Waikato coach Chris Gibbes today announced his side for the first round robin game of the ITM Cup, to take on Southland this Friday night at Rugby Park Stadium in Invercargill. Waikato Head Coach Chris Gibbes said “we are all looking forward to getting our campaign under way for 2011. Southland are a fierce...
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Rugby Southland CEO Roger Clark has been appointed General Manager of the Highlanders’ Super Rugby franchise. Clark has for the last four months been the Highlanders’ Project Manager on a secondment funded by the New Zealand Rugby Union, and has played an important role in both the on and off field re-structuring of the...
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Popular All Blacks, Highlanders and Southland halfback Jimmy Cowan has re-signed with the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) and Rugby Southland through until the end of 2012, it was announced today. The re-signing will see the Highlanders captain play his provincial rugby for Southland and Super Rugby for the Highlanders for the next three...
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The nominees for this year’s Steinlager Rugby Awards, New Zealand’s premier rugby awards, have been announced. The Steinlager Rugby Awards recognise and acknowledge the achievements of New Zealand’s teams, coaches, players, referees and volunteers in 2009. The ceremony will be held at the SkyCity Convention Centre, Auckland, on Thursday 17 December and broadcast live...
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Canterbury celebrated their first back-to-back successes in the Air New Zealand cup in Christchurch on Saturday night, beating Wellington by three tries to two in a 28-20 victory. Canterbury, led 25-10 after 60 minutes, but found themselves only five points ahead in a tense final six minutes, and down to fourteen men with fullback...
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It has taken up to the second to last game of the regular season but the semifinals for the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup have been confirmed with Canterbury and Wellington to host the knock-out matches against Hawke’s Bay and Southland respectively. The results were dependent on this evening’s Waikato-Auckland clash in Hamilton. Waikato’s...
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Hawke’s Bay slip out of the top four after going down at home to Canterbury. Tries by James Paterson, Richie McCaw, and Dan Carter, plus a handful of penalties and conversions by Carter did just enough to overcome game opposition, mostly from the boot of Matt Berquist, who supplied fifteen of the home side’s twenty...
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