality nightmare of imminent Rugby World Cup doom. We’ve been there before, and it isn’t a

Short Passes 19 August + Pride squad named

by clubrugby - August 19, 2019

Above: Tawa College won the Premier 2 college final in a splash on Saturday. PHOTO: Andy McArthur. Update: The Wellington Pride squad for the upcoming Women's NPC competition is: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1VV7VgJo2e/ Midweek rugby this Wednesday sees the final of the Premier 1 Girls competition between Porirua College and Hutt Valley High School. Kick-off at

Aisle be Back: Bledisloe Cup #2

by clubrugby - August 15, 2019

By Kevin McCarthy It was fascinating but not very informative to have the last five days or so of dissection of the All Blacks thumping loss to the Wallabies in Bledisloe One. But now at least we have the team out for Bledisloe Two. Both wingers and one prop gone on

60th anniversary of Wellington’s largest rugby crowd

by clubrugby - August 15, 2019

Athletic Park full up on 15 August 1959. PHOTO: https://www.facebook.com/photosoldwellingtonregion/ They came in their droves. Wellington's largest rugby crowd, then and now, estimated on the day at 60,000 but revised down to 59,000, packed the old Athletic Park to watch the All Blacks defeat the touring British Isles 11-8 and go two nil