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Promotion to the premiership is out of the question, but Otago's three-match losing streak is over.

Veteran winds back the clock as winless Taniwha rock the Premiership leaders in a huge upset.

Marc Hinton19:20, Jul 03 2021 SKY SPORT Māori All Blacks ease past Samoa again. Job done. Clayton McMillan’s Māori All Blacks marked their 125th international appearance, and Otere Black’s farewell, by completing a clinical sweep of a gallant but outmatched Manu Samoa side at Mount Smart Stadium on Saturday. Opening an historic Pasifika-themed double-header at the home of the Warriors, the Māori worked their usual mixture of forward grunt and backline enterprise to go two from two again...

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 -...

Andrew Cornaga/Photosport Patrick Tuipulotu, left, and Dalton Papalii have finally shaken off injuries to return to action for the Blues. The Blues are clearly not buying into the woeful Waratahs storyline, returning their two fit-again All Blacks to active duty and making just three changes to the starting XV that put a half-century past the Rebels last Saturday. The bookies have the Blues as unbackable favourites to become the 10th straight team to wallop the winless Waratahs in 2021 when th...

New Zealand sides now have four wins out of four in the new Super Rugby Trans-Tasman competition.

Live coverage has concluded. Please click here for the full match wrap. Blues 50             Rebels 3 FULLTIME The siren goes. The Rebels have been put out of their misery. The Blues take the victory. 78 mins The Blues want more. The forwards move the ball to the right inside the Rebels 22, only for Koroibete to absolutely smash Laulala!  Great defence from the Fijian flyer! 75 mins - TRY BLUES The lineout throw is horrible, and Nock accepts it gratefully.  The Blues build forward befo...

After a disappointing Aotearoa campaign, the Auks head into Super Rugby Trans-Tasman with a chip on their shoulder.

Sky Super Rugby Transtasman: Blues coach Leon MacDonald misses training ahead of Rebels clash in Melbourne 13 May, 2021 02:50 AM 5 minutes to read NZ Herald Focus Sports Cheree Kinnear gives everything you need to know ahead of Super Rugby Transtasman. Video / NZ Herald NZ Herald Focus Sports Cheree Kinnear gives everything you need to know ahead of Super Rugby Transtasman. Video / NZ Herald Liam Napier is a sports writer for NZMELiam.Napier@nzherald.co.nz Leon MacDonalds absence from training ...

Chiefs - B Sullivan try; Gatland 4 penalty goals, conversion Click here for a full match wrap and highlights Full time 80 mins - Blues try to AJ Lam The Blues will get one final chance with a lineout seven-metres out. Its messy from but the home side cleans it up. Nock fires a pass wide to Sotutu who draws a defender before offloading to Lam who crashes over for his second of the evening.  Black cant convert the try as the siren goes.  (BLU 39-19) 79 mins  Its all going wrong for the Chiefs ...