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Auckland kids get chance to rip up the field
Media release
27 September
2011
Auckland kids get chance to rip up the field
Four hundred Auckland schoolchildren will be playing for their own Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC 2011) glory early next month.
Auckland’s own Rippa Rugby tournament kicks off at Cox’s Bay Reserve on 4 and 5 October.
Forty primary and intermediate school-aged teams from Auckland, Counties Manukau and North Harbour provincial unions will take part in this local version of the national competition held in August.
Each team will be allocated a competing nation from RWC 2011 and play out the pool matches before competing in the knockout rounds and Final, just like the real Tournament.
The Primary school-aged teams compete on Tuesday, 4 October followed by the intermediate school-aged teams on Wednesday, 5 October. Games will run from 9.30am – through pool play, Quarter and Semi Finals, before the top two teams contest the Final from around 1.30pm.
Get behind your local team and come and support Auckland and New Zealand’s future Rugby stars.
Rippa Rugby is a safe, easy to play game for both boys and girls. There are no scrums, conversions, lineouts or kicking – meaning anyone can give the game a go.
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