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The Wellington Lions open their 2024 National Provincial Championship season with an away fixture against Auckland at Eden Park on Friday night. The Lions won their fifth NPC Division 1/Premiership title in 2022 but missed out by a solitary point in their semi-final to Hawke’s Bay in last year’s semi-final meeting. Wellington
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With club rugby in 2024 winding up through the Lower North Island, there is plenty of rugby still on over the next two to three months. There is the remainder of local college rugby competitions, heading into the Hurricanes finals and the National Top 4 and then sevens tournaments. A feature tournament
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Thriller at Porirua Park as representative season gets underway and college semi-finals confirmed
Wellington Māori tighthead prop Geordie Bean scores the second of his two tries today at Porirua Park, as part of their high scoring narrow win over the Horowhenua-Kapiti Heartland Championship squad. By Steven White & Scott MacLean The atmosphere at Porirua Park today was several notches more subdued than a week