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Friday afternoon edition. A handful of matches on in the lower North Island this weekend, but what is on looks good. The ground could shake at Kilbirnie Park tomorrow when the Wellington Samoa and Auckland Samoa players square off, with their feature senior men’s match kicking off at 1.00pm. The Wellington team will
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Hugo Plummer taking his opportunities with the Wellington Lions
Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 060: Herb Lilburne
Herb Lilburne could be one of the most valuable players to have ever transferred from Canterbury to Wellington. In the 1920s and 1930s, New Zealand rugby and especially Wellington was blessed with super-talented backs that were popular and helped draw big crowds to the game in an era of wing forwards
Wellington Gold and Hawke’s Bay A win U16s openers as Hawke’s Bay wins U18s feature match
The Hurricanes U16s competition opened today around the region. In two Division 1 games, the Hawke’s Bay As beat Manawatu 12-5 at Ongley Park, Palmerston North and Wellington Gold defeated Wellington Black 22-10 for a bonus point win in their intra-union match at Tawa. In Division 2 U16 tournament openers, Whanganui beat
Hurricanes U16s tournament underway, U18s matches tomorrow
The 2023 Hurricanes U16 tournament starts tomorrow with the opening round of ‘pre-tournament’ matches, while the Hurricanes U18s series continues with a couple of highly anticipated match-ups. The U16s tournament is spit into A and B Divisions, with last year’s winners Manawatu, Hawke’s Bay A and both Wellington teams compete for