Aleki Morris bags 3 tries for Harbour Hawks
Taieri’s slide down the leaderboard continued when the Eels lost 28-3 to University. It has slipped to seventh place in the standings. However, Taieri did deny the competition frontrunner a bonus point. Harbour smashed Pirates 52-10 with Aleki Morris plundering three tries. Green Island scored in the dying moments to beat Alhambra-Union 31-24 after trailing […]
Harbour Hawks – “Dumped Taieri coach standing by club”
ODT writeup please click on Link http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/rugby/384727/rugby-disappointed-vaafusuaga-standing-club Taieri made the decision to replace Vaafusuaga at a meeting on Monday night. Club president John Freeland cited the team’s poor performance as the reason for Vaafusuaga’s dismissal. Vaafusuaga was reluctant to comment when contacted yesterday, saying he did not want to detract from the club. “The […]
Harbour Rugby – ODT Kick for Touch, Taieri Coach Sacked
Sacking of ‘Erik V’ huge overreaction Varsity predictably was too good for AU and the Pony Pit boys are going nowhere fast as their injury toll rises – season gone for them. The word is Varsity could play its strongest team of the year against the Eels this weekend – that is ominous for all! […]
Harbour Hawks Nualia (Ratu) Dawai Selected in Fiji Training Squad
On behalf of all your harbour hawks supporters we wish you all the best and a successful tournament Bula! A Huge congratulations to Otago and Harbours Naulia Dawai on being announced in the training squad for the ‘Flying Fijians’, who will take part in the 2016 Pacific Nations Cup. This is an awesome achievement for […]
Harbour’s loss Varsity’s gain
Dunedin 15 Harbour 12 In some of the worst conditions this writer has seen in terms of a combination of wind and rain, Dunedin ground out a meritorious win, led by its committed pack. The southerly howled up the harbour carrying rain, sand and the odd crayfish. The entire game was played down the touch […]
Harbour Rugby – Kick for touch odt writeup
Paul Dwyer giuves his take on the club rugby scene. The wrap Southern got the five points over GI to get its season back on track and get within five points of the four. But it was a turgid old affair and Southern scored two tries in injury time to win by a flattering margin. […]
Harbour Hawks – presentation of the Speights Cup
The presentation of this cup will be this Saturday 21 May @ Watson Park, Port Chalmers. There is a home game this weekend Harbour Vrs Dunedin and the cup will be presented to the club @ 5.30 from a representative from Speights and Otago Rugby Union. This cup was the result of winning […]
Double Silverware for Harbour Hawks
Harbour wrested the Challenge Shield off Taieri with a 36-22 win. The Hawks also collect the Speight’s Jug for winning the first round. University pumped Kaikorai 62-17 and is in a rich vein of form. Southern climbed one spot on the ladder with a 28-3 win against Green Island but still cannot catch the ball. […]
Harbour Hawks – Kick for Touch
Harbour proved too strong for Southern down at the container terminal to remain two points in front of Varsity at the top of the table. One of the anomalies of the draw is that these table-toppers don’t play each other in the first round – bizarre! Southern continues to cascade down the table and now […]
Harbour Hawks – 3 trophies up for grabs this weekend
Rugby: Miller Park men source of inspiration The first round is almost done and what have we learned so far? Perhaps it is that Dunedin cannot seem to win a game without Gareth Evans, or that Southern will continue to lose the big games until its players remember how to catch the ball. Kaikorai can […]