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Above: Referee Gordon doles out a yellow card to a Poneke player in their 35-35 draw with the Upper Hutt Rams in the opening round of 2015 at Trentham Memorial Park. Plus some highlights from last week: 17 MARCH 2018: Defending Swindale Shield and Jubilee Cup champions Old Boys University send out an ominous warning
Rugby History
This week in history: 19-26 August (and rest of the season)
Above: Poneke's Bernie Hill scores against Petone in the 1975 Jubilee Cup decider. Poneke won 11-9/ PHOTO: Evening Post 25 August 1975. In association with the Bond St Sports Bar on Bond Street in Wellington, some highlights from this week in Wellington club rugby history are below. 19 August 1937: Athletic beat Wellington
60th anniversary of Wellington’s largest rugby crowd
Athletic Park full up on 15 August 1959. PHOTO: https://www.facebook.com/photosoldwellingtonregion/ They came in their droves. Wellington's largest rugby crowd, then and now, estimated on the day at 60,000 but revised down to 59,000, packed the old Athletic Park to watch the All Blacks defeat the touring British Isles 11-8 and go two nil
This week in club rugby history 12-18 August
In association with the Bond Street Sports Bar on Bond Street in Wellington, some highlights from this week in Wellington club rugby history are below. 12 August 1963: Heading into today’s final round of the season, Marist (21 points), Onslow (21) and Athletic (20) are all in with a chance of winning or sharing
Aisle be Back: Sir Brian Lochore and the 1981 Wairarapa-Bush team
By Kevin McCarthy Well they’re laying Brian BJ Lochore to rest today, with a funeral at Memorial Park in Masterton. If you’ve never been, it’s a modest but proud small field. There’s medium sized stand on one side, but no other seating or an embankment, just touchlines, surrounded by surburban homes. I