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Rugby team Hawke's Bay Official Hawke's Bay Magpies emblem Union Hawke's Bay Rugby Union Nickname(s) Magpies Founded 1884 ; 141 years ago (1884) Location Poraiti, Napier, New Zealand Ground(s) McLean Park Coach(es) Brock James Captain(s) Tom Parsons Most appearances Orcades Crawford and Michael Johnson (137) Top scorer Jarrod Cunningham (1,380) Most tries Robbie Hunter (69) League(s) Bunnings ...
The Hawke's Bay team of 1889. The Hawke's Bay Rugby Union was founded in 1884. This makes it the oldest Provincial Rugby Union outside the four main centres. Hawke's Bay has a very good Ranfurly Shield record with 24 defences from 1922 to 1927, 21 successful defences between 1966 and 1969 as well as 2 defences in 1934. [1]
Hawke's Bay occupying the Ranfurly Shield in 1923.. The first form of competition came in 1904 with the introduction of the Ranfurly Shield as a challenge trophy. Each year, fixtures were arranged in Wellington during the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, where an elected representative from each provincial union would propose dates and opponents that ideally avoided ...
The Hawke's Bay rugby league team are a New Zealand rugby league team that represents the Hawke's Bay Rugby League in New Zealand Rugby League competitions. They are nicknamed the Unicorns. They competed in the Lion Red Cup between 1994 and 1996.
Score Runner-up Semi-finalist 1 Semi-finalist 2 League Leader 2017 Bay of Plenty 7–5 Otago North Harbour N/A Bay of Plenty 2018 Wellington 57–5 Otago Hawke's Bay North Harbour Wellington 2019 Otago 24–20 Hawke's Bay Tasman Northland Otago 2020 – 2021 Manawatū 55–12 Hawke's Bay Northland Manawatū 2022 Hawke's Bay 24–20 Otago Northland
Rugby league was first established in the region in 1911 thanks to two former All Golds Jim Gleeson and Edward Tyne. [1] Former All Black David Evans helped persuade three Hawke's Bay clubs; Clive, Ahuriri and Kia Toa, to switch en masse to rugby league and form the basis of the first club competition.
After graduating high school, Godfrey headed to Hawke's Bay where he plays for the Central Hawke's Bay Rugby & Sports Club in the province's club rugby competition. [3] After good performances for the Hawke's Bay Academy team in 2021, [9] [10] Godfrey was named in the Hurricanes U20 squad for that year's Super Rugby Aotearoa Under-20 tournament ...
The Hawke's Bay Rugby Union's representative team, the Magpies, plays in New Zealand's annual professional domestic rugby union competition, the Mitre 10 Cup. The team represents the Hawke's Bay Region in provincial representative rugby, and draws its players from the constituent clubs who are affiliated to the provincial union.