New season about to start
The 2010 rugby season is about to start for the Midlands Rugby Club, with the first game to start on the 27th of March, where the Premiers play Blues. On Saturday they played Blues in a friendly with the win going to Blues by 30 points to 24.
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Tuesday 9 March 2010
"200th Club" part two
Ben McHugh, when you here this name mentioned, it will be allways heard around the rugby circles, and especially at the Midlands club. For Ben raked up his 200th game for Midlands this year. Ben has allways been a Midlands man, right from the first day that Midlands launched itself,
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Sunday 16 August 2009
The "200" Club
Blair Vinning Played his 200th game for Midlands in the Galbraith Shield Final this year. Although the result didn't go the way he had hoped, the biggest thrill he got, was when he lead his team out before the game.
Blair started playing rugby when he was only 7 years
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Sunday 16 August 2009
Didnt quite make it again
The Bottom Pub Midlands Div 2 team, went to Gore on Saturday, to try and make history for the club, by winning a final.But they couldn't make it happened, going down to Pioneer by 15 points to 9. Midlands played the most attacking game, but couldn't convert the posession
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Wednesday 12 August 2009
Another Win, Another Final.
The Bottom Pub Midlands Div 2 team had a hard fought win on Saturday over Waiau Star 6 nil,which put them in the final of the Plate competition on the 8th of Augest, against Pioneer. Its been a long road for this young team, but they have played well
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Tuesday 4 August 2009
Midlands Div 2 back on track
The Bottom Pub Midlands Div 2 team, got there game back on track for the final coming up, with a good win over Otautau by 27 to 0.Allthough it took them awhile to get going, they quickly got on top of Otautau and out classed them. The forwards outplayed
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Sunday 26 July 2009
Oh So Close
The Midlands Premiers did its community proud, after making the finals of Southland Rugby's Premier Division, to only go down 13 points to 10, against Star for the much coveted prize of the Galbraith Shield.
Its been a three year build up for the Winton based club, President Ross McKerchar
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Wednesday 22 July 2009
So Near yet so Far Away
The big day for the Middle Pub Midlands Premiers came on Saturday,when they went to Rugby Park in Invercargill, to play Star for the coveted Galbraith Shield. The weather wasnt to bad, and the support from the locals was huge, with five buses of supporters going to watch the
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Sunday 12 July 2009
Midlands Team One Win away from the Galbraith Shield
In the short time that the Middle Pub Midlands team have been playing in the Premier grade, they have created history on Saturday, by making the final of the Galbraith Shield.Its been close to one hundred years, since Winton last one the celebrated trophy of rugby supremacy in Southland.
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Sunday 5 July 2009
"Smashed em Bro"
If anybody had thought that the Middle Pub Midlands Premeirs werent ready for semi final rugby, they were wrong. They went down to the Les George Oval on Saturday, to play Marist in the first of the semi finals, to be played that day. And what a lesson in rugby
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Sunday 28 June 2009
Midlands Prems wallop Woodlands
The Middle Pub Midlands Premiers got there top four playoffs back on track, when they beat Woodlands 28-17 on Saturday. The team were fired up in the first twenty minutes, and put on 10 points in that first quarter. With Mark Wells and Matt Saunders back in the backline,
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Sunday 7 June 2009
