Wellington’s “Ghost” Rugby Clubs Part 11: Wadestown RFC

  Photo above: Soon to be selected All Black, Neven McEwan in 1955, left, with Australian sporting great, Ken McGregor. A MOST VALUABLE MEANS OF CIVILISING YOUNG MEN “The Wadestown Club” By Gordon Noble-Campbell. On 10 February 1910, the then Mayor of Wellington, Dr Alfred Kingcome Newman, remarked when opening the new Wadestown clubrooms on Pitt

The survivors’ XV

In recent years Premier rugby has increasingly become a young man’s game, with more players making the jump from their school first XVs to the cauldron of club rugby in the space of one or two seasons and fewer players staying in the game for longer. Heading into the start of

The 12 rugby questions of Christmas

The festive season is a time for family and friends, for relaxing and making merry. But soon enough, the attention will turn to the 2019 rugby season. See below for this year’s 12 rugby questions of Christmas heading into another bumper year of local, domestic and international rugby. 1. Are Wainuiomata

Wellington Pride and Moata’a win Porirua park silverware

[divider] Voluptate illum dolore UPDATE Friday: The third leg of the American Ambassador's Sevens series scheduled for Mary Crowther Park on Saturday has been postponed owing to the weather forecast. More updates forthcoming.The weather forecast wer_Hutt/The sevens season is at full throttle over the next fortnight, with the third and final leg

Village Kings tournament this Saturday

UPDATE Friday: The third leg of the American Ambassador's Sevens series scheduled for Mary Crowther Park on Saturday has been postponed owing to the weather forecast. More updates forthcoming. The sevens season is at full throttle over the next fortnight, with the third and final leg of the American Ambassador’s tournament