Tag: rugby

RWC: Where to watch the ‘breakfast games’?

This is a cry for help!
Can someone out there leave ideas, sug­ges­tions and even actu­al loc­a­tions for those people, of a rugby fol­low­ing tend­ency, that wish to watch the Monday morn­ing pool games (start­ing this Monday, 10th – get the sched­ule for Out­look, Google and oth­ers).

With­in the Wel­ling­ton CBD we mean.

The games tend to start around 6am and the Wel­ling­tonista has dis­covered that most ‘rugby-type’ ven­ues aren’t open­ing until their nor­mal time of 7am due to licens­ing restric­tions.

Now, whilst alco­hol at 6am on a ‘school day’ isn’t a desired kick off (although some sort of cof­fee and break­fast is) the licens­ing issues does lim­it the num­ber of places open for busi­ness with the TV on.

That’s where we (rugby fol­low­ing people) need your help.

Leave as many sug­ges­tions (play nicely people) for ven­ues and the win­ner* gets a free break­fast on the author.

* chosen by the author using the author’s intric­ate and secret rules

Mana College v. Wellington College

If you’re stuck for some­thing to do next Monday night, you could do worse than to head to Pori­rua Park for the final of Wel­ling­ton’s premi­er one grade school­boy rugby com­pet­i­tion. The match is to be played between Mana Col­lege and Wel­ling­ton Col­lege.

As detailed in a story in the Dom Post, Mana has made a dra­mat­ic rise through the grades after start­ing the year in premi­er two and being pro­moted mid-sea­son, and to have made it to the final is nigh-on mira­cu­lous.

More, includ­ing much politi­cised froth­ing, after the jump

Hurricanes beat Blues

I would have used some sort of pun based on the word ‘Hur­ricane’, but, well… Blues blown off park [NZ Her­ald] Second-half blitz blows Blues away [Domin­ion Post] Hur­ricanes storm to win over Blues [The Age] Hur­ricanes blow past Blues in open­er [Sport­ing Life] Hur­ricanes storm home as new­comers face real­ity [RNZ] Gah! Any­way, the […]