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Having been put through the mill over the past month playing the top four teams in the DHL Super Rugby Pacific competition, the Highlanders are heading to Australia to put lessons from those games into practice.

The enforcement of a shot clock on kicks for goal and from hand, together with focusing on restarts, has begun to make inroads into…

The enforcement of a shot clock on kicks for goal and from hand, together with focusing on restarts, has begun to make inroads into…

Action aplenty marked the opening round of DHL Super Rugby Pacific as new laws had their impact, but not in the anticipated manner.

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Knowing the Hurricanes had played like energiser bunnies in the first two rounds of DHL Super Rugby Pacific has the Highlanders aware of what to expect in Wellington on Saturday evening.

The Highlanders have named their first team of the DHL Super Rugby Pacific season. They will be playing the Chiefs on Saturday at 4:35pm in Queenstown.

Patelesio Tomkinson has been ruled out of Super Rugby Pacific, but the door has opened for a trio of exciting young players to come in as injury cover.

OPINION: Taranaki's Tom Florence leads the list of players who showed class in the NPC but weren't rewarded by the five NZ clubs or Moana Pasifika.

The flanker starts in place of Billy Harmon, who moves to the bench as coach Clarke Dermody shuffles the pack for another trip to Australia.