Jubilee Cup? For match details visit Games & Results across the top of this page (teams will be published on Friday morning). Oriental-Rongotai v Hutt Old Boys Marist Top qualifier Oriental-Rongotai will make history if they can repel Hutt Old Boys Marist’s challenge in their semi-final at the Polo Ground. If so, Wellington’s fifth oldest club will reach the Jubilee Cup final for the first time since the playoff system was introduced in 1993, and then have a chance the following week of winning Wellington’s Senior championship outright for the first time since 1910...More

Oriental-Rongotai held on to earn top spot for next week's 2011 Jubilee Cup semi-finals with tenacious 12-8 win over Wainuiomata in terrible conditions in the last round, while Rimutaka earned a 26-14 victory over Hutt Old Boys Marist B to qualify for the Hardham Cup playoffs and earn promotion to next year's Swindale Shield.Ories will host Hutt Old Boys Marist's top side at the Polo Ground in one Jubilee Cup semi-final after HOBM beat winless Upper Hutt 22-5 away at Maidstone Park, while second placed qualifier Poneke and third placed Northern United will do it all again at Kilbirnie Park after Norths overran the red and blacks 19-13 on their own turf...More

The Jubilee and Hardham Finals are still a fortnight away, but for several contenders across the top two grades of Wellington club rugby their defining matches of the 2011 season are this weekend.With one spot up for grabs in the Jubilee Cup and three of the four places in the Hardham Cup as well as promotion-relegation still to be decided, this weekend's seventh and final regular season round of rugby in the top two grades promises to be colossal. Sitting at the top of the Jubilee Cup standings and with home semi-finals already booked are Orienatal-Rongotai and Poneke...More

Eastern suburbs neighbours Oriental Rongotai and Poneke will host both Jubilee Cup semi-finals in a fortnight's time after each won their round six matches with bonus points to qualify first and second respectively for the playoffs with a week to spare. In another breathtaking round on a perfect day for rugby following the previous week's tempestuous conditions, Oriental Rongotai held on to beat Northern United 32-30 in a thrill-a-minute fixture at Porirua Park and Poneke were emphatic home 44-11 winners over close neighbours Marist St...More

A highly competitive second round Jubilee Cup could come to a head as early as this weekend, but, in the case of the Hardham Cup at least, both the playoff and promotion-relegation battle looks set to go do into the final round.There will be no love lost in the Jubilee Cup, where Oriental-Rongotai became the first team to officially qualify for the playoffs on 30 July by winning their fifth straight second round victory last week against Poneke. Below Ories there are still six teams to varying degrees chasing three spots...More

Wild weather that cut through Wellington on Saturday caused chaos across many of the region's sports fields and influenced the fifth round of Jubilee and Hardham Cup matches.The ferocious storm accompanied by thunder and lightning, heavy rain and high winds from the north arrived around mid-afternoon - early in the second half of the early Hardham Cup between HOBM B and the Wests Roosters and on cue for the start of most other 3.00pm matches. At the Hutt Recreation Ground, the skies blackened and the heavens opened...More

The first semi-finalists in both the Jubilee and Hardham Cup competitions for 2011 are highly likely to be found this weekend from the winners of the two top of the table matches at the Polo Ground and the Hawkins Basin Reserve.In a colossal clash at Miramar, joint Jubilee Cup leaders and unbeaten teams Oriental-Rongotai and Poneke square off in a match that will seemingly find the first Jubilee semi-finalist for the playoffs three weeks later on 30 July.It wouldn't become clear until at least another week, but the winner of this match will probably also have enough points in the bank to earn a home semi-final and go on and press for the top qualifier's berth and the Andy Leslie trophy that Poneke has won for each of the last two years...More

Eastern Suburbs clubs Poneke and Oriental-Rongotai sit proudly on top of the Jubilee Cup after four rounds after an action-packed day that almost?certainly saw the demise of Petone's and Upper Hutt's challenges in the Jubilee Cup and a much needed win for Tawa in the Hardham Cup. Poneke and Ories are both unbeaten after four weeks of the Jubilee Cup and will both qualify for the semi-finals with two weeks to spare should they win again in next week's fifth round.On the day that saw many of the Wellington's stars make appearances, including All Blacks Piri Weepu, in his fourth match of the season for Wainuiomata, Neemia Tialata for Petone, Conrad Smith for OBU, and Cory Jane and Victor Vito off the bench for Upper Hutt and MSP, the rugby was explosive and the tries came thick and fast...More

Supporters of the three unbeaten teams in the two leading Wellington club rugby competitions - Oriental-Rongotai and Poneke in the Jubilee Cup and Old Boys-University in the Hardham Cup - will be confident of their sides safely progressing to the semi-finals if they win again this Saturday. But it's a different story for the chasing teams in both competitions, all facing crunch fourth round of matches and whose playoff aspirations and chance for title glory in early August could be gone if they lose this weekend...More

The first Vodafone Wellington Lions side of the 2011 year has been named. The squad takes on Manawatu in an ITM pre-season match at FMG Stadium in Palmerston North on Wednesday afternoon. The match doesn't carry first-class status. All players (pending full fitness) are available to play club rugby this weekend. The team is: 1. Reg Goodes (Poneke)2. Motu Matu'u (Oriental Rongotai)3. Jeff Allen (Marist St. Pat's)4. Joe Latta (Poneke)5. Christian Lloyd (Upper Hutt)6. Api Naikatini (Northern United)7...More