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nd removing excessive detail that goes against wikipedia s inclusion policy october 2013 learn how and when to remove this message this article relies excessively on references to primary sources please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources find sources manawatu rugby union news newspapers books scholar jstor october 2013 learn how and when to remove this message learn how and when to remove this message manawatu rugby union sport rugby union jurisdiction manawatū whanganui abbreviation mru founded 1886 140 years ago 1886 affiliation new zealand rugby headquarters palmerston north president bruce hemara chairman tyn myers director barry roche official website www manawaturugby co nz the manawatu rugby football union mru serves as the governing body of the sport of rugby union in the manawatū whanganui region of new zealand founded in 1886 manawatu is one of new zealand s oldest rugby unions in 1892 the mru amongst other unions played a pivotal role in establishing the new zealand rugby union nzru during 1997 1998 manawatu entered into an amalgamation with hawke s bay as the central vikings wearing orange and blue attire the union is based in the city of palmerston north though its catchment area includes players and clubs from nearby towns in the province including ashhurst feilding rongotea linton bulls pahiatua woodville and dannevirke it has over 5 000 players making it the tenth largest union in new zealand in terms of player numbers 1 in 2011 the union celebrated its 125th jubilee manawatu have traditionally played in a distinctive green and white tramline jersey which is thought to have been established in 1909 2 in 1996 a jersey including red was worn and colours worn have varied since the union was formed the union s home ground is central energy trust arena history edit the manawatu rugby union was formed on 17 april 1886 at palmerston north with the founding clubs being palmerston feilding and foxton it was initially named the manawatu county union but was renamed in 1888 the sport had been introduced to the area by a few players from wanganui who had moved into the region following the unions establishment many other clubs were formed as the sport became more popular 3 early years the first recorded match in the manawatu took place on 13 july 1878 a feilding side faced a rangitikei combined clubs xv which was played at feilding 4 the first ranfurly shield game manawatu appeared in was in 1914 this was played against taranaki at pukekura park the match was lost 11 3 with william carroll scoring a sole try their next challenge came ten years later in 1924 where they would lose 31 5 to hawke s bay manawatu also provided j f manning to referee a match in 1905 between auckland and wellington 5 1970s and early 1980s first division era and ranfurly shield reign the period from 1976 to 1983 saw manawatu as one of the leading new zealand rugby provinces in this period manawatu consistently beat teams such as otago auckland wellington and canterbury manawatu held the ranfurly shield from 1976 to 1978 and this was followed by victory in the 1980 first division championship manawatu were also runner up in 1976 and 1981 a large sign reading go go manawatu was lifted above palmerston north showgrounds oval by crane citation needed manawatu beat auckland 12 10 at eden park in 1976 to win the log o wood as the ranfurly shield is sometimes referred to for the first time doug rollerson s dropped goal secured the famous victory for manawatu this led to a homecoming parade through the city streets with prop kent lambert sent off manawatu were reduced to 14 men in their defence of the ranfurly shield against the counties side in 1977 however manawatu rallied to record a victory 15 10 a last minute try prevented the counties side from taking the shield back to pukekohe for the first time there was some controversy in 1977 when the auckland rugby union had a request for a shield challenge that season denied by manawatu who argued that auckland had had too much influence in shield rugby for too long in the final ranfurly shield challenge of the 1978 season manawatu were leading north auckland now named northland 10 9 with time up on the clock however the referee bill adlam from wanganui played 5 6 minutes of injury time before awarding the visitors a penalty due to an offside close to the posts a penalty kick was successful and the shield was won by north auckland the referee then required a police escort off showgrounds oval as it was known while manawatu fans showed their disgust and disappointment adlam claimed after the match that the game clock at the venue had not allocated for a couple of lengthy injury breaks and so he rightly let the game go on this was also backed up by a photographer who accurately timed the game 5 manawatu scored a 20 10 win over australia in 1978 in 1979 auckland had won back the ranfurly shield and denied manawatu a challenge in 1980 in 1980 during its championship winning season manawatu had eight all blacks within the team mark donaldson mark shaw geoff old frank oliver gary knight doug rollerson lachie cameron and craig wickes one of manawatu s most memorable matches was the 1981 encounter against south africa manawatu led 9 4 at halftime and with minutes to go the score was 19 19 the clash between the national champions and the test strength springboks was headed for a climax worthy of such an event in the final analysis naas botha was the difference between the two sides in the final minutes he scored a long range penalty a dropped goal and a sideline conversion to lead the boks home to a flattering 31 19 victory the manawatu verses springbok game was the first to witness the police riot squads patrolling the streets as a pre emptive measure as opposed to them just turning up once trouble started the day was generally incident free in 1983 the canterbury ranfurly shield team put manawatu last on their list of challengers for that season in 1985 manawatu celebrated a centenary for its club competition and in 1986 the union s centenary late 1980s to mid 2000s second division in 1988 the union was relegated to the second division for the first time manawatu based in the second division was reduced to a feeder role losing players to other unions 6 lee stensness starred in a 58 24 win over ireland in 1992 in 1996 manawatu and hawke s bay merged their teams to form the central vikings rugby union it was an attempt to elevate both unions back to the first division players such as mark allen christian cullen mark ranby stephen bachop and roger randle featured in the team the 1997 season saw them finish second overall with 6 wins and 2 losses this saw the team into the semi finals in the semi final the vikings would go on to beat bay of plenty and came up against northland in the final northland won the final 63 10 northland were thus promoted to the first division however had the vikings won they would not have been eligible to be promoted 1998 saw a repeat of form for the vikings who went unbeaten in the season they subsequently won the final against bay of plenty and were promoted to first division however due to financial issues the merger split back to manawatu and hawke s bay as separate unions manawatu returned in 1999 to the second division manawatu began the new millennium firmly fixed in the second tier competition in 2005 manawatu were heavily defeated 6 109 by the touring british and irish lions at palmerston north 2006 onwards return to the first division in 2005 manawatu were invited along with four other unions reduced to three after an amalgamation of nelson bays and marlborough into tasman to play in the first division of a restructured national provincial championship initially called for sponsorship purposes the air new zealand cup it was the first time since 1988 manawatu had fielded a team in the top grade and unlike the 1980s it was now a professional rugby competition in 2009 central energy trust arena was the venue for a highlanders home game against the bulls from south africa fly half aaron cruden was selected for the all blacks in 2010 he was the first all black chosen whilst playing for the union since christian cullen in 1996 7 manawatu hosted two matches during the 2011 rugby world cup in 2011 a resurgent manawatu turbos side defeated the wellington lions 31 25 in wellington it was manawatu s first competition win over wellington in the capital after 124 years of trying also in 2011 manawatu scored 54 points against waikato team at arena manawatu the turbos led 35 17 at halftime eventually winning 54 20 this kept the turbos unbeaten at home for the season in 2012 manawatu scored its first victory away to north harbor the win at home against hawke s bay made manawatu one of the few championship teams to beat a premiership team in 2012 aaron smith was selected in the all blacks after fine performances with manawatu and the highlanders smith joining aaron cruden meant for the first time since 1986 two all blacks came from manawatu in 2021 manawatu appointed andrea jackson as chief executive officer manawatu were the first top flight union to appoint a woman in that role 8 9 club rugby edit the manawatu rugby union includes the following clubs club name team colours home base notes ashhurst pohangina green and gold ashhurst bulls black bulls bunnythorpe maroon gold and black bunnythorpe bush sports red and blue pahiatua junior level rugby only is played in manawatu senior level has returned to wairarapa bush rugby union 10 college old boys cob white maroon gold black palmerston north dannevirke black and gold dannevirke dannevirke sports club was formerly affiliated with hawke s bay however in 2007 it switched its affiliation to manawatu 11 feilding feilding yellows yellow black feilding feilding old boys oroua rfc fob o black white red blue feilding and kimbolton feilding old boys oroua is an amalgamation of the feilding old boys and oroua rugby clubs freyberg freys royal blue gold milson palmerston north halcombe black and red halcombe high school old boys marist obm black white green hoops palmerston north high school old boys marist was an amalgamation of the high school old boys hsob and marist rugby clubs kia toa light blue dark blue awapuni highbury palmerston north linton army red black linton military camp varsity sky blue massey university palmerston north te kawau emerald green black rongotea hankins shield senior a club competition winners edit 1987 varsity coached by murray kendrick 1988 varsity murray kendrick 1989 hsob ian colquhoun 1990 college ob bill clarke 1991 college ob bill clarke 1992 marist frank oliver 1993 kia toa warren hayne 1994 feilding ob roger walker 1995 marist john fisher 1996 oroua wayne harding 1997 te kawau geoff webb 1998 marist mark gleeson 1999 te kawau geoff webb 2000 te kawau peter kemp 20 17 marist 2001 hsob lewis williams 21 19 cob 2002 te kawau stu trembath 16 11 marist 2003 te kawau stu trembath 23 16 marist 2004 varsity steve morris 26 8 hsob 2005 college ob graeme tanner 27 16 feilding old boys 2006 college ob dean andrew 13 0 varsity 2007 college ob john cruden 33 18 feilding 2008 kia toa tasi tahuna 11 6 te kawa 2009 kia toa anthony rehutai 29 23 varsity 2010 varsity geoff thompson 11 10 feilding old boys oroua 2011 varsity geoff thompson 29 27 te kawa 2012 college ob aaron good 34 20 varsity 12 2013 kia toa 37 15 varsity 2014 college old boys 21 10 kia toa 2015 college old boys 32 21 kia toa 2016 varsity 18 17 kia toa 13 2017 old boys marist 28 27 kia toa 2018 feilding old boys oroua glen gregory 24 22 feilding 14 2019 feilding kelvin tantrum nathan williams 16 14 varsity 2020 feilding nathan williams 27 24 varsity 15 2021 feilding 22 18 varsity 2022 college old boys kingi matenga 24 5 old boys marist 2023 varsity scott lewis blair van stipriaan 34 33 college old boys 16 2024 kia toa michael tagicakibau 40 30 college old boys 17 18 2025 varsity scott lewis 29 27 kia toa 19 2026 kia toa bethel fau olo 59 27 massey university 20 manawatu representative players edit 21 22 23 for the side that represents manawatu rugby union in the bunnings npc see manawatu national provincial championship centurions 100 matches for manawatu edit name years games gary knight 1975 1986 145 ken granger 1971 1984 128 geoff old 1975 1985 117 murray rosenbrook 1979 1986 111 mark donaldson 1974 1985 110 rob foreman 2006 2015 110 bruce hemara 1978 1990 108 kevin eveleigh 1969 1978 107 perry harris 1970 1979 106 nick crosswell 2006 2019 104 don mccaskie 1956 1967 101 manawatu all blacks edit in new zealand to be selected to the all blacks is the pinnacle of rugby achievement in its history manawatu have produced many players who have been selected for the national team name all black number years total matches tests club nickname about bull allen 933 1993 97 27 8 massey university bull a cult hero and loosehead prop he is more associated with his home province of taranaki from where he made his all black debut however in 1997 he moved to manawatu where he captained the manawatu hawkes bay central vikings it was from this position that he played his one and only test match as a starting player against england at twickenham his last test keith bagley 548 1953 54 20 0 kia toa retired at aged 23 to his family farm robert bob burgess 690 1971 73 30 7 massey university debuted for the all blacks against the 1971 lions he was a stand out player in this series before being injured in the 3rd test which ended his season toured britain in 1972 73 before retiring in 1973 an anti apartheid activist burgess declined consideration for the 1970 tour to south africa and campaigned against the 1981 tour by the springboks john callesen 727 1974 76 18 4 high school old boys second rower whose career was ended by back problems went back to the farm after excelling for both manawatu and the all blacks lachlan cameron 796 1979 81 17 5 massey university lachie an exciting midfielder from the varsity club in 1981 he played in the dramatic 3rd test versus the springboks at eden park alphonsus carroll 217 1920 8 0 jackeytown phonse a dairy farmer he played his first game of rugby at aged 22 in 1917 toured australia in 1920 politically left of centre he was a conscientious objector during world war one switched codes to rugby league in 1925 and represented the kiwis sam cockroft 21 1893 12 0 palmerston played only one season in manawatu 24 aaron cruden 1105 2010 17 50 50 college old boys first five eighth made his all black debut on 10 june 2010 against ireland in new plymouth cancer survivor and son of former manawatu forward stu cruden 7 christian cullen 952 1996 2002 60 58 kia toa paekakariki express one of world rugby s most talented and entertaining fullbacks of any era was a wellingtonian for most of his all black career shot to stardom at the 1996 hong kong sevens chresten davis 958 1996 2 0 massey university chester mark donaldson 781 1977 81 35 ...