Above: Wes Goosen in familiar pose, diving to score a try in a recent match for Old Boys University The last time Wes Goosen played a final at Porirua Park was in 2013. His Wellington College First XV upset St. Patrick's College, Silverstream, 25-22. Goosen spent most of that season injured. In a pre-season fixture against Napier Boys' High School (at the same venue) he broke his finger and suffered a stress fracture in his back. Gossen's return was influential in reversing Wellington's fortunes...More

Match Details Result: British Isles 27 – Wellington 19When: 25 May 1983Weather: Overcast and coolCrowd: 30,000 The Tour The All Blacks enjoyed a 4-0 series sweep over the British Isles in 1983, highlighted by the Test in Wellington on 18 June in which the All Blacks won 9-0 and protected a narrow lead throughout the second half into the teeth of a howling gale. Against the provincial opposition, the Lions were generally successful, winning 12 of their 14 matches. Their losses were to Auckland (12-13) in their second match of the tour and Canterbury (20-22) during the back half of their visit...More

Above: Peniasi Tokakece scoring one of his two tries for Marist St Pat’s in their Jubilee Cup semi-final against Tawa this afternoon. MSP won 27-23 and they will meet Old Boys University in next week’s final. Top qualifier Old Boys University and Marist St Pat’s will contest the 2015 Jubilee Cup final, after each winning epic semi-finals in Wellington today in bright sunshine. At the Basin Reserve, Old Boys University scored a late try, converted from the sideline by fullback Sam Chamberlain, before watching a death-knock James Proctor sail wide to hold on and beat Oriental-Rongotai 20-18...More

Above: OBU and MSP will both be hoping to soar high when they host home Jubilee Cup semi-finals at the Basin Reserve and Evans Bay Park respectively tomorrow. It's Premier semi-finals day tomorrow in Wellington. As well as the matches in both the Jubilee and Hardham Cups, there are also the semi-finals in Premier Women’s, another round in the lower grades the resumption of college rugby; and in all conditions should be close to ideal for rugby if the forecast proves correct. The Jubilee Cup matches have the very rare oddity that not just one, but both match-ups, are repeats of last weekend’s final round-robin encounters, even down to the same venues, while the two Hardham Cup games are both reverses in terms of venue from the round-robin contests...More

Above: Action from the 2013 Jubilee Cup semi-final that was won by Oriental-Rongotai 30-27 in an extra-time thriller. Will Saturday’s playoff matches be as close? The 2015 Wellington Premier, Premier 2 and Women’s club rugby season is now in championship mode and there’s excitement in the air. Twenty five teams started the second round competitions at the start of June and now 12 are left standing in the Jubilee and Hardham Cups and the Victoria Tavern Trophy. These will be halved after the opening weekend of knockout rugby and this weekend's winners and their supporters will converge on Porirua Park next Saturday for Finals Day...More

Above: Mum's the word as Silverstream second five-eighth Losi Filipo crashes over to score his side's fourth and bonus point try this afternoon against St Pat's Town. St Pat’s Silverstream brought the curtain down on the 2015 WelTec Premiership round-robin series by overcoming rivals St Pat’s Town 30-15 at home this afternoon. Silverstream will join top qualifier Scots College on the sidelines this coming Saturday in the opening weekend of First XV playoff rugby. Both will host home semi-finals the following weekend...More

The history of the Jubilee Cup is littered with fairytale wins. In recent times, championship wins by Oriental-Rongotai (2011) and Tawa (2013) have been embraced by their local communities. In terms of cinematic seasons, it’s hard to go past Onslow’s first Jubilee Cup title success in 1955, the season when the community club representing suburban Ngaio and Khandallah took on and beat the established powerhouse clubs and won the title. For several years Onslow had been building. They had won promotion to the Senior 1st grade in 1947 after winning the second division the previous year and were unbeaten after the first round before falling away at the back end of the season...More

This Saturday’s Jubilee Cup semi-final between 2012 champions Marist St Pats and 2013 winners Tawa could come down to goal-kicking. In a straight shootout off the kicking tee, both sides possess the best. MSP first five-eighth Fa’atonu Fili has been kicking goals at this level for over 15 years and is the King of Evans Bay Park, whilst Tawa’s James So’oialo has kicked 1140 points in his seven-year Wellington Premier club rugby career. So’oialo missed last weekend’s seventh round showdown between the two sides with illness, won 44-38 by MSP, but is set to return to the starting XV at either first five-eighth or fullback for this playoff match...More

As we move into the business end of the 2015 club rugby season, we thought to find out what the record for the largest crowd in a Wellington club rugby match. The heyday of Wellington club rugby’s popularity was the 1950s, so that was our starting point. Several thousand people regularly attended matches at the Petone Recreation Ground when All Black fullback Bob Scott joined the club in 1954. There were famous club matches at Athletic Park in this period that drew crowds of 14,000-15,000, such as University-Petone clashes in 1952, 1954 and 1955 and 1956 and Petone-Onslow in 1955...More

Above: Action from today’s top-of-the-table U85kg Division One clash between the Tawa Titans and the OBU Onslow Bunnies. The Titans won a ding-dong clash 16-0 to register their 12th straight win of the season. UPDATED: In a repeat of today’s last round set of Jubilee Cup matches, top qualifier Old Boys University will host Oriental-Rongotai at the Basin Reserve and second placed Marist St Pat’s will host Tawa at Evans Bay Park in next week’s Wellington club rugby championship semi-finals...More