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Chris Tuatara-Morrison
Chris Tuatara-Morrison (born Chris Tuatara, 11 September 1986) is an Australian rugby union footballer. His regular playing position is Rugby union positions#12. centre, inside-centre. He previously played for the Western Force in Super Rugby, and currently plays in the French Top 14 league for CA Brive, Brive. Early life Chris Tuatara was born in Hastings, New Zealand, Hastings, New Zealand. He was raised by his mother Moana Tuatara and moved with her to Sydney, Australia, when he was a young boy. He did not know the identity of his father, Howard Morrison Jnr (son of the entertainer Sir Howard Morrison), until he was 13 years old. Later as an adult, Chris Tuatara changed his name to Chris Tuatara-Morrison. In Sydney, young Chris Tuatara played junior rugby league for the Asquith Magpies club. He played rugby union for Turramurra High School. During his final year at Turramurra in 2004, he was selected to represent New South Wales II at the Australian Schoolboys national rugby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hastings, New Zealand
Hastings (; mi, Heretaunga) is an inland city of New Zealand and is one of the two major urban areas in Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of the North Island. The population of Hastings (including Flaxmere) is (as of with a further people in Havelock North and in Clive. Hastings is about 18 kilometres inland of the coastal city of Napier. These two neighbouring cities are often called "The Bay Cities" or "The Twin Cities". The city is the administrative centre of the Hastings District. Since the merger of the surrounding and satellite settlements, Hastings has grown to become one of the largest urban areas in Hawke's Bay. Hastings District is a food production region. The fertile Heretaunga Plains surrounding the city produce stone fruits, pome fruit, kiwifruit and vegetables, and the area is one of New Zealand's major red wine producers. Associated business include food processing, agricultural services, rural finance and freight. Hastings is the major service centre f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby league competition. The Sharks, as they are commonly known, were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, predecessor of the Australian Rugby League and the current National Rugby League competition, in January 1967. The club competed in every premiership season since then and, during the Super League war, joined the rebel competition before continuing on in the re-united NRL Premiership. The Sharks have been in competition for 56 years, appearing in four grand finals, winning their first premiership in 2016 after defeating the Melbourne Storm at Stadium Australia. History In 1967 the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) added two new clubs to the competition, Cronulla-Sutherland and Penrith, the first to join the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalans Dragons
The Catalans Dragons ( French: ''Dragons Catalans'', Catalan: ''Dracs Catalans'') are a professional rugby league club from Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, France. The team competes in the Super League and are the only team from outside England. The Dragons play regular home games at Stade Gilbert Brutus in the centre of the city. Catalans Dragons are the first non-British team to win the Challenge Cup since the competition started in 1896, after beating Warrington Wolves 20–14 at Wembley Stadium on 25 August 2018. The club was formed in 2000 by a merger of XIII Catalan and AS Saint-Estève into Union Treiziste Catalane (UTC). They won the 2005 French Championship and the Lord Derby Cup in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, they were granted a Super League licence, taking the name Catalans Dragons. UTC continues to compete in the French Championship's Elite One Championship as a feeder club for the Dragons, now under the name Saint-Estève XIII Catalan. History 2000â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Suburbs Rugby Club
Northern Suburbs Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club in Sydney, Australia, that was formed in 1900 from the merger of the Pirates and Wallaroos clubs. The club competes in the Shute Shield competition run by the New South Wales Rugby Union. The club has produced 42 Australia national rugby union team, Wallaby representatives. The club's home ground is the historic North Sydney Oval on the North Shore of Sydney. The ground has been a venue for both codes of rugby and for cricket over more than a century. Club information :Club Name: Northern Suburbs Rugby Football Club :Nickname: The Shoremen, Norths, The Red and Blacks :Founded: 1900 :Home stadium: North Sydney Oval :Head coach: Zak Beer :Captain: Harry Burey :Vice Captain: Angus Sinclair :Uniform colors: Red & Black :Premiership Titles: 7 (1933, 1935, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1975, 2016) Club history Pre World War One Rugby on the lower North Shore is over 130 years old. Council minutes reveal that the North Shore Football C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Fava
Scott Fava (born 19 January 1976 in Kiama, Australia) is an Australian retired rugby union footballer. Super 14 Scott Fava began his Super Rugby career with the Queensland Reds in 1999, playing for three seasons before moving on to the ACT Brumbies. At the Brumbies, Fava was named Best Forward in 2004. For the 2006 season, Fava joined the new Western Force side which were part of the expansion of the Super 12 to become the Super 14. During the season, Fava was relegated to the bench after failing a club alcohol breath test. Fava made 87 appearances in Super Rugby. He later became the first person to play for all Australian Super 14 sides when he joined the Waratahs. He later retired due to injury after the 2009 season. Fava played for Eastwood and became the first person to win the Ken Catchpole Medal three times, voted as the most outstanding player in the Sydney club competition in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Tests Fava made his test debut for the Wallabies against England i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford Harlequins Rugby Football Club
Oxford Harlequins (Oxford Quins) Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Oxford, England. In the 2021-22 season the men's 1st XV gained promotion to a new league in the England Rugby Club Championship, Regional 1 South Central, a new nomenclature for National 3 / level five of the English rugby union system. As of Sept 2022, the women's 1st XV compete in National Challenge 1 South East, level 4 of the England Rugby Women's Club Championship. The men's 2nd XV compete in Counties 2 Tribute Berks/Bucks & Oxon North, level 8 of the RFU rugby pyramid. The men's 3rd XV compete in Counties 3 Tribute Berks Bucks & Oxon North, level 9 of the RFU Rugby pyramid. The women's 2nd XV compete in National Challenge 2, level 5 of the England Rugby women's club championship. Stu Wells was appointed Director of Rugby in July 2019. Pete Davies was appointed as Men's Head Coach in August 2019. Davies began his career at Henley Hawks RFC fresh out of university after moving to England fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National League 3 South West
Regional 1 South West (formerly South West Premier and National League 3 South West) is a level five league in the English rugby union system. It is one of six leagues at this level. When this division began in 1987 it was known as South West Division 1. The format of the league was changed at the beginning of the 2009–10 season following reorganisation by the Rugby Football Union, and the name change from National League 3 to South West Premier was introduced for the 2017–18 season by the RFU in order to lessen confusion for what is a series of regional leagues. Regional 1 South West, is the highest regional rugby union league covering South West England. The club finishing in first place is automatically promoted to National League 2 West. Relegated teams drop down to either Regional 2 South West or Regional 2 Severn depending on location. Exeter University are the current champions. Format The season runs from September to May and comprises twenty-two rounds of matche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon RFC
Gordon Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based on the North Shore of Sydney. The club, known as the Gordon Highlanders, plays out of Chatswood Oval and competes in the New South Wales Rugby Union grade competition. Club information * Premiership Titles – Shute Shield: 9 (1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1976, 1993, 1995, 1998 & 2020) * Club Championships: 13 * President: Matthew Glascott * 1st Grade Head Coach: Brian Melrose * 1st Colts Head Coach: Andy Connors * General Manager Grant Pisani The original Gordon Rugby Football Club was founded in 1927 on Sydney's North Shore, playing in the Metropolitan Junior Competitions and its home games on Roseville Chase Oval. The club was disbanded in 1930 and the following year, many of its players transferred to the newly formed Roseville Junior Rugby Union Football Club, whose home ground was Chatswood Oval. In the 1935 season, the club won the Metropolitan Junior Club Championship, the Kentwell Cup and its second grade, the Bourk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shute Shield
The Shute Shield is a semi-professional rugby union competition in Sydney, Australia. It is the premier club competition in New South Wales. The Shute Shield is awarded to the winning team from the Sydney premiership grand final held at the end of the club rugby season. History Club-based rugby football began some time before 1865. The Sydney University Football Club began in 1863 (although this date is questioned by some historians) and is the oldest existing football club outside the British Isles. The first recorded rugby season in Australia was in 1865 with Sydney University, Sydney Football Club and the Australian Club reported as playing games. On 24 June 1874, a meeting was held between ten prominent football clubs to create a governing body to administer the game within New South Wales. The Southern Rugby Football Union was formed. The first task of the Union was to decide on a set of rules for all clubs to adhere to. Clubs were given "senior" or "junior" status which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Suburbs Magpies
The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly referred to, were one of the nine foundation clubs of the first New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. The club, as a sole entity, departed the top-flight competition in 1999 after forming a 50–50 joint venture with Balmain Tigers to form the Wests Tigers. The club currently fields sides in the NSW State Cup (Canterbury Cup), Ron Massey Cup (Opens), S.G. Ball Cup (Under 18's) and Harold Matthews Cup (Under 16's) competitions. Campbelltown Stadium, which has a capacity of 18,000, is their home stadium. History The club was one of the foundation members of the Sydney rugby football league competition in 1908. Founded at a meeting on 4 February 1908 at Ashfield Town Hall, they won only one match the following season so were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Roosters
The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional Rugby league, Rugby League Football Club based in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) and parts of inner Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. The Roosters have won fifteen New South Wales Rugby League premiership, New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and National Rugby League titles, and several other competitions. First founded as the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club (ESDRLFC), it is the only club to have played in each and every season at the elite level, and since the 1970s has often been dubbed the glamour club of the league. The Sydney Roosters have won 15 premierships, equal to the record of the St George Dragons. Only the South Sydney Rabbitohs have won more premierships. The club holds the record for having won more matches than any other in the league, the most Minor premiership, Minor Premierships and the most World Club Challenge trophies. The Sydney Roosters are one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newtown Jets
The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west. They currently compete in the NSW Cup competition, having left the top grade after the 1983 NSWRFL season. The Jets' home ground is Henson Park, and their team colours are blue (traditionally royal blue) and white. Established in 1908, Newtown were one of the founding members of the New South Wales Rugby Football League. They competed continuously in the NSWRFL premiership until their departure in 1983, the first reduction in the League since 1937. Over this period they won the competition three times. History NSWRFL Premiership The club was founded on 14 January 1908 at a public meeting held at Newtown Town Hall that had been convened by the prominent Sydney sportsman James J. Giltinan (after whom the NSW Rugby League Premiership shield is named), local MP Henry Hoyle, and Harry Hamill (1879-1947), who was to be the fledgling club's first captain. Newtown was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
