Above: A familiar sight in Wellington club rugby in recent seasons – Shahn Eru running strongly with ball in hand for Wainuiomata in last year’s semi-final win over Marist St Pat’s and inset in the lineout in the same game. Twelve months ago, Shahn Eru and Chase Tiatia were on opposing sides in the Wellington club rugby Jubilee Cup final at the Hutt Recreation Ground. Shahn (for Wainuiomata) and Chase (for Hutt Old Boys Marist) scored the only two tries in the final, won by HOBM 14-11...More

The 2015 representative season is just around the corner, with several teams playing matches in various Hurricanes region competitions including the Centurions U21s who will be competing in this year’s Heartland region RDO Championship competition. This will be the first time in many years that there has been a WRFU Age Grade U21 Representative side. The resurrection of this team has been driven by the WRFU RDO group and the Centurions Rugby Club. The RDO Group sees the U21 Grade as means to keep college leavers involved in the game for two to three years, to assist players who physically develop later, and at the same time, produce future Premier players, who will hopefully go on to play 50-100 games for their Clubs...More

Above: Down and dirty. Action from last year’s inaugural Festival series, won by the Wellington Maori team. Wellington’s top Premier players will be in action again this weekend as the Wellington Festival of Rugby kicks off for its second year. The three-week tournament was introduced last year to provide further representative opportunities for those guys playing well at club level, and is made up of a Wellington Samoan and Wellington Maori team, along with City and Suburbs teams. From the tournament, Wellington Development coach Matt Lee will select his 2015 team to participate in the Hurricanes’ region development series matches...More

The curse of the top qualifier continues. St. Pat’s Town have won the WelTec Premiership title for the first time since 1995 upsetting top of the table Scots College, 19-8 in the final at Porirua Park this afternoon. Watch some video highlights here  Remarkably the top ranked school in the round-robin hasn't won the Wellington Championship since 2009. For Scots it was their first defeat in 14 Premier One games and just their second loss in the last 32 games. Feverish defence was the key ingredient for Town...More

Above: The Hutt Old Boys Marist and Marist St Pat’s lineout jumpers meet and greet in today’s Ed Chaney Cup major semi-final, won by MSP. UPDATED: Their top teams contested the Jubilee Cup final, now the Old Boys University and Marist St Pat’s Premier Reserve squads will meet in next Saturday’s Ed Chaney Cup final at Nairnville Park after winning their semi-finals today. On one of the coldest afternoons of the season, the second placed qualifier Old Boys University warmed to third placed Poneke’s challenge at Nairnville to win 18-5, while fourth placed Marist St Pat’s beat top qualifier Hutt Old Boys Marist 20-18 in a cinematic finish at the Hutt Recreation Ground...More

Petone No. 8 Brad Shields will captain the 2015 Wellington Lions and Oriental-Rongotai openside flanker Ardie Savea will be his deputy when the ITM Cup starts next weekend. The 2015 Lions squad was revealed this evening, with other notable names in the group including former Australian U20 squad and now Wellington Axemen halfback Adam Deck and Old Boys University Jubilee Cup final match-winner Joe Hill. Deck comes into the side for the first time; Hill is a former Otago and Wellington player. Two other players in line to make their Wellington Lions debuts include Hutt Old Boys Marist first five-eighth Johnny Bentley and Wellington Axeman and Six60 musician Hoani Matenga...More

Above: The Hutt Old Boys Marist and Old Boys University Premier Reserve sides have home ground advantage for tomorrow's Premier Reserve Ed Chaney Cup semi-finals. While the three Premier grade titles have all been decided there is still plenty of rugby at both club and college level happening over the next handful of weekends, and representative rugby is also on the horizon.  Premier Reserve Ed Chaney and HD Morgan Cups The senior-most grade still in action is Premier Reserve, where the two divisions have reached the semi-finals...More

Slightly more than a week after playing host to the showcase day of the club season, Porirua Park will again be in the spotlight with the playing of the College Sport Wellington WelTec Premiership final between Scots College and St Patrick’s College, Wellington. While many tipped Scots College to beat Wellington College in one semi-final (which they did by 41-13), few thought that St Pat’s Town would overturn their 15-30 loss in the Traditional to Silverstream from 10 days earlier, but they did with a 23-20 victory...More

At Scots College the prefects wear different socks to the other students. At the beginning of each year the prefects fittings are done by one of the mothers in the Pipeband. This is usually a seamless process, but in 2015 there was a very big problem - Alex Fidow! The following email was sent to the Headmasters office: "We have a problem with one of the boys - Mr Fidow – his legs are way too big for any socks in the uniform shop. His calves are 52cm by 20 inches. I have walked to each menswear shop in town – no joy...More

Match Details Result: France 38 – Wellington 18 When: 9 June 1984Weather: Fine, with a strong northerly Crowd: 30,000 The Tour Expect the unexpected. The catch-cry of the Hurricanes – but also of French rugby teams. These was none more so than on their New Zealand tour in 1984 and in particular on their one and only visit to Wellington that saw them smoke home team in the second half and win by 20 points. This was a very good French side that toured New Zealand throughout June 1984, winning all six provincial matches and pushing the All Blacks close in both their Tests in Christchurch and Auckland...More