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Sideline Conversions 18 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)

by clubrugby - March 18, 2024March 18, 2024

Monday morning edition: Week four of pre-season 2024 and kickoff for the Horowhenua-Kapiti Ramsbotham Cup competition coming right up. Look out for our preview at the end of the week canvassing what's coming up next Saturday, but there are at least five inter-club Premier fixtures between Wellington clubs scheduled. Poneke also

Club Rugby pre-season schedules for this weekend

by clubrugby - March 15, 2024March 15, 2024

Wedged between the Ides of March today and St Patrick’s Day on Sunday is the third Saturday of pre-season club rugby matches and off-field training and events for Wellington’s 14 Premier clubs and clubs further up the line in Lower North Island Hurricanes territory. There is just one scheduled pre-season interclub

Great days in club rugby 004: Brothers in Arms

by clubrugby - March 14, 2024

A family affair. Several sets of brothers in the the Tawa club that won both the Premier Jubilee Cup (pictured here) and the Premier 2 Ed Chaney Cup in 2013. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby

Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 064: Leslie Arthur Thomas

by clubrugby - March 13, 2024

LA “Shag” Thomas played several seasons for both Petone in club rugby and Wellington in representative rugby between 1917-28 and two years in the Hawke’s Bay in 1920-21. Thomas won four Wellington Senior A Club Championship titles with Petone, including three in succession 1922-24, and he made the All Blacks in

Hurricanes v Blues Stat Attack

by clubrugby - March 12, 2024

4,000 points. With this try to Riley Higgins, the Hurricanes surpassed that marker of points in Super Rugby. The total now stands at 4,003. points. By Peter Marriott Some key facts and figures from the third round Super Rugby match at Wellington Stadium between the Hurricanes and the Blues. Week 3 v