By NEALE HARVEY
DEFENDING champions Crusaders will remain the team to beat when Super Rugby’s Australasian conferences kick-off this week, says Highlanders defence coach Glenn Delaney.
However, the former London Irish man reckons his Dunedin-based Highlanders are ready to lay on a show with one of the finest back-lines in New Zealand at their disposal, including the fully fit and rested All Blacks full-back Ben Smith.
Smith, 31, missed New Zealand’s November tour after taking a sabbatical, but ahead of Friday’s opener against the Blues Delaney told The Rugby Paper: “...