Updated Sunday: Oriental-Rongotai are out in front of the Jubilee Cup field after three rounds, holding on to beat Hutt Old Boys Marist in a 10-try thriller at a glorious Hutt Recreation Ground on Saturday. Ories earned their third consecutive bonus point victory in their 36-31 win over Hutt Old Boys Marist, to sit a point ahead of the other unbeaten team Poneke with a month of regular season remaining in 2011. Ories won the game with a decisive four-try, 26-point* burst just before and after halftime, reeling in a 7-19 deficit and then holding off the Eagles who came back at them and kept attacking right up to the final whistle...More

An opening fortnight of topsy-turvy results in the both the Jubilee and Hardham Cups makes for another exciting afternoon of Premier and Premier 2 rugby this Saturday. After two rounds of the Jubilee Cup, only unbeaten Poneke and Ories can bring any recent consistent form to the table this week while winless Petone are in must-win territory if they want to make this year's playoffs. It's a similar story in the Hardham Cup, where two out the three unbeaten sides after two matches are ‘B' teams and Premier side Tawa are yet to get off the mark...More

A momentous win for the Hutt Old Boys Marist Eagles over defending champions Northern United and clinical bonus point wins for Oriental-Rongotai, Poneke and Marist St. Pat’s have thrown the Jubilee Cup wide open after two rounds. At Porirua Park, Hutt Old Boys Marist survived a late comeback in which the home side scored two late tries to beat Northern United 20-19 and register their most important win of the season. Beaten up by Poneke in round one, HOBM came out firing against the Norths side who were missing their points scoring fullback James So’oialo, up in Samoa for a World Cup trial, but still containing some big guns in their pack such as Jacob Ellison, Api Naikatini and Dean Brunsdon...More

Wellington sports fans will be spoiled for choice when they decide which Jubilee or Hardham game they go to this Saturday before heading to Westpac Stadium to watch several of their favourite players play their final games in Hurricanes colours. At least four of Wellington club rugby's favourite sons - Oriental Rongtotai's Ma'a Nonu, Petone's Neemia Tialata and Northern United's John Schwalger and Anthony Perenise - will be bringing down the curtain on their Hurricanes careers...More

Wainuiomata's fantastic 2011 season got even better when they beat Jubilee Cup super-club Petone 22-20 in the first round on Saturday. Wainuiomata streaked to a 19-10 lead midway through the second half with a sizzling try to wing Jason Love and then held on to beat the Villagers. The green and blacks were joined in the first round winner's circle by Oriental Rongotai, Northern United and Poneke on a wet afternoon of rugby that was great for the start of the Jubilee and Hardham Cups. Ories, Norths and Poneke grabbed contrasting wins...More

Jubilee Cup Can Northern United be stopped? That is a question that will be answered over the next couple of months by the seven other contenders currently awaiting the starter’s gun for this year’s 83rd edition of the coveted Jubilee Cup, all wanting a shot at the champions and a chance to capture Wellington sport’s greatest prize. Norths are three-time defending Swindale Shield champions and four time Jubilee Cup champions since winning their first in 2004. Having just become the first team to win three first round titles in succession in the decade and a half since Marist St...More

Marist St. Pat’s and Upper Hutt emerged from a thrilling final round of Swindale Shield matches to grab the last two places for the Jubilee Cup round, the pair qualifying for the Jubilee Cup with contrasting last round wins. Heading into the final afternoon of Swindale Shield matches, MSP, Upper Hutt and Old Boys-University were battling it out between them for the two spots still available. Upper Hutt just needed to beat the Wests Roosters at home at Maidstone Park to make it, which would then leave MSP and OBU in a straight shoot out for the last spot in their clash at the Hawkins Basin Reserve...More

Wellington rugby fans, near and far, will be glued to their earpieces and communications devices for the outcome of this week's last round humdinger at the Hawkins Basin Reserve between Old Boys-University and Marist St. Pat's. At stake is a secure spot in the Jubilee Cup, with the loser likely to face the cold steel door of relegation that leads to the second tier Hardham Cup for the rest of the season. For super-club MSP, who were formed in 1971 and last played in the Hardham Cup in 1975, it's not an inviting prospect...More

At halftime all the signs pointed to a big win for Wellington College over a lacklustre St. Pat’s Silverstream that was struggling to play with any conviction and making mistakes aplenty. The scoreboard read: Wellington College 21 - Silverstream 3. But fast forward 35 minutes to the end of the match and up stepped starting five-eighth Aviata Silago, now at centre, to take the shot of his life. From 45-metres out and with Wellington College’s supporters on the terrace in full voice, Silago‘s death-knock penalty never looked like missing and his team had grabbed a thrilling 24-21 victory over their arch-rivals...More

It was a Mamea triple act at Evans Bay Park on Saturday with the brothers, wing Isaiah, midfielder Tau and blindside flanker Genesis, helping to fire Wainuiomata to an emphatic 44-27 win over Marist St. Pat's and to a spot in the Jubilee Cup round starting in a fortnight. The Mameas and openside flanker Greg Leolofi, continuing his hot 2011 club rugby form, were at the heart of the six tries to four win for the green and blacks to seal a historic spot in the top eight in their fifth season of trying since earning re-promotion to the Premier grade at the end of 2006...More