12 January: World club championship in pipeline
Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty has revealed a world club championship could be introduced within the next five years. McCafferty has long championed the idea of pitching the best from the European club game against the champions from the Southern Hemisphere. For more click here
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all grassroots players and followers. This year promises to be bigger and better than ever on the rugby fields of Wellington and New Zealand, home of the Rugby World Cup, so start preparing for it now!
Thousands cheer All Blacks in Wellington
Tens of thousands screaming Wellingtonians cheered the victorious All Blacks side in a victory parade through the streets of the city following their RWC victory in October. The team, featuring several current and now former Wellington and Hurricanes players, beat France 8-7 in the final in Auckland. Watch the victory parade here
Off-season 2011/12
The 2011 Wellington club rugby season is all over - with the season's winners celebrating all summer and the vanquished busy plotting their courses for next year. This website still gets plenty hits, both locally and from overseas, so we welcome your news and events over the next few months. Please email editor@clubrugby.co.nz and if it's rugby related, preferably grassroots rugby related, then we're happy publicise it here.
Inthe meantime, have a great off-season and we look forward to bringing you a refreshed and expanded club rugby website in 2012.
Taituave wins Best and Fairest for 2011
Marist St. Pat’s hooker Liu Taituave has won the Billy Wallace Trophy Best and Fairest club player of the year, as judged on a weekly 3, 2 and 1 basis by Dominion Post club rugby contributors. Taituave finished the season on 15 points, on ahead of front row teammate Jeff Allen and Upper Hutt fullback Jason Woodward.