News in briefs – Page 63

Aisle be Back: Super Rugby kicks off, Hurricanes to play Stormers in season opener

by admin - February 1, 2020February 1, 2020

• By Kevin McCarthy Kevin McCarthy is Club Rugby’s Falkland Islands correspondent and has been covering and watching rugby around the world since the days of Wairarapa-Bush tearing up the NPC first division. Strictly speaking the world spins at pretty much the same rate, at least as far as mere mortals like

Taramai a welcome addition to Hurricanes loose forward group

by admin - February 1, 2020February 1, 2020

As has been the case for each of the past 24 years of Super Rugby, the Hurricanes are oozing loose forward talent this season. An exciting group of players will fill the contracted loosies roster, with Gareth Evans (Hawke’s Bay), Vaea Fifita (Wellington), Du’Plessis Kirifi (Wellington), Reed Prinsep (Canterbury), Devan Flanders

Season in review: 1930 (Part One the club rugby season)

by clubrugby - January 17, 2020February 1, 2020

A highly competitive club rugby season, a successful representative season culminating in the return of the Ranfurly Shield and a hugely popular in-bound tour by Great Britain – 1930 remains one of the vintage seasons in Wellington rugby. As we build up to the 2020 year in rugby, we rewind

Club Rugby teams of the decades

by clubrugby - January 10, 2020February 1, 2020

Welcome to the 15th decade of club rugby in Wellington, which gets underway on Saturday 21 March. Ahead of the new season, we have looked at the most dominant (statistically in most cases) teams of each decade so far. See below from the 1880s right up to the 2010s. 1880s - Poneke Championships

Rugby aplenty in 2020

by clubrugby - January 1, 2020February 1, 2020

Rugby players and supporters alike are recharging their batteries over the off-season. All are set to hit the ground running in 2020, as the start of the new year ushers in a new decade in rugby. The summer of sevens rugby continues in the New Year, while the Super Rugby season is