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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-Tasman win over the Reds in Brisbane on Saturday night. Albert Perez/Getty Images Ethan Blackadder wa...

“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 and team management shook hands with as many supporters as possible. “Stan Goston, 67, had travelle...

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 assignment comfortably, with the Hunterville-born former Wales international Hadleigh Parkes scoring two o...

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 cruising when they led 26-7 with less than half-an-hour to play before Kubota mounted a brave fightba...