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Last Weekend's Senior Grade Results - 12 May 2012
PREMIER
Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 20 Enterprise Cars OBM 16
Larsawn Ngatapa 16 Emerre & Hathaway HSOB 13
YMP bye
SENIOR ONE
OBM 20 Horouta 18
Wairoa Athletic 20 Harvest Transport Ngatapa 0
GMC Ormondo’s Waikohu (Result to be confirmed)
HSOB bye
NZ Army pre-season home game confirmed (Monday 14 May 2012)
Poverty Bay Heartland Rep team will be contesting a pre-season match against NZ Army on Sunday, 19 August 2012.
NZ Army head coach, Tim Kareko, is very keen to play a warm-up match against a Heartland Provincial Union to assist their build-up for the NZ Defenses National Rugby Tournament. This will be their first game of the season following a trial tournament from where he will make his selection.
Conversely, Poverty Bay Heartland Team Head Coach, Grainger Heikell is also looking forward to a hard, competitive match before the Heartland Rugby competitive season kicks-off a week later. Grainger says, "This is a great opportunity to test our team and show our wares in front of a home crowd. The match will also provide an opportunity to rally community support for the squad. The players respond well when a big home crowd is behind them and this would be a perfect build-up for the start of the season."
The NZ Army game is the first of five home games for Poverty Bay before play-offs are decided in the Heartland Competition. The last of the home games will be a doozey against East Coast on 13 October.
New Patron named for Poverty Bay Rugby (Wednesday 2nd May 2012)
Keith Webber was presented with the Patron's medal at a function in the Poverty Bay Rugby Referees Room at Rugby Park this afternoon. Keith was successfully awarded this honour following his nomination being accepted by the PBRFU Executive Committee in March.
Many stories were shared by his peers about Keith's rugby involvement in this region since the 1950s from starting as a speedy winger during his playing days, coaching the Whatatutu rugby side to referreeing in the district.
Junior Rugby has started! (Monday 29th April 2012)
JAB Rugby kicked off last weekend. There are 10 more additional teams registered in 2012 when compared with last years registrations.
Aspiring Heartland Players
In order to help our players develop and club & rep rugby standard to improve, I will be implementing individual and mini-unit skill development sessions through March – May. The plan is to have fortnightly 60 minute sessions with drills & activities focused on individual skill and decision making. These will be fun & educational sessions and whilst not compulsory we would like to see lots of those players wanting to be considered for Heartland selection in 2012. The first session is planned for Wednesday 7 March, 6.30pm - 7.30pm, Rugby Park - look forward to seeing you there.
Life Members Announced (Thursday 15th December 2011)
Last night the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union held its 122nd Annual General Meeting - Long time rugby administrators and supports Tony Coutts and Dick Glover were awarded the highest honour in Poverty Bay Rugby - life membership. It is outstanding achievement and the Union is very proud to add two more worthy life members.
Tony Coutts (left) and Dick Glover
Poverty Bay's Representative Team Winners Announced (Thursday 17th November 2011)
Last night the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union held its annual Rugby awards at the home of rugby here in the Poverty Bay area – More FM Rugby Park. The night saw awards given to all representative ages – Under 13, 14, 16, 18, 20’s, the Poverty Bay B Team, the Poverty Bay Maori Team and of course this years Lochore Cup Champions – our very own Heartland team. The surpreme award for the Paul Sceats Memorial Cup (Player of the year) went to Sione Ngatu, who of course was the sole Poverty Bay representative in this years Heartland 15, coached by Poverty Bay Heartland Coach Grainger Heikell. Poverty Bay Rugby CEO Mark Weatherall said “We have some great players within our region and the challenge for the Poverty Bay Union is to ensure we create every possible opportunity to retain these top players going forward”. “Tonight was a great opportunity to recoginse those players who stood out in the respective teams” Click here for photos from the night. For a full list of winners click here.
Poverty Bay Lochore Cup Champions (Sunday 9th October 11)
The mighty Poverty Bay Heartland team had an outstanding win over South Canterbury today in Timaru - winning 49-22. The game was a had fought affair for the first 40mins before the bay put their foot down in the second 40 with a number of outstanding tries. Click here for photos from the game. Well done to Grainger, Scotty and the team!
Read the Gisborne Herald for the full match report - click here