Feilding Old Boys Oroua is a rugby club based at Nelson Street in

Feilding Feilding ( mi, Aorangi) is a town in the Manawatū District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 54, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North. The town is the seat of the Manawatū District Council. Feilding has ...

and Kimbolton Road in Kimbolton,

Manawatū District Manawatū District is a territorial authority district in the Manawatū-Whanganui local government region in the North Island of New Zealand, administered by Manawatū District Council. It includes most of the area between the Manawatū River ...

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ...

. It is a constituent club of the

Manawatu Rugby Union The Manawatu Rugby Football Union (MRU) is the governing body of the sport of rugby union in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. Founded in 1886, Manawatu is one of New Zealand's oldest rugby unions. In 1892, the MRU, amongst other ...

and play under the name "The Stags", although the club is often referred to as "FOBO". In 2009 the Feilding Old Boys club merged with the Oroua club, based in Kimbolton. The club also combined rugby and netball clubs. The main rival club is

commonly referred to as Feilding Yellows. The respective club-rooms are based on either side of the rugby field at Johnston Park.

Oroua union

An Oroua union was formed in 1896 comprising teams from Cheltenham, Colyton, Ruahine, Birmingham (now Kimbolton) and Āpiti. The union was disbanded in 1898 and in 1909 Oroua became a sub-union of the Manawatu union.

Honours

The Stags made the 2010 Hankins Shield final but lost 11–10 to Varsity, the Massey University team. In 2018 the Stags went one better to win the Hankins Shield beating the Feilding Yellows 24–22 in the final. The club's women's team have won the Prue Christie Cup in 2015, 2016 and 2018.

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