As many are aware, each season the Cantabrian Rugby Football Club, with assistance from the Coach Development Staff of the CRFU and Club coaches, conduct coaching clinics for our young players. These clinics, which started back in the 1960’s, have proved read more...
The bad news is that a number of top senior referees have left Canterbury. The good news is that the doors are open for promising referees to quickly move up the grades.
Four referees on the senior panel have left the province for personal or ... read more...
Canterbury Rugby Development Officer Kim Browne says coaching is a selfless past-time that can bring with it some of the most amazing highs imaginable and which at the very least is incredibly rewarding at a personal level read more...
Rugby played a pivotal part in our community even before the Canterbury Rugby Football Union was formed by eight clubs and schools on 26 July 1879. Rugby has always managed to draw people from different backgrounds read more...
University and Sydenham will have new competition this season as it is likely that Christchurch, with three highly respected ex-Black Ferns in its ranks, will field a side. Noted national sportswoman Melissa Ruscoe has been read more...
Canterbury Women’s Rugby player and Black Fern Kendra Cocksedge, and Canterbury Rugby players Matt Todd, Sean Maitland and Colin Slade will personally congratulate some of Paparoa Street School’s victorious young rugby players at their school assembly read more...
Club rugby is heating up in the Country with both Ellesmere and North Canterbury competitions evenly poised with one round remaining.
In Ellesmere it may be a case of three of the four semi-finalists from the Luisetti Seeds combined country competition read more...
The Metro and Country under-21 squads square-off on Wednesday night (25th July) in Prebbleton for provincial bragging rights.
While tonight’s match is a battle for provincial supremacy, it is also an opportunity for players to put their name forward read more...
Parklands stalwart Andy MacDonald, the winner of New Zealand Rugby’s 2011 Steinlarger Volunteer of the Year, could be excused for slowing down this season.
Yet the self-confessed rugby nut admits that he is as busy as ever, coaching not only the read more...
The New Zealand Rugby Union is looking for athletic, highly motivated and resilient female athletes aged 16-24 to join our National Women's Sevens development programme. Previous rugby experience is not required! read more...
The Canterbury Rugby Earthquake Relief Charitable trust has received a generous donation of $76,105 from the Toshiba Corporation in Japan.
The donation comprised of funds from the Toshiba rugby team read more...
On Thursday 20 October, at Rugby Park, the visiting French Minister for Sports, Mr David Douillet officially presented a sculpture L’enjeu (“At Stake”) to the Canterbury Rugby Football Union read more...
The following 12 players have been named in the Canterbury Sevens Team to compete at the South Island National Qualifying tournament this Saturday read more...
Five players from the Canterbury Women’s NPC side have been named in the New Zealand Black Ferns Squad to play a three Test tour against RWC Runners-up England read more...
As a part of the NZRU Rugby World Cup legacy initiatives, rugby clubs around New Zealand were given the opportunity to register and be a part of the NZ Rugby Passport during the Rugby World Cup read more...
Country Coach Development Officer Lee Golding recently traveled to the Chatham Islands for his annual visit, taking the classes at Te One School for their skill development and Rippa Rugby read more...
Christ’s College must be wondering how to break the Press Cup curse hanging over their annual clash with Christchurch Boys’ High after an 11th straight loss.
Christchurch Boys’ 43-13 win at Rugby Park read more...
Christ’s College and St Bede’s have continued their winning ways in the revamped Press Cup.
This season’s competition has been split into two pools; northern and southern. The pools play a round robin read more...
