Club rugby, pathways, and rugby memory.
Huddy Sports follows New Zealand rugby from the ground up, with relaxed interviews shaped by club seasons, school teams, sevens tournaments, and representative pathways. It is strongest when players, referees, and collectors talk through the places, jerseys, and moments that made their rugby lives matter.
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Huddy Sports is a New Zealand rugby conversation with a strong Wellington club and school rugby spine. It works close to the ground. Recent episodes are built around Swindell Shield rounds, wet Saturdays in the capital, sevens legs at Mary Crowther and Trentham Memorial Park, and first 15 players preparing for bigger stages. The format is interview-led, with the show setting a lot of context before asking for the feeling behind a moment. A guest might be asked about St. Bernard’s College, lunchtime rugby on concrete, a muddy number one field, or the pride of wearing a school jersey. Another might talk through Petone’s preseason, volleyball reps, or the jump from school rugby into premier rugby. The show is especially interested in pathways. It follows players from school to club, from local rep sides to wider provincial chances, and from fifteens into sevens. It also gives space to rugby people outside the usual player spotlight. Paul Williams is framed through a 200th first-class refereeing appointment and a Georgia-Canada test. The New Zealand Rugby Jamboree episode opens the door to collectors, jerseys, autographs, World Cup records, and the careful work of preserving rugby history. There is not much grandstanding. The value is in the names, places, teams, grades, and memories being put on record. Huddy Sports assumes its audience cares about the difference between Tawa, Petone, Hutt, Napier Boys, Hamilton Boys, Palmerston North, and the competitions around them. That local fluency gives the show its shape. Episodes can include sponsor reads and loose live-show moments, but the core remains steady. It is a clubroom archive in podcast form. For rugby followers who care about the people coming through, the season taking shape, and the history sitting behind the next kickoff, Huddy Sports offers detail that broader rugby media usually leaves out.
Made for: Huddy Sports is for New Zealand rugby followers who care about club rounds, school rugby, sevens, representative pathways, and the people behind local results. It especially suits fans already comfortable with Wellington rugby names, grounds, and rivalries.
What sets it apart: Its strength is patient local specificity: fixtures, schools, jerseys, trophies, memorabilia, and career milestones are treated as the main story, not background color. The show gives grassroots rugby the same careful attention larger shows reserve for elite competitions.
Join Rugby Commentator Brad Hudson on the Huddy Hui on Huddy Sports he and others interview local, national and international rugby players, administrators, coaches and other sporting personalities.Huddy Sports proudly sponsored by Michael Pinfold Plumbing and Drainlaying LTD and Louise Reddy NZ Travel Brokers.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Brad Hudson turns New Zealand rugby interviews into a close record of club contests, player pathways and the history surrounding the game.
Huddy Sports works through rugby one conversation at a time, with Brad Hudson asking players about the matches, teams and pathways that shape their involvement in the game.
Brad Hudson makes a wet Wellington Saturday feel like a fixture worth studying.
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