4 Aug 2012
The senior Country representative side has begun its preparation for one of the most challenging representative seasons in its proud history new coach Steve Clark says.
While the focus of Ellesmere and North Canterbury players is currently on read more...
16 Jun 2012
Southbridge (here pictured) attempt to claim their first combined country competition title this weekend when they taken on Lincoln at Lincoln on Saturday.
Southbridge was one of the most successful clubs in Ellesmere in the 1960s and 1970s and while read more...
1 Jun 2012
West Melton has had one of its best seasons in recent years, although went down to Celtic away from home last weekend. They have a tough quarter-final this weekend when they meet Lincoln at Lincoln Domain read more...
17 May 2012
Likely playoff contenders are starting to emerge after seven rounds of the Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Cup.
Defending champions Lincoln, who scraped into the finals last year, are almost assured of top spot in section two read more...
4 May 2012
It was business as usual in the Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Cup last weekend with Lincoln and Methven winning although the coaches of both unbeaten teams are playing down their commanding early season form. read more...
29 Jul 2011
Darfield will be aiming to make amends in their Ellesmere Division One Championship semi final against Burnham, after losing to the soldiers in last season’s playoffs read more...
16 Jul 2011
Lincoln’s Jason Pietzner helped orchestrate a sixth consecutive Southbridge Shield win against North Canterbury on his home ground on Saturday read more...
28 Jun 2011
Darfield flanker Blair McIlroy is one of a number of experienced players named in both the Ellesmere and North Canterbury squads for their three-match representative programmes read more...
28 Jun 2011
A potentially career-ending injury to captain Mike Bendall inspired Lincoln to a 41-8 WIn in the Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Cup Final against Methven. Lincoln overpowered the previously read more...
17 Jun 2011
The form of Lincoln’s senior players, such as Jason Pietzner (pictured), has helped the Ellesmere side turn a mixed season into one where they again find themselves in the Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Final read more...
10 Jun 2011
Ashley’s improved form saw them make the combined cup playoffs for only the second time, despite losing a close match to unbeaten Oxford on Saturday read more...
3 Jun 2011
Lincoln veteran Matt Lowe had more to smile about than just a hat-trick of tries against Prebbleton on Saturday.
The No.8 played his 200th senior game for the club read more...
3 Jun 2011
Kaiapoi have secured a home quarter final in the combined cup playoffs despite suffering back-to back losses, qualifing second in Section 2 behind Methven read more...
27 May 2011
Oxford have maintained their unbeaten run in the Luisetti Seeds Combined Country competition, while fellow table-toppers Kaiapoi slipped up at home against Darfield read more...
5 Nov 2010
The Canterbury Rugby Sub Unions Board held their annual awards evening at the Kaiapoi Golf Club last month. The evening was a chance to celebrate their successes of the 2010 season read more...
29 Jul 2009
Dan Carter was of course the star attraction as Southbridge travelled to Hornby last weekend for their Coleman Shield clash in Ellesmere read more...
23 Jul 2009
Waihora and Springston will meet this weekend at Tai Tapu in the Combined Country Colts final.
This competition has been this season one of the best read more...
25 Aug 2010
Lincoln is the Ellesmere champion for 2010 with a hard-fought 14-9 win against Burnham in the Coleman Shield final recently. The red and blacks read more...
23 Jul 2009
While the North Canterbury competition is looking somewhat one-sided this season, the race for the Coleman Shield in Ellesmere is certainly heating up read more...
16 Jul 2009
It was business as usual for Lincoln on the field last weekend although Darfield showed its Ellesmere credentials with a 29-14 win against Southbridge read more...
10 Jul 2009
Glenmark showed that it means business in the North Canterbury competition with a resounding 66-0 win against Saracens last weekend to retain the Deans Shield read more...
26 Jun 2009
Lincoln has the opportunity to expel the ghosts of 2008 with another finals match against Glenmark this Saturday. This season they play the North Canterbury club in the final of the PGG Wrightson Country Cup at Lincoln read more...
17 Jun 2010
Kaiapoi is a surprise PGG Wrightson Combined Country competition semi-finalist after beating Darfield 25-15 away from home last weekend in one quarter-final read more...
16 Jun 2010
Ellesmere's win against North Canterbury in the Southbridge Shield match was helped by the presence of two sets of brothers, the McIlroys and the Pietzners. Here pictured Gareth Pietzner (centre) and Scott McIlroy (right) at scrum time read more...
21 Apr 2010
Lincoln proved too strong for Waihora last weekend in one of the local derbies of the Country season. The Red ad Blacks have now beaten near neighbours Prebbleton and Waihora in their first two matches read more...
23 Aug 2009
The Canterbury Country representative programme started with its senior side beating Mid Canterbury 37-17 at Dunsandel last Saturday read more...
17 Jun 2009
You might have learnt that Southbridge was in the semi-finals of the PGG Wrightson Combined competition in the build-up to the All Blacks vs. France Test on Saturday read more...
11 Jun 2009
Lincoln showed that they are the team to beat in the PGG Wrightson Combined competition this season with a good victory against Southern away from home last weekend. Half-back Jason Pietzner (here pictured playing for Ellesmere) has been in fine form read more...
28 May 2009
The Southbridge Shield is the closest thing that Canterbury rugby has to State of Origin football. With Canterbury Country places at stake, it normally sees good friends take on each other... read more...
21 May 2009
In what was unarguably the match of the PGG Wrightson Combined competition so far this season, Waihora beat Lincoln 27-25 at Tai Tapu Domain last weekend... read more...
14 May 2009
Darfield is one of the better represented clubs in both the Ellesmere senior and colts sides named this week... read more...
30 Apr 2009
Waihora is one of the teams to watch in the PGG Wrightson Combined competition this season. Not only are they unbeaten, but they are playing an attractive brand of rugby and are showing the character associated with teams on the rise... read more...
24 Apr 2009
Scott Higginson has moved on from being known as the son of former All Black (Graeme). He is in his own right becoming an outstanding talent... read more...
15 Apr 2009
Although the Southbridge club is these days perhaps best known for being the home club of one of the world’s best players, it is in its own right a prosperous entity. Its senior side has won its first two games... read more...
