The Avalon Wolves are holding their Old Timers’ Day this coming Saturday with a club lunch and couch session with SKY TV personalities Scotty “Sumo” Stevenson and Mark Stafford and all its teams playing at home on the newly re-laid Fraser Park artificial and surrounding fields. Read a bit more about the club below. Club: Avalon Wolves Rugby Football Club Team name: Avalon Wolves Team mascot: Alpha Wolf Competitions currently playing: Premier, Premier Reserve, Colts, Women’s U85kg Division 1, Presidents Social Media: Avalon Wolves Rugby Football Club  on Facebook, @AvalonWolvesRFC on Twitter Home ground: Fraser Park (Wellingtons newest artificial turf) Club origins: Avalon was formed when Naenae and Taita rugby clubs joined in November 1979...More

Above: Jonathan Bentley back playing for Hutt Old Boys Marist recently after several years overseas. In August last year Wellington Lions coach Chris Boyd asked Jonathan Bentley, "How long are you staying in New Zealand for?" Bentley was over from England on a brief break and responded, "a couple of weeks." Boyd replied, "can you make it a few months?" In 2014 the Lions employed the services of six first-fives in 10 games. "It seemed to be one of the seasons where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong," Bentley says...More

Match Details Result: British Isles 13 – Wellington 6 When: 2 July, 1977Weather: Showery and coolCrowd: 30,000 The Tour For the second time in six years, and following recent visits by England (1973), Scotland (1975) and Ireland (1976), a full British Isles team embarked on a comprehensive tour of New Zealand. The tour lasted three months from mid-May to mid-August and took in 25 matches, including four Tests against the All Blacks. The previous British Isles tourists had proved tough to beat, and this one, featuring 16 players out of 30 from Wales including captain Phil Bennett, plus Ireland’s Mike Gibson who had toured New Zealand with the 1966 and 1971 Lions, was expected to perform just as well...More

Above: Former Hurricane Tane Tu’ipulotu chatting with current Hurricanes coach Chris Boyd on the sidelines of Wellington club rugby earlier this season. After retiring from international and professional playing careers, an increasing number of recent players are swapping the cauldron of professional rugby to the clipboards of Wellington club rugby. This season there are six former Hurricanes and several more former professional players that had extensive playing careers elsewhere involved in coaching Wellington’s Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup teams...More

Above: OBU flanker Mitch Clarke emerges from the gloom with hooker Zeke Sopoaga in support. Clarke scored two second half tries and halfback Danny Tusitala another as the Goats won their third straight championship round-robin match today. Tawa and the Old Boys University Goats have come through as the two unbeaten teams from the pack, while last year’s finalists, Hutt Old Boys Marist and Wainuiomata, remain winless after three rounds of the 2015 Jubilee Cup. Under ashen skies, Old Boys University lit up the Basin Reserve with three barnstorming second half tries to sink an injury hit Wainuiomata side 26-8, while Tawa kept their noses ahead of previously unbeaten Oriental-Rongotai to win 31-22 at the Polo Ground...More

The WRRA has been catching up with some of referees and finding out about them and why refereeing rugby is appealing. Their latest profile is Jamie Fairmaid who started refereeing 10 years ago. This weekend he will be refereeing his first Premier club game at Ngatitoa Domain. When did you start refereeing? In my first year at Wellington College in 2005. Have you belonged to any other associations? In 2014 I spent the season with the Auckland Rugby Referees Did you play rugby? Yes I played all my junior rugby for Paremata-Plimmerton and played one year at Wellington College in Year 12...More

After several rounds in reasonably good conditions the weather has turned with wet and heavy conditions underfoot likely after the rain this week, though the gales are forecast to ease for Saturday. That is likely to alter the gameplans for the sides in the Jubilee and Hardham Cups but also unlikely to slow their attacking intent. UPDATE: There are some changes to times and venues in the Women's grade and lower grades. For the competitons that we run through this website please visit Draws & Results above...More

Above: The Northern United Women’s team last Friday night with the Fleurs Trophy. First round winners Norths have a bye this Saturday.  Saturday has the start of the Championship rounds of the Women’s Competitions. After the completion of the Fleurs Trophy, the grade has been split in two for the remainder of the 2015 club season; the top five teams will contest the Premier Victoria Tavern Trophy, while the bottom four will play off for the Senior title. The pressure will be on in the Premier grade, with each side playing only four matches (plus a bye) before the semi-finals and then the final, which replaces the Colts Division 1 final as the first match up on Finals Day this year...More

Fifty seven of the Hurricanes region’s top under 18 years of age rugby players, have been selected to take part in the annual Development Camp being held in Feilding, from 6 to 10 July. Representing 21 different secondary schools, 17 of the players are from Wellington, 15 from Hawkes Bay, 11 from Manawatu, 6 from Poverty Bay, 4 from Wairarapa-Bush, 3 from Wanganui and 1 from East Coast. Camp Director and Hurricanes Development Coach Darren Larsen is looking forward to working with those who’ve been selected...More

The Old Boys University Goats are searching for that elusive Jubilee Cup title this year. Club: Old Boys UniversityHome ground: Basin ReserveCurrent Super Rugby players: Conrad Smith, Adam Hill, Ben May, Lima SopoagaJubilee Cups won: 929 (VUC),1933 (WCOB), 1946 (VUC), 1952, 1953, 1954 (VUC), 1958 (VUC), 1964 (VUC), 1966 (VUC).Last year: SixthSwindale Shield this year: SixthCoaches: Jeremy Little, Paddy Gough and Jamie WilliamsCaptain: Ian KennedySocial Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/79074970803/?fref=ts and @TheOBUGoat What is special about playing in the Jubilee Cup and what is it going to take to win? The Jubilee Cup is one of the Premier club competitions in New Zealand...More