Massetti Cup

The Canterbury Rugby League community is still catching its collective breath after an incredible finish to the regular season, but this Saturday’s CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership schedule promises to deliver two pulsating semi-finals. Despite one of the most even and topsy-turvy Massetti Cup campaigns in recent memory unfolded over the past four…

A phenomenally tight and topsy-turvy CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership received an appropriately dramatic finish to the regular season – which handed Halswell Hornets and Riccarton Knights finals spots and saw Eastern Eagles miss out in agonising fashion. The fifth-placed Eagles were on course to snatch a place in the playoffs when they…

The race for the 2024 CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership finals is going down to the wire, with coaches and supporters of several clubs sure to be nervously checking score updates from across town while watching their teams’ last-round clashes. Only competition-leading Linwood Keas and last-placed Greymouth Greyhounds are guaranteed to finish the…

Linwood Keas have wrapped up the Massetti Cup with one match to spare, while the surging Hornby Panthers clinched their place in the finals – but there’s still plenty of drama to unfold in the last round of the CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership. The Keas overwhelmed Greymouth Greyhounds 40-0 at Linwood Park…

An emotional Leslie Park send-off for two Hornby Panthers icons will add an extra element to Saturday’s showdown with Halswell Hornets, which also has a major bearing on the neighbouring clubs’ CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership finals prospects.  The fourth-placed Panthers could finish the penultimate round as high as second with a win…

The race for CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership finals spots is balancing on a knife’s edge with just two weeks of the regular season remaining, following another tense round of fixtures that saw the top two teams on the Massetti Cup table tipped up. Hornby Panthers successfully defended the Thacker Shield with a…

Only Linwood Keas’ place in the CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership finals is confirmed with three weeks of the regular season remaining, while Saturday’s trio of crunch Round 12 clashes features the third grand final rematch of the year – which doubles as a Thacker Shield challenge – and the inauguration of a…

The 2024 CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership continues to surprise on a weekly basis, with Round 11 delivering upsets, form reversals and cliff-hangers that clouded the top-four picture less than a month out from the end of the regular season. Riccarton Knights bounced back from last week’s 40-point loss in Greymouth and consolidated…

The race for CRL Whitehead Plumbing & Gas Men’s Premiership playoffs spots is on a knife’s edge with four weeks of the regular season remaining – and once again all three matches in Round 11 will have a major bearing on the top-four picture. While a miraculous late charge to the finals would require a…