Swindale Shield

By Scott MacLean Friday evening edition. And so it begins once more. After a month or so of preseason warmups, the regions 14 Premier sides hit the field for real tomorrow with the opening round of the Swindale Shield. They aren’t the only ones, with every other WRFU grade right

By Scott MacLean The 2024 club season kicks off on Saturday with the first of 13 rounds in the Premier Men’s Swindale Shield along with the Premier 2 Harper Lock Shield, Colts Paris Memorial, and the Women’s Rebecca Liua’ana Trophy. Our ninth annual A-Z looks at the season ahead. A – Administration:

The opening weekend of Wellington club rugby Premier Swindale Shield matches sees seven epic battles. Not least the replay of last July's Jubilee Cup final, between champions Oriental-Rongotai and first round winners Paremata-Plimmertn at the Polo Ground at 2.45pm. See below for a table and some commentary on the previous 19 Jubilee

The 2024 Wellington club rugby season gets underway this Saturday, with Round one Swindale Shield teams named here in the Draws & Results section (above) on Friday. As is the norm these days, there’s a good deal of movement between clubs while there is also those coming into the province or leaving in

Teenager Buxton Popoalii scores one of his two tries for Northern United in the 2008 Jubilee Cup semi-final win over Petone. Since the first season that the Jubilee Cup was contested in 1929 there have been approximately 8,000 Senior A/Premier club rugby matches contested in Wellington. In this new series for 2024