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The 30-year-old has found similarities between the Crusaders and Leinster.

The Super Rugby Aotearoa champs ran in nine tries in a 63-28 victory over the Reds. Crusaders coach Scott Robertson is hopeful Ethan Blackadder will pass all his concussions protocols this week and believes the teak-tough Tasman backrower new-found versatility offers him the chance to “push for higher honours’’. Blackadder passed the first stage of his head injury assessment tests after leaving the field in the 74th minute of the unbeaten Crusaders’ commanding 63-28 Super Rugby Trans-T...

“The parade broke all records. Christchurch City Council organisers estimated it attracted a crowd of more than 100,000, outstripping the 1995 America’s Cup crowd of 60,000. “The large silver cup rode on the leading vehicle, under the watchful eye of minder Steve Lancaster. With him was captain Todd Blackadder, seeming not to notice placards exhorting him to stand for mayor.” Crean wrote that it took the parade more than an hour to inch its way through the central city, as players an...

Beauden Barrett and his Suntory Sungoliath marched on to top spot in their Japan conference. Kiwis Robbie Deans and Milton Haig, the only coaches with head coaching experience in test rugby in the Top League, are in pole position for the playoffs after the Panasonic Wild Knights and Suntory Sungoliath won their respective conferences in Japan at the weekend. The Wild Knights needed to beat Yamaha Jubilo in order to stay above the Kobelco Steelers in the white conference and achieved the assign...

Beauden Barrett of the Suntory Sungoliath tiptoes clear of the defence once again. Beauden Barrett’s Suntory Sungoliath are alone with a perfect record in the 16-team Japan Top League, after the All Blacks first five-eighth rescued his side in the final moments for the second week running. On the same day his Super Rugby side the Blues toppled his old team the Hurricanes, Barrett lived up to his star billing again as Suntory beat Ryan Crotty’s Kubota Spears 33-26. Suntory appeared to be c...

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Damage in Koorimachi, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan after the quake. Japan-based All Blacks star Beauden Barrett has reacted to the powerful 7.3 earthquake which has rocked Japan. “That was big earthquake, Japan,’’ the Blues first five-eighths tweeted minutes after the quake centred 60km beneath the ocean bed late on Saturday. Barrett, his wife Hannah and their baby daughter Millie are living in Fuchū in the western Tokyo metropolis where he has joined the Suntory Sungoliath...

TOP LEAGUE Former Crusaders and Wallabies coach Robbie Deans worries about the game in the south as Japans Top League goes from strength to strength. The secret is out about Japans Top League and overseas players and coaches know it. All Blacks Beauden Barrett and Brodie Retallick, Springbok Malcolm Marx and Wallaby Samu Kerevi, among many others, will ply their trade in Japans domestic competition this year, before it turns fully professional in 2022. Tim Hales/Photosport Robbie Deans is carr...

Crusaders and Canterbury assistant-coach Mark Jones has taken a coaching job in England with Worcester. Crusaders coach Scott Robertson may be in charge of a reduced coaching staff for all of 2021 Former Wales international Mark Jones, who assisted Robertson last year and also worked with Canterbury during the Mitre 10 Cup, has confirmed he won’t fulfil his 2 year contract with both organisations after electing to remain in Britain and accept a role as senior assistant coach with English pre...