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Jubilee Cup winning captains XV

by clubrugby - December 23, 2020December 25, 2020

The Jubilee Cup for Wellington club rugby supremacy has been contested every year since 1929, with some 19 clubs winning the title over nine decades. See a XV below made of up winning Jubilee Cup captains. As with these sorts of posts the below is not a definitive list or best

Short Passes 21 December (Season’s Greetings edition)

by clubrugby - December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

What a ride! It's the end of 2020, and may we end this year with some Christmas cheer before wiping the slate clean and blasting into 2021. Club Rugby wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and thanks everyone for their ongoing support. Look out for our

2021 Swindale Shield draw released

by clubrugby - December 18, 2020December 18, 2020

The run up to the southern hemisphere's most hotly contested local rugby competition starts today, with the release of the 2021 Wellington club rugby Swindale Shield draw. The 2021 season starts a little later this year, with opening day on Saturday 10 April. That is the date for the first of 13

Short Passes 7 December – news in briefs and happenings

Club Rugby

by clubrugby - December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

UPDATED: The fifteens season is over, but resumes early in the New Year when the Super Rugby teams embark on their pre-season programmes. The representative sevens season is all but over, just this coming weekend's Condor Sevens in Auckland to come. We will preview this from a Wellington schools perspective in

Patafilo included in Hurricanes squad

by clubrugby - December 3, 2020December 3, 2020

Tawa outside back and Wellington Lion Pepesana Patafilo has joined the Hurricanes for 2021. Patafilo and Hawke’s Bay wing Lolagi Visinia have filled up the final two spots for next year. Patafilo is a former Wellington College First XV centre, in the 2013 winning team captained by his new Hurricanes teammate James