Above: Wearing their distinctive club colours, the Centurions U18 team shakes hands with the visiting East Coast U18s after their match last weekend at the Petone Recreation Ground. UPDATED: While the 2014 rugby season is winding down for many clubs it's getting busy for the Centurions Rugby Football Club, with two teams taking the field over the next few weeks and the club's 75th anniversary celebrations just around the corner. This year the Centurions club is fielding an U85 kg side as well as an U18 one, with both teams set to be in action next Saturday when the U85 kg team takes the field for a one-off match against North Harbour on neutral territory in Taupo...More

Above: Sheridan Rangihuna giving it a rip for Hutt Old Boys Marist against Old Boys University in Wellington Premier rugby earlier this year. Wellington Lion, Sheridan Rangihuna, spent much of his youth learning our great national sport in bare feet on frosty mornings at Trentham Memorial Park in Upper Hutt. Fast-forward some 15 years, Rangihuna has now settled himself into the Wellington Lions set-up, earning a starting role last Friday evening. However, there is much more to know about the young halfback's rise to the professional ranks...More

Former All Black Captain Buck Shelford is putting together a whole new team, and this time he's making a play to improve the state of men's health in New Zealand.Death Threat?is a ten part television series hosted by Buck and his team of health professionals, New Zealander of the Year Dr Lance O'Sullivan, Professor Grant Schofield, head of AUT's Human Potential Unit and Nutritionist Hereni Marshall that will join TV One's Saturday afternoon men's line up starting at 3pm on September 20th...More

Above: Wing Bernie Fraser crosses for his 100th first-class try, for Wellington against Marlborough in 1982. Photo credit: Winds of Change, Wellington's Rugby History 1979-2004. By WRFU and David Ogilvie 2004. Page 60. Ahead of the Ricoh Wellington Lions' next ITM Cup against the Tasman Makos this coming Sunday, kick-off 4.35 pm, we throwback to 17 June 1982 when champion wing three-quarter Bernie Fraser scored his 100th first-class try. Wellington's first home match of the 1982 season at Athletic Park was significant for two reasons...More

Above: Jeff Toomaga-Allen meets Wainuiomata in MSP's Jubilee Cup semi-final at William Jones Park at the end of July. The Hurricanes have secured the services of three key forwards as they look to strengthen their 2015 Investec Super Rugby squad. ?Props Jeffery Toomaga-Allen (Marist St Pat's) and Reggie Goodes (Poneke), along with loose forward Ardie Savea (Oriental-Rongotai), have all res-signed with the Hurricanes until the end of the 2016 season. While all three have been side-lined with injury during the 2014 ITM Cup, Goodes (concussion) should appear again before the end of the season, while Toomaga-Allen (knee) and Savea (shoulder) are expected to return to full-time training when the preseason kicks off...More

Above: The Wellington and Taranaki U19s fighting hard for possession in their Hurricanes U19 Seeding Tournament match today. The Wellington U19s and the Wellington U18s had contrasting wins today over Taranaki and Wairarapa-Bush opposition, while the Wellington Development side defeated the Wellington Samoans and the Wellington Pride went down to Canterbury. Wellington U19s 25 - Taranaki U19s 20 Two tries by Wellington halfback Luke Campbell made the difference in a hard-fought 25-20 win to the Wellington U19s over the Taranaki U19s in the second match of their National U19 Seeding Tournament...More

Above: The Wellington and Manawatu U19s pack down a scrum in their match last week at Palmerston North. Wellington plays Taranaki at Porirua Park tomorrow, while Manawatu meet Hawke's Bay. A big day of local representative tomorrow at the Petone Recreation Ground and Porirua Park launches the countdown to the All Blacks meeting South Africa in their Rugby Championship Test matches at Westpac Stadium in the evening. Wellington representative teams in action tomorrow afternoon include the Wellington Development, Wellington Samoans, Wellington U19s, Wellington 18s, Wellington U18 Centurions, and two Academy fixtures are also being played...More

Above: Halfback Charlie Henderson gets a pass away, with Wellington front rowers, hooker Kevin Horan (left) and captain and prop Al Keown watching on in support. Photo credit: The Dominion 18/9/1978. Wing Bernie Fraser scored a then Wellington record four tries in a single NPC/ITM Cup match and the man on the other wing, Stu Wilson, was also on fire as part of Wellington's emphatic 29-7 victory over defending champions Canterbury at Athletic Park on 16 September 1978 to effectively seal the first of four of Wellington's title wins to date...More

Above: A top bloke - Adam Hill signing autographs after the Wellington Lions' first match this season against Waikato. Adam Hill has received another start at openside for the Wellington Lions as they look to notch up their first win of the season this Friday. It doesn't get any easier for the youthful squad as they travel down south to face table-topping Canterbury. Despite only playing in his second season for the Lions, Hill has become a leader of the pack, with some rugged performances and Super Rugby experience from earlier this year...More

Jack Lam playing for the Hurricanes earlier this year. The All Blacks could be playing against Ories flanker Lam and Norths players Alapati Leiua and Faifili Levave and others when? they meet in a Test in Apia next July. Wednesday 8 July next year promises to be a watershed day for rugby in the South Pacific. Not only will it likely mark the mid-point of the 2015 Jubilee Cup round-robin, but it will be the day that the All Blacks and Samoa play a long-awaited Test match in Samoa. The All Blacks have previously played five Tests against Samoa and one against the Pacific Islands, but all have been in New Zealand...More