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The three week break for the winter international tours is now over and it is time for Super Rugby again. The finals are only three weeks away and there are nine teams still in contention for the final six finals spots. There is not a round left that does not have two or three games [...]
The Super Rugby season has been in a three week hiatus while the internationals were played out so now it’s time to get back into it and take a look back at the performances of the teams in the fifteen rounds that have passed. In this week’s article I’m going to run the ruler over [...]
It was another riveting round of Super Rugby in round 14 that saw no real front runners for the wild card spots in the finals appear. The Hurricanes, Highlanders, Reds and Sharks all secured important wins. In the context of their seasons the points differential boosting flogging the ‘Canes imparted on the Rebels and the [...]
It was another intriguing week of fixtures in round 13 of Super Rugby last week that has given no real clarity to the ultimate make up of the final 6. Key victories to the Highlanders, the Sharks and the Reds see them continuing to jostle for 6th spot and while the Hurricanes lost last week [...]
Each week of the 2012 season of Super Rugby has brought with it more twists and turns than an Stuart MacBride novel (I know this is a rugby column but seriously you should check out his stuff) and last week was no different with the Crusaders falling to the Rebels, the Stormers pushed all the [...]
What an amazing week it has been in the world of Super 15 Rugby: “Genia Gate” has dominated the airwaves and set social media followers in to a meltdown. With this going on it is easy to forget that we had another excellent round of rugby last week, highlighted by the key contenders for this [...]
We are now past the halfway point in this year’s Super Rugby season and the points table is starting to take shape with some surprises, in the Chiefs and Brumbies, and the some of the usual suspects, in the Stormers and Crusaders, coming to the front of the pack. There are some key games over [...]
It is has been another interesting week in the world of Super Rugby with some great games on the park last weekend and some machinations behind the scenes this week that has seen one franchise become coach-less for 2013. The match of the round between the Crusaders and the Stormers last week was an epic [...]
It is hard to believe that we are already into Round 8 of the Super Rugby season. It would be fair to say that so far this season has been highlighted by unpredictability and upsets with some of the fancied teams languishing behind their less fancied rivals (particularly in the Australian and New Zealand conferences). [...]
Last week presented another interesting round of games that saw the Crusaders return to Christchurch and be tested by the Cheetahs, the Highlanders’ undefeated run come to end while the Rebels broke their duck this year and the Reds were, there is no better word for it, smashed. This week the Blues have a much [...]
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