Above: Poneke wins the Jubilee Cup in 1975, beating a star-studded Petone in one of the great club rugby final upsets. Poneke captain Don Cederwall pictured with the Jubilee Cup and wing Peter Peilua scoring the winning try. Photo courtesy of the Evening Post. Grant Griffith was Poneke's sole Wellington A representative in the final, returning to action from injury in the second half to help lead them to a famous victory. Grant Griffith is Poneke's most capped player, with 287 appearances from the late 1960s to 1986...More

Above: All Blacks centre Conrad Smith makes a break with first five-eighth Tomasi Palu in support in OBU's heartbreaking Jubilee Cup 'virtual quarterfinal' loss to Petone in 2006. With all eight clubs involved bracing themselves for an epic last round of Jubilee Cup matches this coming weekend, here's a look back at a selection of memorable last round matches and scenarios that played out in recent seasons. 2000 Jubilee Cup: The waves part for Johnsonville On a day of drama, the Johnsonville Hawks produced one of the great fairytale finishes to clinch the last semi-final position up for grabs...More

Many of Wellington's and the Hurricanes region's hottest young players are in action this evening at Porirua Park in a match between the recently selected Hurricanes U18 team (pictured above at their training camp last week) and a Wellington U19 trial side, featuring some prominent young Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup players. The Wellington U19s representative team has a busy schedule of matches coming in August and September against the other U19 sides from Hurricanes region provincial sides and against Bay of Plenty...More

Above: Racing towards the semi-finals. Norths second five-eighth Konelio Feaunati dashes ahead to help his side book a home semi-final, and at the same time eliminate Johnsonville from the playoff race. Norths won 31-5.Updated: The Hutt Old Boys Marist Eagles have qualified top for a home Jubilee Cup semi-final and have won the Andy Leslie Trophy with a week to spare, and Wainuiomata have qualified inside the top four. But the other two semi-finalists still need to be found and all six other teams are all mathematically still in the playoff race after a dramatic penultimate round of matches today...More

Tawa second five-eighth Ezra Fermanis takes on his opposite Isaia Petelo in last week's one-point win over MSP. Tomorrow, Tawa travel to play unbeaten leaders Hutt Old Boys Marist in one of four crucial Jubilee Cup matches. Updated: If anything, last Saturday's results compressed the Jubilee Cup table and all eight sides could yet still make the semi-finals, making this weekend's games a round where the pressure will well and truly be on. The Hardham Cup is somewhat clearer cut, where the four semi-finalists could all be confirmed tomorrow...More

At the end of play on Saturday in Kilbirnie, Fa'atonu Fili (pictured above kicking for goal against the Upper Hutt Rams recently) will walk from Evans Bay Park having achieved a momentous feat, 150 games in the Wellington Premier club rugby competition for MSP. Flyhalf Fili has been a standout performer for MSP over his 14 years in the top grade having also had a brief stint with Oriental-Rongotai. Most kids in our part of the world get brought up in a rugby environment from a young age; Fa'atonu Fili is no exception to that...More

Peter Osborne - pictured above, front row second from left - was a member of the famous University side that won the Jubilee Cup three years in a row 1952-54 and again in 1958. In a star-studded side that variously fielded seven All Blacks and four at the same time in 1953 in superstar wing Ron Jarden, midfielders Jim Fitzgerald and Brian Fitzpatrick and flanker Bill Clark, Osborne was the only player to play in all four of these Jubilee Cup winning teams. What's more, Osborne played fullback so he had the best seat in the house...More

Club: PonekeTeam name: RuffnutsTeam mascot: Ruffnuts Squirrel Home ground: Kilbirnie ParkSocial Media: Twitter: @PonekeRuffnuts Facebook: www.facebook.com/PonekeRuffnutsWhat's the meaning of the team's nickname? One of our foundation players Vailei Fasitua came up with the name back in 1998 and it just stuck with us ever since. As for the meaning of the nickname - we're still trying to figure out what it means! ?Team origins? In 1997,Talia Belford and Jeffery Hague, both Wellington College old boys while students at Victoria University, discussed the idea of forming a social rugby team made up of Wellington College old boys...More

Above: Norths fullback Jamie McIntosh about to score her try on Saturday in her side's 22-6 win over first round Women's winners Ories on Saturday. Photo by Dave Lintott. McIntosh scored one and set up another as Norths reversed their two-point defeat to Ories earlier in the season. Defending champions Northern United and 2012 winners Wainuiomata are the two unbeaten teams after three weekends of the second round Premier Women's Victoria Tavern Trophy competition. On Saturday, Norths reversed their narrow defeat to first round Fleurs Trophy winners Oriental-Rongotai with a 22-6 victory over Ories, while Wainuiomata defeated the Old Boys University Nanny Goats 24-15...More

Upper Hutt Rams replacement loose forward Taniela Manu sets off to score one of two tries with a few minutes left that sunk Old Boys University 34-30 at the Basin Reserve New Zealand's leading community sports competition just got a bit more exciting this afternoon. Not one, but two remarkable come-from-behind wins in the Jubilee Cup has made the race to the 2014 playoffs one of the most exciting in years. The two headline results today in the Jubilee Cup were Petone's 27-25 win over Wainuiomata and the Upper Hutt Rams' 34-30 victory over Old Boys University...More