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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 Sport's Cheree Kinnear gives everything you need to know ahead of Super Rugby Transtasman. Video / NZ Herald NZ Herald Focus Sport's 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 MacDonald's absence from training on Thursday adds another layer of intrigue to an opening round transtasman match in Melbourne the...

Sky Super Rugby Aotearoa: Blues beat under-strength Chiefs in dead-rubber finale 1 May, 2021 09:15 AM 5 minutes to read Blues hooker Kurt Eklund scored the game's opening try. Photo / Photosport Blues 39 Chiefs 19 The Chiefs' five-match unbeaten run is over. Not that it matters in the context of the Super Rugby Aotearoa season, or was unexpected after they made 21 changes ahead of next week's final. In fact, Saturday's loss to the Blues only enhanced Chiefs coach Clayton McMillan's confidence of potentially upsetting the Crusaders in the Christchurch final. And who could blame him. Since assu...

Highlanders win out against the Blues, who pick up a red card late on. The Blues’ road home in Super Rugby Aotearoa just got even more precipitous with the predictable suspension of their All Blacks prop Alex Hodgman for the rest of the competition. Hodgman on Monday copped a three-week suspension from the Sanzaar judiciary on the back of his red card in Friday’s Super Rugby Aotearoa defeat to the Highlanders in Dunedin. The 27-year-old, who got his first All Blacks callup in 2020, had been sent off in the 72nd minute of the sloppy 35-29 defeat for driving his shoulder into the chin of ...

App users click here for latest updates. Blues 32 Highlanders 17 Highlanders (Dixon, Fakatava tries; Ioane 2 conversions, penalty goal) Full time 77th minute - The game is turning scrappy with both sides throwing their subs on and throwing the ball around. Garden-Bachop breaks again down the wing but knocks is on in contact.  At the scrum, the Blues dominate and win a penalty on halfway.  72nd minute -  TRY HIGHLANDERS to Folau Fakatava From the lineout five metres out and the rolling maul going nowhere, Fakatavasnipes down the short side and catches the Blues napping and crashes over.  I...

Sam Darry will make his Super Rugby debut for the Blues on Sunday in their home opener. The easy option for Sam Darry would have been to stay exactly where he was, in a familiar home city, surrounded by family and friends, immersed in a proven Crusaders rugby development system and just wait for his chances to eventually roll around. But, like the proverbial salmon swimming against the current, the 20-year-old Dunedin-born Cantabrian decided to take the less travelled route and jump off the famous red and black rugby production line to come north to seek opportunity. It is fair to say the e...