Wellington Lions

Wellington left wing Ron Jarden scoring a try for Wellington against Otago in their third challenge of 1953. Jarden scored all the points for Wellington in their successful challenge against Waikato three weeks earlier.  August and September 1953 were heady days for not only Wellington’s rugby fans, but the city’s community

After 4,767 days the Ranfurly Shield is finally back in Wellington following the Lions 19-12 victory over Hawke’s Bay at McLean Park in Napier. A TJ  Perenara try and four penalties and a conversion to first-five Aidan Morgan was enough to blunt an unusually inaccurate Hawke’s Bay whose points were

The Wellington province’s 11th Ranfurly Shield reign started at 8.45pm on Saturday night Napier Standard Time. The Wellington Lions held on to beat the Hawke’s Bay Magpies 19-12 in a typical last-gasp thriller between these sides for the Ranfurly Shield. But unlike 1967, there were no death-knock heroics for the Hawke’s Bay