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Kiwi Ferns Recognition Caps Watershed Year For Canterbury Women
Women’s rugby league has enjoyed a massive upsurge throughout New Zealand and Australia in recent years, and that trend was reflected in Canterbury during a bumper 2016. In a watershed season for the code, a spike in women’s playing numbers ensured one of the strongest Canterbury club competitions ever staged...
CRL Celebrates Year of High Achievement at Awards Evening
Celebrating a year of high achievement and looking ahead to an incredibly exciting period of growth and opportunity were the main themes on Canterbury Rugby League’s night of nights, the 2016 Awards Evening, held at Hornby Workingmen’s Club on Friday. A bumper club season, another impressive campaign from the Rockcote...
Canterbury Rugby League Senior Prizegiving Award Winners
A full rundown of the award winners from the 2016 Canterbury Rugby League Senior Prizegiving night, held at Hornby Workingmen’s Club on Friday, October 28. CLUB Presidents 10-a-side: Sydenham Swans Preseason Challenge Cup: Linwood Keas Division Two Parata Shield – Grand Final winners: Hornby Panthers Division One Kidd Mitchell Cup:...
Bulls Fall Just Short of Final Despite Win Over Falcons
The Canterbury Bulls surged to a remarkable 38-26 come-from-behind defeat of the Akarana Falcons at AMI Stadium, but it was not enough to snare a place in the NZRL National Premiership final alongside the Counties Manukau Stingrays. The Stingrays secured the first final berth earlier in the day with an...
Bumper Weekend of Rep Action at Wainoni Park
It’s been a bumper month for representative rugby league in New Zealand, with the National Premiership and Championship competitions wrapping up on Saturday, and the Youth Nationals 15s and 17s tournaments taking place in Rotorua this week. The South Island Scorpions 15s finished their outstanding campaign in fifth, while the...
Bulls Put Aside Final Scenario Ahead of Falcons Clash
We needed a calculator to work out the Round 3 permutations that can pitch the Canterbury Bulls into their third straight NZRL National Premiership final, but coach Andrew Auimatagi insists his team has to ignore the for-and-against scenarios if they’re to prevail in Sunday’s daunting home assignment against Akarana Falcons....
Promising Signs For Bulls In First-up Loss
Canterbury Bulls coach Andrew Auimatagi is taking plenty of positives out of his side’s first outing of the 2016 NZRL National Premiership, despite the 36-22 loss to Counties Manukau Stingrays representing a missed opportunity to take a big step towards qualifying for the final of the revamped competition. The Bulls...
Stingrays Outlast Bulls In Season Opener
Defending NZRL National Premiership champions Counties Manukau Stingrays opened their campaign with a 36-22 win over a gutsy Canterbury Bulls outfit in a rematch of the 2015 final at Mt Smart Stadium. The Bulls rebounded from a 12-point deficit to level the scores by halftime and grabbed the lead early...
New Skipper Baxendale Primed For Bulls’ Campaign
Canterbury Bulls veteran James Baxendale has barely had time to catch his breath from Hornby’s grand final loss to Linwood before heading straight into another representative campaign. But the added honour of taking over as his province’s skipper has provided the 30-year-old with extra drive for the 2016 NZRL National...
Bulls Launch 2016 Premiership Campaign
Pride. Unity. Integrity. Grit. These are core values that will drive Canterbury Bulls’ 2016 season, as revealed by new coach Andrew Auimatagi at the team’s season launch on Wednesday night. The Bulls’ players and management, Canterbury Rugby League Board members, CRL staff, sponsors and supporters gathered at Hornby Working Men’s...
Keas Dedicate Win To ‘The Godfather’
BY MAT KERMEEN – THE PRESS A Christchurch rugby league club have celebrated Father's Day by honouring the man they called The Godfather. Less than two hours after Linwood Keas captain Agaese Fiso lifted the Pat Smith Memorial Trophy at AMI Stadium on Sunday, the Keas stood around Teni Tuli's...
CRL Grand Final Preview
Photo: Hornby Panthers' Corey Lawrie (left), and Linwood Keas' Aga Fiso (centre) and Paul Sauni pose with the Pat Smith Trophy at AMI Stadium. KEAS PRIMED TO HEED LESSONS OF 2015 Last year’s grand final loss still stings for the Linwood Keas, but coach Andrew Auimatagi is confident his team...
