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Different codes have adopted different approaches to what levels of "encouragement" will be tolerated. One soccer club in Auckland has sent a letter home to parents inviting them to come to their children's matches but to refrain from any verbal support

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Motivation in tough love sevens star

A damning letter by a high-security prisoner is alleging serious breaches of Corrections' protocols following his escape from a moving prison van three weeks ago.

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Escape all too easy: Inmate

Star Timu was offered the same opportunities with Hawke's Bay this season as with Northland, says Magpies coach Craig Philpott.

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Rugby: Timu sad to be heading north

Former All Black hooker Norm Hewitt's omission had tongues wagging after the inaugural Hawke's Bay Magpies Legends 1st XV was announced last night.

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Rugby: Hewitt the big loser in Legend selection

Asked why he left Hawke's Bay, Star Timu umms and aahs before explaining why he has gravitated to Whangarei in the hope of securing a Northland jersey this winter.

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Rugby: Hoping for star billing

Young rugby league players from throughout Hawke's Bay spent last week learning skills for their game and for life.

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Youth in league of their own

Here's a first for Hawke's Bay's premier club rugby competition's weekly MVP award.

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Rugby: Workaholic No 8 sings even when side's losing

If there were weekly prizes for commitment in Hawke's Bay's premier club rugby competition, Clive midfield back Billy Ropiha would have been a comfortable winner of Saturday's.

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Rugby: Ropiha shines on return home

Before Saturday's round in Hawke's Bay's Nash Cup premier club rugby competition Hastings Rugby and Sports coach Adam Bartlett drew "a bit of a road map" for his troops.

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Rugby: Hastings find new zeal

As a youngster in Central Hawke's Bay Rhonda Hira read an article about the New Zealand women's softball team touring El Salvador.

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Softball: Hira to hit third hall of fame

Former Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby coach Peter Russell's Newcastle Falcons are within one win of completing an unbeaten 22-match home-and-away league season ahead of the England Rugby Championship playoffs.

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Rugby: Russell's winning run now almost 30

If Sheridan Rangihuna wasn't playing rugby he would comfortably score a berth in the Hawke's Bay senior men's golf team.

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Rugby: Rangihuna impresses in golf run

Havelock North captain Adam Bradey admits his switch from the loose forwards to second five-eighth is a "big gamble".

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Rugby: Switch in position gives options in future

CAR SICKNESS, training, dropping to a league below during the season all sit just fine with Simon Stallard.

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Stallard relishes elite men's play

Hannah Eaton may have been better known as wife of Hawke's Bay rugby star Chris Eaton, but she had a life of her own as a mum, part-time model and in the last month, a midwifery graduate.

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Model's death rocks Hawke's Bay

MARK "Cracker" Braidwood was congratulated continuously as he entered the Napier Technical side's changing room after yesterday's opening round match in Hawke's Bay's Nash Cup premier club rugby competition.

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Cracker' thrives in third switch in engine room

It's rather ironic new Clive premier club rugby coach Darren Martin boasts the nickname "JJ".

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Rugby: Letting the good times roll

Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby coach Craig Philpott was thrilled to see winger Zac Guildford in action for the Crusaders on Saturday night.

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Positives aplenty in Guildford return

Young people working in similar jobs to adults should be paid the same wage, a Hawke's Bay youth worker says.

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Youth-rate move appals

Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby coach Craig Philpott was naturally delighted when he heard Trinity Spooner-Neera gained All Black Sevens selection yesterday.

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All Black Sevens call up

Ziggy Fisi-Ihoi, one of the stars of East Coast's Heartland Championship Meads Cup-winning team last year, is eyeing a tighthead prop berth in the Magpies ITM Cup squad.

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Rugby: Magpies eye barnstorming prop

Pre-season rugby training has been under way for several weeks now at Te Aute College.

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Rugby: Te Aute on the search for new 1st XV coach

Early last week Hawke's Bay Magpies and All Black rugby fullback Israel Dagg was texting his former Crusaders teammate Zac Guildford.

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Dagg's day to forget as Blues run riot

Don't discount the chances of former All Blacks winger Zac Guildford turning out for the Hawke's Bay Magpies this season.

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Guildford hints at Bay comeback

If Mark Atkins' rugby skills are as good as his history ones he will be a big asset to the Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby side this season.

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Rugby: Atkins set to make big splash

Hawke's Bay Rugby Football Union's revenue dropped by more than $300,000 for the second consecutive year during the 2012 financial year ... but it still avoided the red.

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Rugby: Union avoids the red

Waitakere United have broken a points record under the 14-game soccer competition format for the ASB Premiership after thumping Hawke's Bay United 3-0 at Bluewater Stadium, Napier, yesterday.

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Soccer: Leaders smash league records

Crikey ... how did Star Timu miss out on the Hawke's Bay Sevens team which played at last month's nationals in Queenstown?

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Rugby Sevens: Timu standout in HRS triumph

During his rugby coaching days in Hawke's Bay Adam McDonald was quick to sidestep favourites' tags.

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Rugby: McDonald relishes Chinese sevens role

I'm a travel snob. If I'm going to take time out of my busy schedule for a holiday, there'll be no backpacks, no smelly dorms and no "getting back to nature".

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Travel: Spas and a safari on the Sigatoka

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