Steve Hepburn

This was a grind — a dogged battle in which little could split the sides.

The Highlanders will only have one full training run before one of their biggest games of the season — but the opposition is in the same boat.

It was a light round of action in the Otago Premier School competition today.

Former Black Caps all-rounder Jimmy Neesham is talking to other associations and may have played his last game for the Volts.

Tevita Nabura’s Highlanders season looks as good as over.

This weekend is the time to be on your best behaviour on the sideline.

It has been a disrupted week for the Highlanders but now it becomes just about the men on the paddock.

Sheree Hume will bring up 100 games for the Pirates women’s team this afternoon and that in itself is a mighty effort.

If anyone needed an example of the haves and the have-nots in the Central Otago club competition then one only had to look at last Saturday's games.

The Highlanders will have their All Black commitments done and dusted after this week but will be without a few key men when they take on the Reds in Brisbane tomorrow night.

Mark Hammett will take charge of the Highlanders this weekend but he has experienced heads around him.

The wait goes on for Tevita Nabura.

As the second  round of Dunedin premier club rugby gets under way, rugby writer Steve Hepburn takes a look at how the nine teams rank. 

The Highlanders are not letting the Tasman Sea get in the way of preparations for this weekend's match.

Neil Broom is retiring from the longer version of the game but will keep playing white-ball cricket for Otago.

Often it is not until you leave somewhere that you realise how great it has been.

Age does not appear to be slowing Corran Munro down.

The Sanzaar foul play committee hearing for Highlanders winger Tevita Nabura will take place today, having been put off due to the player flying back to New Zealand.

Where is the dunny?