Swindale Shield round two: Wellington club rugby fans were kept on their edge of their seats on Saturday in a tightly fought second round set of Swindale Shield matches played, in fine and blustery conditions. A series of competitive games made for tense finishes in four of the six matches, including one draw and two that went right down to the wire. After two rounds there are four unbeaten teams led by Petone and Poneke who each have one bonus point win from their opening two encounters. There was a 10-10 draw at Nairnville Park between the Wests Roosters and Old Boys-University where, for the second week in a row, the Roosters were pipped for valuable competition points at the death...More

In two mouthwatering early season Swindale Shield encounters, four of this year's favoured teams are in action against each other in this weekend's second round. In a repeat of last year's Jubilee Cup semi-finals, big first round winners Petone Randwick Meats host Northern United at the Petone Recreation Ground and Marist St. Pat's and Poneke square off at Evans Bay Park in one of Wellington club rugby's keenest rivalries. ?Both these games promise to be mighty clashes, given the results of last weekend's first round set of Swindale Shield matches, of last year's Jubilee Cup playoffs and the terrifically close recent history of results between these teams...More

The first day of the 2009 Wellington club rugby season was sizzling and so was the rugby, as Petone and Poneke both impressed with bonus point wins on the opening round Gala Day held at Porirua and Trentham Memorial Parks. Both grabbed decisive wins as temperatures soared at both grounds, Petone laying down their title credentials with an 86-9 win over Avalon at Porirua and Poneke ousting super club Northern United 34-19 at Trentham.Petone made no?contest of it against Avalon to retain the Morgan Family Trophy, pulling ahead from a 36-9 halftime lead to eventually score 13 tries including four to new recruit Fraser Middleton...More

A much-anticipated 2009 Wellington club rugby season kicks off with this Saturday's Gala Day at Porirua and Trentham Memorial Parks. For passion, drama, intensity and excitement, some of the very best sporting stories in Wellington are found on the playing fields of the Swindale Shield, Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup competitions so make sure to get out there and support your team in this year's season opening weekend.Twelve clubs are again doing battle for Swindale Shield supremacy over an eleven-week round robin competition, before the top eight finishing teams from the first round vie for the coveted Jubilee Cup that culminates in the season ending final at Westpac Stadium in August...More

A much-anticipated 2009 Wellington club rugby season kicks off with this Saturday's Gala Day at Porirua and Trentham Memorial Parks. For passion, drama, intensity and excitement, some of the very best sporting stories in Wellington are found on the playing fields of the Swindale Shield, Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup competitions so make sure to get out there and support your team in this year's season opening weekend.Twelve clubs are again doing battle for Swindale Shield supremacy over an eleven-week round robin competition, before the top eight finishing teams from the first round vie for the coveted Jubilee Cup that culminates in the season ending final at Westpac Stadium in August...More

Visit?http://www.clubrugby.co.nz/wellington/games-results.php?to see which of your favourite players are lining up for their teams in tomorrow's first round of the Swindale Shield. Remember, the Premier?teamlists are published online?here every Friday morning and on the Club Weekly newsletter that is distributed around the grounds on Saturday's. ?More

Hardham Cup final. Westpac Stadium 9 August: Tawa 33 (Na Ioane 2, Pati Gaualofa, Etuale Togia Tries; Juice Finau, Gene Johnston Con; Johnston 3 Pen) Wainuiomata 20 (Mike Lealava'a, Jason Love Tries; Lealava 2 Con, 2 Pen)HT: Wainui 20-8. Hardham Cup final: Tawa played with patience and composure to defeat reigning Hardham Cup champions Wainuiomata 33-20 at Westpac Stadium. Playing first into a stiff southerly, Tawa conceded 20 first half points to trail 20-8 at the break. Only midway through the second spell did the round robin champions nose ahead, before going on to make the margin comfortable...More

Jubilee Cup final. Westpac Stadium 9 August: Marist St Pat's 10 (Peter Sciascia Try; Fa'atonu Fili Con; Pen) Northern United 10 (Francis Seumanutafa; Sio Thomas Tries)?HT: MSP 10-0. Jubilee Cup final: The 2008 Jubilee Cup title has been shared between Marist St. Pat's and Northern United who battled to a 10-all draw in the final at a cold and wet Westpac Stadium on Saturday evening. Nothing could separate the two sides after 80 minutes of hard fought end-to-end rugby, meaning the Championship will be shared for the first time?since 1982 when Wellington and Petone jointly held the Jubilee Cup aloft, and for the first time since the current semi-finals and final system was introduced in 1993...More

Defending champions Wainuiomata arrive at Westpac Stadium today to contest their third consecutive Hardham Cup final against Tawa, the best team of this year's second round competition. Both teams come here having enjoyed equally comfortable wins in last week's semi-finals, unbeaten Tawa breezing past the Wests Roosters 33-24 and Wainuiomata accounting for Avalon 26-6.?They meet each other for the third time this year following Wainuiomata's 21-12 win in the Swindale Shield round and Tawa winning 48-14 in the round-robin played several weeks ago...More

This year's Jubilee Cup final pits the best performing Wellington Premier team of the last three decades against the top team of the last five years. Today Marist St. Pat's will be gunning for their 12th Jubilee Cup in the last 30 years since they won their first in 1978. That would give them a winning strike-rate of one every 2.5 years, a record in Wellington club rugby comparable with the all-conquering Ian Upston-coached Petone teams of the late 1960s and 1970s. But the Red Machine hasn't won the coveted Jubilee Cup for six years when they beat Old Boys-University in the 2002 final, despite making two finals since in 2003 and 2007...More