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Marc Hinton12:38, May 06 2021 Anthony Au-Yeung/Getty Images With a 4-4 record, and third-place finish, the Blues have to be disappointed with their Aotearoa campaign. ANALYSIS: The great enigmas continue to confound. For all the promise dished up by last year’s breakthrough season, the Blues let some nasty old habits creep back in and took a major step backwards this Super Rugby Aotearoa campaign. For the squad Leon MacDonald had assembled, even accounting for the sabbatical of star signing Beauden Barrett, a third-place finish at 4-4, and missing a spot in the final, represents a major fa...

Kazuki Himeno named Super Rugby Aotearoa's Rookie of the Year Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ The Highlanders' Kazuki Himeno runs the ball against the Blues during a Super Rugby Aotearoa game on April 16 in Dunedin, New Zealand. | GETTY / VIA KYODO Kyodo May 5, 2021 Highlanders No. 8 Kazuki Himeno was named the Rookie of the Year in New Zealand’s Super Rugby Aotearoa tournament on Tuesday after earning the most points from journalists on the competit...

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. It's 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 can't convert the try as the siren goes.  (BLU 39-19) 79 mins  It's all going wrong for the Chiefs with players in front of the kicker to give the Blues a scrum on halfway with a minute to play. 

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...

Aaron Goile05:00, May 01 2021 Michael Bradley/Getty Images Chiefs prop Sione Mafileo believes their stunning scrum turnaround was about the pack engaging more as a unit. New Chiefs prop Sione Mafileo has lifted the lid on the secret to the team’s stunning scrummaging transformation, saying some of the players had been trying to do too much of their own thing rather than working as a pack. In mirroring the side’s remarkable change in fortunes with now a place in next weekend’s Super Rugby Aotearoa final secure thanks to five wins on the bounce, it was the team’s last defeat where the ...