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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoPoints machine du Preez puts in flawless display
By SAM JACKSON 38-point haul: Sharks playmaker Robert du Preez ROBERT du Preez scored 38 points as the Sharks crushed the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoWilliams close to joining Deano
DEAN RICHARDS is looking to complete the signing of London Irish centre Johnny Williams once the Exiles’ relegation from the Premiership...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoON THE BLIND SIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ■ LEICESTER TIGERS prop Logovi’i Mulipola has been made an offer to join Pro...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoSharks are circling around prop Matt
Move? Matt Mullan is being tempted away from Wasps The Scarlets are set to sign electric Cheetahs full-back Clayton Blommetjies. Blommetjies,...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoNot-guilty Jackson on his way to Premiership
IRELAND international Paddy Jackson could look to rebuild his career with a move to the Premiership next season. Blindside understands Premiership...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoPaul’sgoing strong – 15 years after his first cap
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Any day now Paul James will qualify for membership of an exclusive club,...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoMystery of Murdoch ends with his death
EVER since Keith Murdoch stepped off the team bus on that wintry Monday morning in Cardiff, those left behind clung to...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoHighlanders led to slaughter by Lam’s brilliant strikes
By SAM JACKSON THE Hurricanes delivered a lesson in clinical finishing to beat the Highlanders 29-12 in a fierce match in...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoDiamond upbeat despite Charnley project failure
By JON NEWCOMBE SALE SHARKS boss Steve Diamond says he wouldn’t hesitate to make another crosscode raid – if the right...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoSaints to part ways with Myler
NORTHAMPTON standoff Stephen Myler is to leave the club at the end of the season with Wales No.10 Dan Biggar joining...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years ago‘Sick man’ Willemse inspires Stormers to banish the Blues
By SAM JACKSON STORMERS bounced back from a winless tour of Australasia with victory over the Blues to move second in...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoMaunder skippers England against Scotland
NEWS EXTRA ENGLAND U18s head coach John Fletcher has made sweeping changes to his side to play Scotland at Stirling County...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoRoberts heading west to fill Tapuai gap at the Rec
TRANSFER WRAP WALES centre Jamie Roberts will join Bath from Harlequins at the end of the season. Roberts has won 94...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoCrusaders are Caned on Beauden’s big day
■ By GEORGE LAWRENCE BEAUDEN Barrett made his 100th Super Rugby appearance in the Hurricanes’ 29-19 triumph over the Crusaders. The...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoCane’s young Chiefs show fighting spirit
INJURY-HIT Chiefs survived raid after raid from a fast-finishing Blues to win 27-21 in Auckland. ■By GEORGE LAWRENCE Eye for the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoCrusaders spark into life with late power surge
By OLIVER SINCLAIR THE Crusaders started the defence of their Super Rugby title with a 45-23 bonus-point win over the Chiefs....
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoStormers stand firm to thwart late fight-back
By GEOFF WHITELY Stormers 28 Jaguares 20 THE Stormers held out a late rally to win their opening Super Rugby match...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoMapoe double gets Lions off to a flyer
By SAM JACKSON Lions 26 Sharks 19 Dangerman: Lionel Mapoe PICTURE: Getty Images SET-PIECE dominance laid the foundation for the Lions’...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoCrusaders favourites for title – Delaney
By NEALE HARVEY DEFENDING champions Crusaders will remain the team to beat when Super Rugby’s Australasian conferences kick-off this week, says...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoAdvantage laws have become a hindrance
THE mania for keeping an already frantic and attack friendly game fluid in the name of entertainment has reached epidemic proportions...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoOne drug test a season is not enough
FIRST the good news. The RPA reports that for last season (2016-17) there was not a single anti doping violation in...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
French break the mould with move to Marseilles BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Formidable...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoShehadie helped shape the game on global scale
Visionary: Shehadie THERE are 230,000 Australians who can claim Lebanese ancestry and many of the sport-minded gravitate to Rugby League. Wallaby...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoCrusaders deny dream ending for Ackermann
By NICK VERDIER Lions …………………17pts Tries: Marx 64, Fourie 73 Conversions: Janjtjies 65, 73 Penalty: Janjtjies 27 Crusaders…………25pts Tries: Tamanivalu 8,...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoRead leads Kiwi charge to restore the world order
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Although it might be a slight exaggeration to claim that the Crusaders’ Super Rugby triumph at Ellis Park...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoRuthless Crusaders march into final with Tamanivalu at double
By NICK VERDIER Match-winner: Seta Tamanivalu scored twice to give the Crusaders the win Out: Brodie Retallick picked up the only...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoAckermann has wish come true
By NICK VERDIER Back to back: Kwagga Smith scores to secure a a second consecutive final for the Lions THE Lions...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoSunwolves end season on a high as Keino binned
By ADAM ELLIS THE Sunwolves rounded off their second year in Super Rugby with a maiden win over New Zealand opposition,...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoSopoaga in box seat as Highlanders extend run
By NICK VERDIER THE HIGHLANDERS recorded their ninth consecutive victory of the season to keep momentum building in the pursuit of...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoIrish in for Armitage brothers?
LONDON IRISH were still celebrating their return to the Premiership when rumours of the Armitage brothers returning to the club reached...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoJones calls for football style coaches’ union
BY NEIL FISSLER ENGLAND boss Eddie Jones believes that rugby coaches need a trade union to look after their interests after...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoTigers battle to keep hold of Betham
LEICESTER Tigers’ former Wallaby international Peter Betham appears to be at the centre of a tug of war between Exeter and...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoCrusaders in the clear for a home semi-final
By NICK VERDIER THE Crusaders maintained their perfect record with a 31-24 win over the Chiefs in Suva on Friday to...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoSchmidt brings in new faces
NEWS EXTRA JOE Schmidt has included eight uncapped players in his Ireland squad for the three-Test tour of the USA and...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoMo’unga’s boot keeps Crusaders riding high
By LUKE JARMYN RICHIE MO’UNGA’S penalty against the run of play with just minutes to spare saw the Crusaders sink the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoNaholo try clinches stunning fightback
By NICK VERDIER NEW ZEALAND teams just do not know when they are beaten as the Highlanders demonstrated with a sensational...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoForthcoming fixtures
Weekend beginning Friday, May 12, 2017 It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs FRIDAY, MAY 12...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoRead suffers thumb injury and is doubt to face Lions
By LUKE JARMYN ALL BLACKS captain Kieran Read was in hospital last night after suffering a susprected broken thumb in the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoKings upset the odds to stun sorry Waratahs
By NICK VERDIER King for a day: Michael Willemse celebrates his try PICTURE: Getty Images THE Kings might be heading for...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoBeauden brilliance saves Hurricanes
By SAM JACKSON BEAUDEN BARRETT produced a masterclass performance, albeit with another yellow card, to get the Hurricanes home 28- 24...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoSonny Bill’s back and feeling fresh for Lions
By NICK VERDIER SONNY Bill Williams made his long-awaited Blues debut yesterday after nearly a year on the sidelines but it...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoWatch 7s at Richmond
THE Lord’s Taverners, the UK charity that provides young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with disabilities the chance to enjoy...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoWade named best in March
LETHAL Wasps finisher Christian Wade has been named the Aviva Premiership Player of the Month for March. The winger, who has...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoWilliams in the dock
A FRENCH court has fined former New Zealand international Ali Williams £1,280 for buying cocaine outside a Paris nightclub. The 35-year-old...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoFitness guru Morrow gets Gatland call
RUGBY SHORTS SARACENS’ unsung hero Phil Morrow has been signed up by Warren Gatland for this summer’s Lions tour. Morrow, performance...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoForthcoming fixtures
It is advisable to check matches and kick-off times with the clubs Week beginning Sunday, April 9th, 2017 ... Continue reading......
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoSheedy could still hold key to Bristol survival
NEWS EXTRA CALLUMSheedy is unlikely to play a single Premiership minute for Bristol this season but the young fly-half could still...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoDickson may quit Saints for Bedford
By JON NEWCOMBE NORTHAMPTON legend Lee Dickson could see out his professional career as a Bedford player in the Championship. The...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoBrothers in arms keep Kiwi sides riding high
By NICK VERDIER THE Barrett and Ioane brothers were on fire yesterday with standout performances to hand the Hurricanes and the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 8 years agoWallabies set to go on strike if Force are axed
NEWS EXTRA AUSTRALIA’S professional rugby players may go on strike early next year if one of their Super Rugby teams is...
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