Christchurch rugby club Suburbs fighting for its future as junior group tries to break awayThe future looks bleak for 70-year-old Suburbs rugby club, president Richard Gibbons says. The Canterbury Rugby Football Union (CRFU) is expected to make a decision next week on the fate of 70-year-old Christchurch rugby club Suburbs. Suburbs claims it faces extinction if junior club Halswell Wigram is successful in its bid to break away and form its own club. DAVID WALKER/STUFF The Black Horse Hotel in Addington, which houses the temporary Suburbs rugby clubrooms. "The CRFU certainly respects the 70-year-old history of the Suburbs Rugby Club.

Source: Stuff February 28, 2018 21:56 UTC