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**Bartercard Cup**

Club name	Wellington Orcas
First Season	2002
Ground	Basin Reserve Porirua Park Hutt Recreation Ground Ascot Park
Coach	Paul Bergman

See also: Wellington Rugby League

The Wellington Orcas were a franchise in the now-defunct Bartercard Cup rugby league competition in New Zealand. They represented Wellington.

The Orca nickname was adopted for the 2006 season, adopting the name from the Southern Orcas consortium - a group attempting to gain an expansion National Rugby League competition license that was instead granted to the Gold Coast Titans group. Previously they were known as Wellington Franchise.

Wellington Rugby League

[edit] History

In 2000 and 2001 the region was represented in the Bartercard Cup by the Porirua Pumas and Wainuiomata Lions. However in 2002 it was decided that one team was needed in the competition. They narrowly missed out on a finals spot in 2002, being on equal points but with a lower For and Against than the Marist Richmond Brothers. Unfortunately this was a high point for the franchise with the team never making the play-offs.

Season	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Position (Teams)	Finals
2002	16	9	1	6	547	449	98	19	Sixth (Twelve)	N/A
2003	16	4	1	11	460	646	-186	6*	Eleventh (Twelve)	N/A
2004	16	8	1	7	465	409	56	17	Sixth (Twelve)	N/A
2005	16	5	3	8	418	459	-41	13	Eighth (Twelve)	N/A
2006	18	6	0	12	452	549	-97	12	Seventh (Ten)	N/A
2007	18	10	0	8	509	529	-20	20	Sixth (10)	N/A

*Wellington were docked three points for registration infringements.

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