During January training is held at the Polo Gounds in Miramar on Monday & Wednesday evenings at 6pm.

These are general fitness & conditioning sessions, supervised by a qualified fitness instructor and are open to anyone.

Tueday & Thursday evenings is flag night at Miramar Central School (adjacent to the Polo Grounds) and is open once again to anyone and doubles as 7s training for the Ulalei and Marist 7s tournaments to be contested 28/29 January & 3/4 February

February will see the trainings move base to our community school Rongotai College in Kilbirnie. These will be on a Tuesday & Thursday evening on the main field, with the time to be confirmed.

So for all that are wishing to play Open, Age and Women's grade it would be great to see you.

The season starts on Easter Saturday, April 7, for Premier, Senior 1 and Senior 2. Preseason matches begin in March.

For more information contact CCO Mason Malagamaali'i 0212684952

Should have got him to put the route to Ories....

in a recent article in the Air New Zealand 'In Flight' magazine Kia Ora, Ma'a described his 'perfect' 24 hours to show a visitor around NZ, " start off in Raglan with a surf. There's a really good horse trekas well which would take up most of the morning. Then we'd fly to Wellington, have lunch at the Maranui Cafe in Lyall bay, catch a club rugby game at the Oriental Rongotai's home ground in Miramar and finish off with dinner at one of Wellington's finest restaurants.

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Julian Savea was on top of the rugby world in June 2010 when he won the 2010 IRB Junior Player of the Year. Savea was the star of the IRB World U20 tournament, scoring eight memorable tries in three games en route to the final and then helping New Zealand run through Australia 62-17. He marked his first-class debut in July 2010 with a length of the field runaway try that clinched an ITM Cup pre-season win for the Vodafone Wellington Lions over Canterbury. He started on the right wing in 12 of 14 ITM Cup games, scoring a further eight tries including a try on championship debut against Tasman and two more the following week against Otago.

Powerfully built and with speed to burn, the 103 kg, 1.92m Savea featured on the right wing for New Zealand in the 2010 World U20 tournament. He scored four tries in one match against Samoa and two each against Wales and South Africa, the latter as part of a 36-7 semi-final win.

Miramar born and bred, Savea was a star of the Rongotai first XV and first made the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ side as a year 12 student in 2007 and scored his first international try in the international against Australia in Sydney. This led to him being selected in the 2008 Hurricanes academy squad in 2008 while still at school.

As a Hurricanes academy member in 2008, he continued his terrific promise for the Hurricanes Schools side and again for the New Zealand Secondary Schools in internationals against Samoa and Australia, captaining this side.
He made his Wellington club rugby Premier debut for Ories in 2009 and immediately stamped his mark on the Swindale Shield when he crossed for five tries as a left winger in his second Premier start to help Ories to a 78-17 win over Old Boys-University.

Savea debuted for the New Zealand Sevens team at the 2009 Dubai Sevens and went on to play in the Sevens tournaments at Hong Kong, Adelaide, London and Scotland.

Savea’s younger brother Ardie captained the New Zealand Secondary Schools team in 2011.

Julian Savea Hurricanes Profile

Hardworking Wellington hooker Motu Matu’u earns his first call-up to Super Rugby duty in 2012.

Combining muscle and strong defence, Matu’u also rings a strong work ethic to the side.

Matu’u has previously earned 13 caps for Wellington over three seasons, making his provincial debut in a pre-season Ranfurly Shield defence against Wairarapa-Bush. His first ITM Cup came off the bench against Manawatu in 2010, while he made a further 10 appearances in 2011 and took the field in every ITM Cup match. His starting debut was against Northland.

Motu Matu'u Hurricanes Profile