Heartland Championship

North Otago wins Meads Cup in Heartland Championship North Otago celebrates with their third Meads Cup in the 14th season of the Heartland Championship.North Otago celebrates with their third Meads Cup in the 14th season of the Heartland Championship. North Otago have won their first Meads Cup since 2010 after a superb

Thames Valley finished top of the table in the Mitre 10 Heartland Rugby championship when beating King Country 37-15 on Saturday. That ensured the defending Meads Cup champions home advantage in next week's semifinals. Only three points separated the top four teams who will contest the trophy They will face a tough

North Otago moved three points clear in the Mitre 10 Heartland competition this week when goal-kicker Robbie Smith landed a last-second penalty goal to beat Thames Valley 22-21 in Oamaru on Saturday. With previous unbeaten West Coast going down to a Wanganui side 18-36 for its first win over the season,

Down in the unfamiliar position of 11th on the Mitre 10 Heartland Championship points table and after conceding a competition record seven penalty kicks last Saturday, Steelform Wanganui knew Tuesday night training was going be a 'come-to-Jesus' moment. And so it has proved as Wanganui coaches Jason Caskey and Jason Hamlin

    Venue: Cooks Gardens Date: 31-08-2019 Home Team: Steelform Wanganui Visiting Team: Thames Valley Referee: Rebecca Mahoney Captain: Roman Tutauha No. 1 Gabriel  HAKARAIA 2 Roman  TUTAUHA 3 Kamipeli  LATU 4 Sam  MADAMS 5 Josh  LANE 6 Samu  KUBUNAVANUA 7 Jamie  HUGHES 8 Bryn  HUDSON 9 Tyler  ROGERS-HOLDEN 10 Dane  WHALE 11 Tom  SYMES 12 Ethan  ROBINSON 13 Shai  WIPERI 14 Vereniki  TIKOISOLOMONE 15 Nick  HARDING REPLACEMENTS : 16 Joseph  EDWARDS 17 Wiremu  COTTRELL 18 Jack  HODGES 19 Ranato  TIKOISOLOMONE 20 Chris  BREUER 21 Cameron  DAVIES 22 Josaia  BOGILEKA The Following is from the Whanganui Chronicle By: Jared Smith, Jared Smith is sports editor of the Whanganui Chronicle There will be quite the thirst for redemption across the new-look Steelform Wanganui team that has to front on Cooks Gardens in

Nothing lasts forever. Steelform Wanganui's undefeated Mitre 10 Heartland season ground to a halt at Cooks Gardens on Saturday, as a multitude of handling errors and a malfunctioning lineout played right into the hands of first-time Meads Cup semifinalists Thames Valley, whose powerful pack guided them to a no-frills 17-7 boilover. After

Thames Valley pulled off the surprise result of the Mitre 10 Heartland season when ending Wanganui's three year run of success in the Meads Cup when claiming a 17-7 win at Cook's Gardens in Wanganui on Saturday. As a result, South Canterbury, who scored an impressive 58-21 win over King Country

Steelform Wanganui have completed an unbeaten Mitre 10 Heartland Championship round robin and regained the Bruce Steel Memorial Cup with a 57-27 win over Horowhenua-Kapiti. Wanganui stormed out to a 26-3 halftime lead - in what was a rematch of last year's Meads Cup final - with a clinical performance across

It was a little harder than a typical day at the beach, but Steelform Wanganui recorded their seventh straight win and raised their biggest score of the Mitre 10 Heartland Championship season with a 56-10 win over East Coast on Saturday. With coach Jason Caskey taking a squad consisting of younger

It took a little while to wrench the gear stick up into fifth, but Steelform Wanganui eventually got there as six unanswered tries took them to a deceptively comfortable 45-14 win over Buller at Cooks Gardens on Saturday. The sixth straight victory in the 2018 Mitre 10 Heartland campaign was not