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NZ Herald
a day ago
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Consecutive losses for title-contending Gisborne teams in Eastern Premiership football
Gisborne Thistle's Carlos Guerra put in a good shift when he came on in the second half of the Jags' Eastern Premiership football match against Taradale Reserves on Saturday. Thistle lost 5-3 to drop to third on the table. Photo / Paul Rickard You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. That's the prospect Gisborne teams Thistle and United face after both lost on Saturday. They were sitting in second and third places respectively until second-bottom Taradale Reserves (now third-bottom) beat Thistle 5-3 and Western Rangers (seventh in the 10-team Eastern Premiership) beat
NZ Herald
4 days ago
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- NZ Herald
Rugby: Gisborne eyeing first Callagahan Trophy victory in Super 8 clash with Rotorua
James Hamblyn, pictured playing against Manukura School, will be wearing the No 9 jersey for Gisborne Boys' High School First XV in their Super 8 clash against Rotorua BHS at the Rectory ground on Saturday. Photo / Paul Rickard A match was struck at the Rectory 30 years ago. On June 17, 1995, Gisborne Boys' High School First XV vice-captain and openside flanker Michael Green scored the only try against Rotorua BHS in the home team's first defence of the Ranfurly Shield of New Zealand secondary schools' rugby –
NZ Herald
30-05-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Hawke's Bay football teams eyeing upsets over Gisborne big guns
They will try all sorts of ways to stop Gisborne Thistle goalscoring machine Jimmy Somerton, including fouls, which earned this Port Hill player a yellow card in their recent Eastern Premiership match. Photo / Paul Rickard Gisborne teams Thistle and United face opponents who would like nothing better than to put a spanner in their works in Eastern Premiership football this weekend. Port Hill and Maycenvale are mid-table teams who can struggle against the ordinary and trouble the best. As such, they bear watching closely.
