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Players who have switched positions in club rugby

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by clubrugby - May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

Teru Time (left) and Cole Stewart - two current long-serving players who have forged out club careers in both the backs and forwards.  From decreasing pace and increasing size to greater experience, to the needs of the team - club rugby’s teamsheets are historically filled with players who started life out

Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 043: Craig Mackenzie

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by clubrugby - May 25, 2023

R.H.C. Mackenzie, better known in his career as ‘Crow’, was a wing forward for the Wellington College First XV who switched positions to the backs part-way through his senior rugby career and was capped twice for the All Blacks in 1928. Mackenzie played his club rugby for University and was his

Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 042: Ed Chaney and Mick Kenny

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by clubrugby - May 17, 2023

Ed Chaney (left) and Mick Kenny, both former players with trophies named after them. Ed Chaney and Mick Kenny were leading players who both played for up-and-coming club Johnsonville and for Wellington representative teams in the 1920s and 1930s. Kenny’s story is one of perseverance and commitment of the highest order, as

Pioneers of rugby in Wellington 041: Leo Heazlewood

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by clubrugby - May 11, 2023

One of the battlers of club and representative rugby in the 1920 and 1930s. Leo ‘Toucher’ Heazlewood’s job as a railway worker took him to four provinces throughout his career, but it was his three years at Wellington that were his most fruitful and influential on the club and representative teams

Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 040: Hercules ‘Bumper’ and Alan Wright

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by clubrugby - May 3, 2023

A father-son duo who both featured in Wellington club rugby and played for Wellington and New Zealand, one in rugby league and the other for the All Blacks. Hercules, or ‘Bumper’ Wright as he was known around the traps was a Wellington representative out of Petone between 1903-07, playing 27 games

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