Above: Beauden Barrett adding to his 199 points this year for the Hurricanes. The Charles Monro Rugby Volunteer of the Year Award will lead the community accolades at next Thursday's annual New Zealand Rugby awards at a swanky inner city Auckland venue. The Charles Monro award - named after the man who introduced rugby to New Zealand in 1870 - recognises club rugby's volunteers. This year's three nominees are from Auckland, Manawatu and Wellington. Suburbs Rugby Club stalwart Gary Donovan, Manawatu junior rugby advocate Mark Andersen, and dedicated Petone Rugby Club loyalist Mike Wollett were all nominated by their respective provincial unions for their long and outstanding contributions to rugby for their club and community...More

Tuga Mativa was approached by a friend in 2015 offering him a chance to mentor the St. Mary's College First XV and Sevens teams. The Ories Premier winger was initially reluctant, but after some serious arm twisting accepted the job. Just over 12 months later St. Mary's College are the National Condor Sevens Champions defeating Hamilton Girls' High School 19-17 in the final at Sacred Heart College in Auckland today. Hamilton controlled the ball initially shifting it from side to side and breaking through when tournament MVP Jazmin Hotham scampered away...More

St. Mary's College and St. Pats Town have advanced to the Cup Quarter-finals of the Condor Sevens national secondary school tournament in Auckland after a successful first day. St. Pats Silverstream weren't so fortunate, losing all three games to be regulated to the bowl section. Wellington Boys Champions St. Pats Town were expected to advance from their group which included Thames High School, St. Paul's College (Auckland) and Christchurch Boys' High School. Town hit the ground running with a 43-0 trouncing of Thames High School...More

Three Wellington schools will this weekend make their attempt to win titles that have so far eluded the region at the Condor Sevens at Auckland’s Sacred Heart College. Boys winners St Pats Town and runners-up St Pats Silverstream will be amongst 32 starters in their field (up from 24 last year), while Girls winners St Mary’s will be amongst the favourites in their 20-team field. Town successfully defended the Wellington title they won last year on Labour Day, easing through pool play before beating Bishop Viard 26-0 in their semi-final and then Silverstream 19-7 in the decider...More

What went through your head on Sunday as the All Blacks staggered across the line in Paris?I decided I'd live blog my internal ramblings as game went on. Not always coherent, but here we go.PRE-GAMEThat strip. Well, let's see if it wins or not. Pretty much all that counts.Oh no, no singer for the anthems. Cunning, as the boys mumble through what may be God Defend, or something by Adele, it's hard to tell. Thought  that counts though.No such confusion  with La Marsellaise. Check out the lyrics if you never have...More

The place to be this weekend is Auckland’s Sacred Heart College, where many of the college games hot steppers, speedsters, and big hitters will congregate for this year’s Condor Sevens tournament. The move to Sacred Heart from its previous venue at Kelston Boys’ High School has come in part due to another expansion in the size of the tournament. Eight more boys sides have been added along with four more in the girls, taking the two fields to 32 and 20 teams respectively, so four fields will be in use...More

Locals Wainuiomata have won the sixth annual Piri Weepu Sevens at a wind-swept William Jones Park this afternoon. In the Cup final Wainuiomata defeated Petone 26-12. Piri's nephew Josh Robertson-Weepu was the hero scoring three tires, despite being yellow carded in the first half.  The scores were locked up 7-7 at halftime. Both sides were swift and strong over the ball, each winning several turnovers. Wainuiomata gradually attained a stranglehold on possession and the experience of Tau Mamea and Greg Lealofi in particular began to tell...More

Twelve men’s and four women’s teams will take the field at William Jones Park in Wainuiomata this Saturday in the sixth annual Piri Weepu Invitational 7s tournament. Teams from Horowhenua-Kapiti and Hawke’s Bay are coming down to join several Wellington club and invitational teams in this year’s event. Wellington clubs taking part are host club Wainuiomata (men’s and women’s), the Wellington Axemen, Paremata-Plimmerton, Petone, Old Boys University (men’s and women’s) and Marist St Pat’s (men’s and women’s)...More

Forty-nine players have been selected to attend the New Zealand U20 development camp, in preparation for the World Rugby Under 20 Championship in Georgia next year. Ten of these players were involved in last year’s campaign. Players selected to attend the development camp in Palmerston North from 1-7 December 2016 are: ForwardsAsafo Aumua (Wellington)         Ben Power (Wellington)    John (JP) Sauni (Auckland)    Chris Cairns (Manawatu)    Pouri Rakete -Stones (Hawke’s Bay)Alex Fidow (Wellington)    Jerry Samania (Auckland)     Ben Aumua Peseta (Wellington)    Sitiveni Paongo (Wellington)        Ezekiel Lindenmuth (Auckland)         Harrison Allan (Canterbury)         Afioga Ielemia (Auckland)        Sam Caird (Waikato)         Jacob Pierce (Auckland)       Isaia Walker-Leawere (Wellington)         Shineil Singh (Waikato)         Will Tucker (Canterbury)         Samuel Slade (Auckland)        Luke Jacobson (Waikato)   Sione Tuipulotu (Counties Manukau)  Tom Christie (Canterbury)   Slade McDowall (Otago)         Adrian Choat  (Auckland)    Du'Plessis Kirifi (Waikato)     Brayden Iose (Manawatu)         Josh Brown (Wellington)     Dylan Lam (North Harbour)Marino Mikaele-Tuu (Hawke’s Bay)  Isaiah Miller  Tasman)         BacksCaleb Korteweg (Waikato)         Lewis Gjaltema (North Harbour)Kemara Hauiti –Parapara (Wellington)         Carlos Price (Wellington)         Tiaan Falcon (Hawke’s Bay)   Matt Lansdown (Waikato)    Orbyn Leger (Counties Manukau)   Matt McKenzie (Taranaki)      Braydon Ennor (Canterbury)         Tamati Tua (Northland)         Lester Maulolo  (Wellington)         Nikolai Foliaki (Auckland)         Tima Faingaanuku (Tasman         Josh McKay (Canterbury)         Caleb Clarke (Auckland)         To'o Vaega (Auckland)         Sheldon Tovio (Waikato)         Tyler Campbell (Waikato)         Josh Buchan (Otago)        Will Jordan (Canterbury)    Not considered due to Super Rugby Commitments were: Jordie Barrett (Hurricanes)Peter Umaga Jensen (Hurricanes)Stephen Perofeta (Blues)Eri Enari (Crusaders) Players not considered due to injury were:Thomas Umaga Jensen (Otago)James Little (North Harbour)Otumaka Mausia (Auckland)Dalton Papalii (Auckland)Ryan Coxan (Waikato) Hawkes Bay Magpies and previous New Zealand U20 Assistant Coach, Craig Philpott, steps up to replace Scott Robertson as the Head Coach...More

A book chronicling the History of St. Bernard’s College rugby has been produced for the period 1946-2016. The book itself follows the fortunes of each First XV since 1957 with selected match reports and full results from 1960 onwards. There is an account of all the Lower Hutt school’s traditional matches, past and present, including the background to each fixture. Author, Mark Keating, a former old boy and First XV Coach, found that knowledge of our past was scattered amongst generations but no one had the full picture of the college’s proud history in rugby or its achievements...More