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Morrinsville Rugby and Sports Club was formed in 1996, with the combination of two rival clubs Morrinsville United Old Boys and Morrinsville Marist. Sports have fielded teams in most grades, A's, B's, U21's, U19's since starting. It is by far the strongest club in Morrinsville and one of the strongest country clubs in the Waikato. The A team have made it through to the major semi finals Twice in 1998 and 2007, the U21's were beaten finalists in 2005, and there has been numerous Lion Cup (pro/rele)victories included. Rep players through the club include Rhys Ellison, Duane Monkley, Tony Hart, Tony Philp, Luke Ottley, Dillon Clarke, Derek Maisey, Loki Crichton, Chresten Davis, Waisake Masirewa (Ski), Keith Robinson, Sione Lauaki, and Sitiveni Sivivatu. 2007 has been the biggest year thus far for the club, with the naming of Vesi Rauluni (Fiji)Dwayne Sweeney (NZ Maori) and Brendon Leonard (All Blacks) all in one week.

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  • Pre Season Trainings

    13th Jan
    20th Jan
    27th Jan
    Then Every Tuesday/Thursday from February (6:30)

    Feb 27 Pre Season v Matamata
    Mar 6 Kereone 15s
    Mar 13 Pre Season v The Mount
    Mar 20 Comp v Fraser Tech

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  • TOUCH DRAW: 29th October

    WAYNE ROBB APPLIANCE SPOT TOUCH MODULE 2009

    DRAW: 29th October

    TIME/FIELD REFEREE

    6pm

    1 Agents v Natives Untouchables

    2 Slingshots v Motown Dodgers The Stains

    3 Dixie Normous v 24/7 Woodycrackers

    4 Young Farmers v Bros n Hoes Havoc

    5 Red Devils v Bowers Blockheads Five Star

    6 RubyRandyRabbits v Squashed Recessed

    7 Unidentified v Nott T Touch Team Hazard

    8 Weezheads v Lite 2 Touch Ko Paki Moi

    6:25pm

    1 Untouchables v Spot Me Agents

    2 The Stains v Legionnaires Motown Dodgers

    3 Woodycrackers v Short Cutz Dixie Normous

    4 Havoc v Fitness Centre Bros n Hoes

    5 Five Star v Tommos Team Red Devils

    6 Recessed v College Squashed

    7 Team Hazard v PurpleMonkeyDishwashers Nott T Touch

    8 Ko Paki Moi v A Class Lite 2 Touch

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    7pm

    1 Forking Prawns v Rolling Subs Spot Me

    2 Storm Troopers v Best Beats Legionnaires

    3 Unfit v Sub Zero Short Cutz

    4 NNN v Top Gear Cortex Fitness Centre

    5 Natives v Slingshots Tommos Team

    6 Young Farmers v Motown Dodgers Rachael

    7 24/7 v Agents PurpleMonkeyDishwashers

    8 Dixie Normous v Bros n Hoes A Class

    7:25pm

    1 Red Devils v Weezheads Rolling Subs

    2 RubysRandyRabbits v The Stains Best Beats

    3 Nott T Touch v Legionnaires Sub Zero

    4 Unidentified v Spot Me Top Gear Cortex

    5 Squashed v Untouchables Slingshots

    6 Bowers Blockheads v Lite 2 Touch Young Farmers

    7:50pm

    1 Woodycrackers v Recessed Weezheads

    2 Havoc v PurpleMOnkeyDishwashers Ruby Randy Rabbits

    3 Fitness Centre v Team Hazard NNN

    4 Five Star v Short Cutz Unidentified

    5 Tommos Team v College Darryl

    6 Ko Paki Moi v Unfit Bowers Blockheads

    8:15pm

    1 Forking Prawns v Top Gear Cortex Rachael

    2 Sub Zero v Best Beats College

    3 Rolling Subs v NNN Darryl

    4 Storm Troopers v A Class Unfit

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  • Morrinsville Sports 2006-2009 - Road to a Championship

    "Of all the sporting events I've been to, and I've been to a few.....this has got to be one of my greatest moments I feel, a bunch of ordinary guys came out and did a job that superstars could'nt do, and all credit to the big guy thats sitting up there now puffing on his cigar.....he believed in you right from the word go 4 years ago when he came here you know, he knew you could do it.....it just took us three years to get ya there. And this is great for Morrinsville people, this is great for a country club"

    Morrinsville Sports trainer Max Holmes describes his thoughts on the win straight after Morrinsville Sports won the Waikato Championship 25/07/2009.


    At the end of the 2005 season, Morrinsville Rugby and Sports Club were going through the process of appointing a new coach for the upcoming 2006 season, there had been a few applications forwarded to the club and the decision was about to be made, this was at the same time that the Morrinsville Sports sevens team was competing in the Waikato Club sevens competition at Te Awamutu. Morrinsville had played Fraser Tech in a round robin game, but both teams missed out on playing in the final, current Fraser Tech sevens coach and ex Morrinsville Sports senior player Dean Gage invited the Morrinsville boys to come and sit with his team and have a beer after the games had finished, after a few beers discussions came to who was doing what next year at each club, "who's coaching Sports next year?" Gage asked, "not sure yet, they make a desission next week about it" was the reply......."bro, I'll be keen" said Gage "give me Gooses number". And that was it, Morrinsville Sports had their coach for the following season. Dean Gage, an ex Morrinsville Sports player who was working at a meat works just out of town was appointed, Gage was known as a guy that loved winning but also loved partying after winning, he'd previously coached the Fraser Tech senior B team, a team that the A players when dropped didnt mind all that much as they had so much fun playing under Gage and his assistant Darrin Stevenson.
    The first thing Gage said when interviewed was, I want to bring Styvie over as my assistant-he'll be good for this club. I've also got a few Fraser Tech B players that want to come over, they could easily play A's over here. Only one followed him, halfback Andrew Greene, but Gage knew he was the right guy, "back when I played here, this club used to rock til all hours, I want to bring back those days" Gage said.
    It was'nt long til these guys made their mark on Morrinsville Sports rugby, pre-season training where everyone was welcome, "all ages, all grades, dosn't matter who you are-aslong as you're involved" Gage said, "lets get the A's and B's together, none of this them and us, if this is going to work we need to be as one". He changed the name of the B team to the Pressure Fifteen, there was no A team and no B team, there was a squad of guys that were picked to play the main game, and the rest were up their arse ready to take their place if they wer'nt up to it. Then after the game, they were as one again.

    This was the kick that Morrinsville Sports needed, the B team had been getting hammered week in week out, but the guys were still happy to play. Under the new regime, the Pressure Fifteen started winning games, and losing to teams by close margins that they'd previously lost to by 70-80 points, the A team started to take a few big scalps but didn't quite make it into the top 6 competition that was being played that year, instead both Morrinsville Sports teams contested the Promotion- Relegation final in both grades, this was not heard of for the Pressure fifteen, playing in a final....after the previous hidings they'd had, the players were starting to believe in themselves, and the partying got bigger and bigger, after the finals that day in Te Awamutu, the Te Awamutu players started joining in with the Morrinsville Sports players in celebrating....they could'nt figure out why

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  • Morrinsville Sports 26 v Fraser Tech 18 (Grand Final)

    Lucas McIver by Lucas McIver
    The fairytale finish to the Waikato club rugby season that Morrinsville Sports dared to wish for came true and exploded into emotional scenes at Waikato Stadium on Saturday night.

    Morrinsville created history by beating Fraser-Tech 26-18 to claim the Waikato Breweries Shield for the first time in the premier division grand final.

    It was a fitting spectacle, featuring six lead changes, two dropped goals and drama aplenty before the visitors hit the front for the final time with a converted try in the 56th minute and then Dwayne Sweeney sealed it with close-range penalty goal right on fulltime.

    The man who scored the winning try off the back of a 5m scrum, inspirational skipper and No8 Alex Bradley was swept up in the emotional scenes that followed, players swamped by hundreds of supporters who rushed on to the field and then the chant went up from the team as they had their photos taken with the Shield "Styvie, Styvie, Styvie" for their late coach Darrin Stevenson who had died suddenly just two weeks earlier.

    "It was just outstanding," said Bradley as he managed to tear himself away from the chaotic scenes briefly.

    "The boys have put it in right from the start. Before Christmas and just followed through with it.

    "We've learnt to gel together as a team and just play solid rugby through our hard play.

    "There's no superstars in our team and this was a deserved win by my boys.

    "They've played well."

    Bradley said it had been very difficult to keep the players' emotions under control in the two weeks since Stevenson had died but they had found the right balance.

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    A superior kicking game enabled Morrinsville to play the territory game they wanted and Fraser-Tech often got trapped into trying to play too much rugby in their own half.

    But with Morrinsville missing five penalty kicks at goal many of them difficult ones and the Tech defence scrambling well it took a herculean effort from the more experienced visiting pack, led by the likes of Bradley and Chresten Davis to get them home.

    Damon McKinnon, who scored the first try with a touch-and-go dive for the right corner, and Andrew Greene showed their control and experience behind the Morrinsville pack, Fijian flyers Vesi Rauluni and Ben Titoko, whose intercept try gave his team a 13-10 half-time lead, were instrumental in the backline.

    And the icing on top was delivered by Chiefs utility back Dwayne Sweeney who played most of the second half and added vital experience and the last eight points, including a second dropped goal, after Greene's one to open the scoring.

    Tries from impressive young backs Joe Perawiti and Glen Robertson and the boot of another young player in cool-headed first five Trent Nattrass kept Tech in the game, as did some equally good work by their pack with hooker Vern Kamo, lock Peniasi Iowane, young loosies Adrian Hall and Joe Scheres and outside backs Roimata Hansell-Pune and Tyron Child.

    They produced some, at times, spectacular break-out attacks.

    But in the end Morrinsville's greater maturity as a team and better tactical execution made the difference.

    "We sort of got sucked into playing how they wanted to play. We were very mindful of them playing a territorial game but we still got tricked into playing deep in our territory and got turned over at vital times," Tech coach Nick Holten said.
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    "It's not how we wanted to play and our kicking game was poor.

    "The quality of their ball was better than our ball and they just seemed a bit hungrier than we were," Holten said.
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  • Morrinsville Sports 19 Hamilton Old Boys 18

    Lucas McIver by Lucas McIver
    From The Waikato Times

    For the second week in succession Morrinsville Sports' fullback Brooke Tremayne kicked a vital penalty goal to give his side a narrow victory over one of the form teams in the competition, Chris Clarkin writes.

    Morrinsville Sport created history at Fred Jones Park by claiming their first trip to a Breweries Shield final at the end of an emotional seven days for the club.

    "We knew that coming to Hamilton was going to be a tough task for us against a good Old Boys side, and the guys needed to put in a strong 80-minute effort even though we needed to rally back on a couple of occasions," Morrinsville captain Alex Bradley said.

    Morrinsville, playing with a strong wind at their backs, needed less than a minute to get on the board through the first of Tremayne's four penalty goals.

    But for the next 28 minutes the visitors hardly touched the ball as Old Boys mounted a series of raids well into the opposition's territory. All too often promising moves went begging as Old Boys struggled to keep ball in hand or to penetrate a granite solid Morrinsville defence.

    Inside the last 10 minutes of the opening half Morrinsville were able to climb out of the defensive cellar with some well-placed tactical kicks from both Dwayne Sweeney and Andrew Greene.
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    The midfield combination of Vesi Rauluni and Sweeney then combined for Morrinsville's only try with Rauluni making a decisive break to put Sweeney over.

    Right on halftime Tremayne added his third penalty goal to make it a 16-0 halftime advantage.

    With the wind at their backs in the second half Old Boys wasted very little time in clawing back Morrinsville's lead with fullback Kane Adams gathering a kick and sending first five-eighths Tyler Leith in for the try.

    It wasn't until the 65th minute that Old Boys claimed the lead for the first time in the match when replacement Paul Gibson show some brilliant individual skills to go over for the try, and added another conversion to give the home side a two-point advantage.

    The last 15 minutes proved to be a titanic battle for both possession and territory with most of the game being played well inside Morrinsville's territory as once again the defensive shields went up.

    "I thought the guys came back strongly, we got what we wanted, we knew that emotion alone wasn't going to win us the match," Bradley said.

    Inside the last three minutes and having turned defence into attack Tremayne slotted the penalty that would take them to the final.
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  • Morrinsville Sports 11, Hamilton Marist 3

    Lucas McIver by Lucas McIver
    From The Waikato Times

    Inspired by a solid all-round performance from All Black Brendon Leonard at halfback, Morrinsville Sports were always in command against a lacklustre Hamilton Marist side at Marist Park, winning their match without too much trouble, John Holt writes.

    Leonard talked his team up all through the match, giving the side enough self-belief to gain their win.

    Morrinsville maintained a simple kick-and-chase strategy for most of the match, content to go forward into their opponents' territory with a barrage of high kicks that were difficult to field because of the strong wind blowing across the field. Inevitably, mistakes happened, enabling the winning side to convert their opponents' errors into points.

    The visiting side led 6-3 at halftime, after fullback Brook Tremayne had kicked his only two penalty goal attempts, while Marist first five Joe Reynolds had kicked a penalty goal for his side.

    Then, early in the second half, Morrinsville scored an excellent try to gain an eight-point lead they never surrendered. From inside his own half, Tremayne put up a high kick then raced through to catch the ball on the full, before offloading to his support players. Several of the team handled the ball before wing Seru Radidi dived over for the try.

    Morrinsville dominated territory and were gifted a lot of possession by the home side's handling errors, but also defended resolutely throughout the match against an opponent that had little to offer in the way of attacking ploys. Marist's Kevin O'Neill won a lot of quality ball for his side at the back of the lineout, but, on the day, few others in the team knew what to do with it.
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    Thanx so much boys 4 the win,you make everyone proud for the job well done.Remember that we can do all things thru CHRIST who give us strength.Awesome Morrinsville!!!!!!!!!...

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    What can I say... Massive!!!! Morrinsville for life

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    the man that was in the video with his leg that got hurt that looked really sore! i was in the backround by the canteen with my cousin that day and there was a fight on the field i think that day?

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    Working Bee at Clubrooms Sunday March 15th if you available and want to help improve our clubrooms! Thanks in advance!

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