Experienced Pirates and Otago Spirit player Kilisitina Moata’ane and Green Island and Otago second five Ray Nu’u have taken top honours in club rugby awards.
Paul Dwyer chats to Hedge Bezett from Green Island ahead of this weekend's celebrations at the rugby club and Phil Keighley from Clutha RC who is celebrating 300 games.
This week Paul chats to Dunedin RFC's Mark Grieve Dunn (150 games) and Greg O'Brien (President) ahead of the club's 150th anniversary celebrations this weekend.
Up on the High Veldt the Sharks turned over the previously unbeaten MAQ’s (Kaik) to start the Gallaway with a bang but lost seven players in the process, with a couple of season-ending injuries, so it came at a massive cost.
Paul chats to Kadin Brocks, Kaikorai RC and Bruce Kauika-Petersen, Harbour RC ahead of this weekend's games, which mark the start of the Gallaway Trophy.
Well, last weekend proved one thing: I don’t know anything about club rugby and that was well and truly brought to fruition as I picked none from four in town, but in my defence I’m on fire in the country.
We’ve been giving the round-ball code far too much prominence in the past couple of weeks so it’s time for the winter sport heavyweight to get back into action — club rugby. Well that’s not quite correct — they are playing in the South Otago comp. In fact, this is the third game this weekend.