Melbourne host Endeavour Hills with both sides desperate to record victories after being overrun late in Round Six. Anare Koliavu, Melbourne Head Coach, said that the Dewar Shield is a competition on the rise.
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The Melbourne Unicorns are calling all girls between the age of twelve and seventeen to get involved in the Australian Rugby Union’s (ARU) new VIVA Sevens Sport competition. A fun, non-contact and fast-paced game of rugby sevens.
The Unicorns are backing their thorough off-season preparation to start paying dividends as the team works its way toward a more cohesive, match-winning unit.
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Season 2015 begins this Saturday for Junior Pathway Players (U6 – U10) and Junior Competition Players (U11 – U18) and it is promising to be another great year for rugby at the mighty Unicorns.
Melbourne Unicorns have secured their first win of the 2015 Direct Connect #DewarShield season, defeating Power House in the competition’s Round Five Match of the Round.
In the #DewarShield Match of the Round, Power House and Melbourne will be battling for their first win of the season; they are two teams who were considered strong finals chances before we kicked off, however each have been victims of a tough bye and an inability to hold out in defence, with each leaking an average of over 30 points per game.
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Tumai Edwards, current Assistant Coach for the Melbourne Unicorn’s Premier 1 team, has been named as Assistant Coach of the U18 Australian Rugby Sevens side. He led the Rebels U18s Boy Rugby Sevens team to a runner up finish in the National Rugby Sevens Championships earlier this year.
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In the #DewarShield Match of the Round the Melbourne Unicorns, still searching for their first win of the season, got out of the blocks quickly with fly-half Paul McConnochie slotting two difficult penalties in the early stages of the match, the second from right out on the wing.
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The Melbourne Unicorns President’s Lunch last week saw an esteemed gathering treated to some wonderful tales from one of Australian sports’ finest.
The tri-annual event, which included motivational speeches from RaboDirect Rebels’ Telusa Veainu and Luke Burgess, was MC’d by former Australian Cricketer and AFL player Max Walker, also a former commentator on the Nine Network.
The Direct Connect Dewar Shield Match of the Round promises to be a cracker, as top of the table Melbourne Uni host Melbourne Unicorns, yet to register a win but having come so close in a one-point loss and a draw thus far.
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