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For quality, the Super Rugby competition regularly produces the best moments, but occasionally a Northern Hemisphere story outweighs all others for significance - and…
A 2001 trip to Fiji, as described by one subscriber, would have been when Nemani Nadolo was a teenager. Her worst memory of that…
Workmates and I were discussing the Blues' 33-31 victory over the Highlanders on Friday, agreeing it was a promising start to Tana Umaga's tenure…
Sunday morning started with another Japanese masterclass in diligence and teamwork as they blitzed Samoa from the outset at Milton Keynes to run away…
The table-topping Hurricanes made short work of the Blues at Eden Park on Saturday night, stepping out to a 29-5 win and not needing…
Darwinism was particularly cruel to the unviables this weekend, and even some of the more advanced rugby species saw their habitats shrink. Slipping around…
It's a little twee perhaps, on the weekend we honour our fallen, to talk of rugby players as heroes. But I'd like to begin…
There were moments during the Brisbane Test when I thought the Bledisloe Cup and Tri-Nations were lost to New Zealand. Jonathan Kaplan was whistling…
Robbie Deans and the Wallabies pulled off a tremendous victory in Durban. The Springboks had been humiliated 0-19 a week before by the All…
You could break down the scoring sequence of Saturday’s test into fairly simple notation, and by doing so get almost a more complete a…
The All Blacks staged one of their more memorable turnarounds in recent times with a 39-10 drubbing of the Wallabies at Eden Park on…
It’s impossible to know whether Richie McCaw would have made a difference to the awful result on Saturday night. Daniel Braid’s suitability as McCaw’s…
Schalk Burger is absolutely loving this, playing the All Blacks without Jerry Collins breathing down his neck. The absence of Richie McCaw is another…
As usual, from the outset in Wellington on Saturday night the Springboks tried to upset the All Blacks’ rhythm with jersey-pulling, late charges and…
The All Blacks were expected to thrash England in the second test at Christchurch and they did, but it cost them the services of…
But now that Dan Carter and Richie McCaw are on new contracts, with special conditions built in reflecting their standing as great All Blacks,…
The first test after the failed World Cup campaign was always going to be acidic. Those wetbacks who couldn’t put the past behind them…
The Super 14 final in Christchurch was one of those rare perfect games between two teams that are both peaking and both having complimentary…
History wasn’t just repeating itself when the Crusaders beat the Hurricanes 33-22 on Saturday night. It was bettering itself. All those other times the…
The Blues beating the Hurricanes 19-17 got things off on the wrong foot... well, for anyone other than the rabid optimists predicting a miracle…
