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The co-coaches have mustered an 8-8 record since taking over last year, making the 9 titles Canterbury won between 2008-2017 seem an age ago.

Where does your team rank after the latest round of the national provincial championship?

03/07/2021 App users please click here  Māori All Blacks 38 (Lowe x2, Wainui, Dixon, penalty tryx2, Ioane 1con, Black con) bt Manu Samoa  HT 19-7 Fulltime - Thats a wrap. Better game than last week with Manu Samoa looking much more polished tonight.  take the two penaty tries out of that one and it was a super close game. 80mins - Try Manu Samoa: Kalolo Tuiloma - Well deserved try, Pick and go and eventually the big prop crashes over to end the game on a high. MAB 38-21 78mins -...

From pretenders to contenders, Leon MacDonald's men have finally found the right formula in 2021.

Soon enough it will be again be time for the All Blacks. It will be time for the almost unbridled positivity of the Super Rugby season to be replaced by the almost completely unjustifiable pessimism of the All Black’s fan’s perspective. Though maybe a little of that pessimism is caused by the team not matching […]

Why the sting is in the tail at lineout time A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Australian supporters can sit back, relax and take a breath. The pain is over. When all is said and done, two teams from New Zealand – the Blues and Highlanders – will be contesting the first-ever Super Rugby Trans-Tasman final. The Kiwi sides have dominated the tournament, winning 23 out of 25 matches, and they have offered ...

OPINION: A couple of victories from 25 matches is dismal reading for Australian fans, but Rugby Australia would be negligent to bail on the mooted 12-team competition next year.

OPINION: Say what you will about the trans-Tasman competition, just don’t expect Blues and Highlanders fans to lend an ear.

Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara was indicted into ICC Hall of Fame yesterday. He’s the second Sri Lankan to be recognized after Muttiah Muralitharan, who was inducted in 2019.  Vinoo Mankad, Desmond Haynes, Andy Flower were among the 10 legends of the game to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame on Sunday. In the Early Cricket Era (pre-1918), South African Aubrey Faulkner was inducted, along with Australia’s Monty Noble. In the Inter-war era (1918-1945), West Indies’ Learie Co...

by Rajitha Ratwatte Hurricanes at home to the Queensland Reds at Sky Stadium in Wellington. Basically, a dead rubber with the finals now definitely between two of the Kiwi teams and the Hurricanes all but ruled out. The tournament also taking on an air of “much of a sameness” and only the Australian teams showing improvement, probably due to playing better opposition. The Kiwi teams getting sloppier and losing their discipline and professionalism as the tournament progressed. A notable feat...