By Steven White Petone backs Stanley Solomon and Justine McGregor have won this year’s respective Men’s and Women’s Wellington club rugby Best and Fairest competitions. Solomon won the Men’s Billy Wallace Trophy and McGregor the Women’s Erin Rush Cup, at the combined Wellington Lions/WRFU Community Awards held in the Norwood Room
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Wellington v Waikato Quarter-final Stat Attack
Sideline Conversions 9 October (some rugby news and information to start the new week)
Thirty two. That’s the number on the Wellington Lions’ mind as they lick their wounds (literally if you’re James O’Reilly) and prepare to face the Hawke’s Bay Magpies in this coming Saturday’s major NPC semi-final down at Wellington Stadium. The Lions survived 32 phases of heated Waikato attack in the red minutes
Aisle be Back: All Blacks v Uruguay (the wash-up)
By Kevin McCarthy My family used to live in the Falkland Islands, and politics being politics, if they needed better medical care, they’d take the slow boat to neighbouring Uruguay, rather than Argentina. The said ship, the Montevideo, was legendary for making people violently sick in the wild South Atlantic seas. I
Ranfurly Shield broken, give it to the Heartland
By Adam Julian It’s only recently the Ranfurly Shield has been publicly labelled a taonga. Taonga is a Māori word to describe treasured items or possessions that hold cultural, spiritual, historical or personal significance. These can include physical objects such as artwork, carvings, jewellery or heirlooms, as well as intangible concepts