Wellington Club Rugby

Ories Premiers and coach Proctor win at Wellington rugby awards
24/11/2011 The Oriental Rongotai Premiers and their coach Phil Proctor were both recognised for their achieve...

Release of the Rugby World Cup 2011 Official DVD
16/11/2011 Never forget the incredible highs of the 2011 Rugby World Cup where the New Zealand rugby team made ...

Norths meet their match in Ponsonby
14/10/2011 Photo with this article is from the Hurricanes region U16 tournament. The Wellington U16 and U16 De...

Wellington rugby clubs embracing Rugby World Cup
07/09/2011 The teams are here, preparations are complete and the stage is set for world rugby's showpiece t...

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.

The Jubilee and Hardham Cups: Competition Profiles

The four semi-finalists have been found and the Jubilee Cup goes on the line over the line over the next two weeks, with this year’s final being held at the Petone Recreation Ground on Sunday 7 August. Wellington club rugby's most coveted trophy was presented by the WRFU in 1929 in recognition of its golden jubilee year and is awarded to the winner of the competition among the top eight teams in the Premier division. The Victoria University Club was the first r ... [More]

Guest Selectors – Finals weekend

For this weekend’s finals, we asked representatives of nine of the other 2011 Jublilee and Hardham Cup teams that played against the four finalists in one or both (in the case of Poneke and HOBM) competitions. Note these are not the views of the clubs, just undisclosed individuals, and no one’s keeping them to it!

The selections are (winning team by 13 and over, 12 or under or a draw at fulltime):

Club:	Predicted Jubilee Cup winner:	Predicted Hardham Cup winner:
Avalon	Norths 13+	Tawa 12-
HOBM	Norths 13+	Tawa 12-
Marist St. Pat’s	Ories 12-	OBU 12-
Petone	Norths 12-	OBU 13+
Poneke	Norths 12-	OBU 12-
Rimutaka	Ories 12-	OBU 12-
Upper Hutt	Norths 12-	OBU 12-
Wainuiomata	Norths 12-	OBU 12-
Wests Roosters	Ories 12-	OBU 12-

Liu Taituave (Marist St Pats)

2011 Billy Wallace Best and Fairest Billy Wallace Trophy winner Liu Taituave. [More]