Although originally founded as the Super 12 competition in 1996, two more Super Rugby teams were added to the tournament in 2006 to change the name to Super 14, and in 2011, Super Rugby, as the addition of new team Melbourne Rebels expanded the competition to 15 teams. The 2012 Super Rugby competition was won by the Chiefs, who dominated the Sharks 37-6 to claim their maiden Super Rugby title.
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Super Rugby teams will skin the Lions
by The Crowd, 22 May 2013
The last time the British and Irish Lions toured here, 2001, Australian teams won three contests: the last two Tests and the Australia A game. The Lions won all the other matches – they beat Western Australia, a Queensland Presidents XV, the Reds, the Waratahs, a NSW Country side and the Brumbies who went down [...]
Super B to the rescue for rugby?
by Working Class Rugger, 22 May 2013
In case many may have missed it, our new leader Bill Pulver has returned from his expedition to the land of milk and Guinness in his efforts to gauge the temperament of the IRB on his proposed law variations for his Super B brainchild. Perhaps of little surprise to many, they really had no issue [...]
Roar Stats from Super Rugby Round 12
by The Roar, 21 May 2013
The only game in town: Quade v JOC by the numbers – we start this week with the hottest topic in Australian Rugby at present. Who should be the Wallaby number 10? Coach Robbie Deans has opted for James O’Connor. Queensland coach Ewen McKenzie says he is as suspect defensively as his man, Quade Cooper. [...]
Jesse Mogg needs to move back to Queensland
by Rob from Brumby Country, 21 May 2013
Jesse Mogg is the greatest Australian rugby find of his generation. Forget Quade Cooper, James O’Connor, Kurtley Beale, even Israel Folau. Prodigious talents though they may be, they possess but a spark of the ability of the Canberra-based Queenslander. Okay, clean your keyboards, I was exaggerating a little there. But it might not be far [...]
Waratahs building momentum says Barnes
by James MacSmith, 21 May 2013
Playmaker Berrick Barnes says the NSW Waratahs are finally starting to find some consistent form after a slow start to their Super Rugby season under new coach Michael Cheika. The Waratahs have won three successive games and turned around their round-three mauling at the hands of the Brumbies in March with an impressive 28-22 come-from-behind [...]
Rebels’ confidence up for Waratahs clash
by Sam Lienert, 21 May 2013
The Melbourne Rebels’ drought-breaking Super Rugby win over the Stormers has created confidence they can achieve another breakthrough against the NSW Waratahs on Friday night. Last Friday night’s thrilling 30-21 victory by the undermanned Rebels was their first over a South African side and broke a run of four frustratingly close losses. James O’Connor, one [...]
Open letter to ARU CEO Bill Pulver (pt two): nationalise Super Rugby
by kingplaymaker, 21 May 2013
The second chapter of this somewhat slow-burning series has arrived, and with an apparently meagre theme, hardly justifying large-scale treatment. But while the subject might seem a triviality, it is a dainty alteration to the body of Super rugby that nonetheless aims to effect a strikingly transformative impression. A leitmotif of this series has been [...]
Finals talk taboo for NSW Waratahs
by Darren Walton, 20 May 2013
The NSW Waratahs are refusing to talk finals football despite continuing on their impressive roll towards the Super Rugby playoffs with a gritty win over the stumbling Brumbies. NSW’s 28-22 triumph earned the Waratahs three straight wins for the first time in three years, bumped the Brumbies off the top of the ladder and raised [...]
Berrick Barnes inspirational in Tahs win over Brumbies
by David Lord, 19 May 2013
The Waratahs can thank utility back Berrick Barnes for their gripping 28-22 win over the front-running Brumbies at ANZ Stadium last night. Barnes came on from the bench for the second half to replace the injured Rob Horne. Up to that point the Brumbies led 13-6, with the Waratahs playing like lost sheep, despite winning [...]
Cheetahs vs Reds: Super Rugby live scores, blog
by Max Kenney-Herbert, 19 May 2013 
Round 14 sees the seventh-placed Cheetahs play host to the fourth-placed Reds at Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein. We’ll have live scores and a blog from 3.10am AEST. The Cheetahs have won seven of their 11 matches so far in what has been somewhat of a breakout season for a team with a lot of young [...]
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