All Blacks loose forward Liam Squire’s comeback from injury has been delayed as he deals with personal issues that ruled him out of the Highlanders Super Rugby trip to South Africa.
Taniela Tupou has been a Queenslander for less than five years yet an unguarded moment in the dressing room has captured just how much it will mean to break the Waratahs’ 10-game stranglehold.
From the moment this season kicked off, the Waratahs have been cursed, relentlessly punished both on and off the field, with NSW’s latest antagonist coming in the form of referee Egon Seconds.
Israel Folau has contacted Pacific Islander players urging them to stand in solidarity with him for expressing his Christian beliefs in a move that would create a public-relations nightmare for RA.
COACH Daryl Gibson will get his underachieving NSW Waratahs watching the Super Rugby final to see just how much they need to improve after a disastrous 2017 campaign.
CANCER survivor Christian Lealiifano will make a remarkable return for the Brumbies in Friday’s Super Rugby quarter-final against the Hurricanes.
WARATAHS defence coach Nathan Grey said he’ll conduct an exhaustive review after a “shattering” season that ended with the worst ever NSW defensive record.
AUSTRALIA’S ailing Super Rugby fortunes are best summed up by one out of many damning statistics. No, it’s not the horrendous 0-25 record of all the Aussie sides against their New Zealand opponents.
THE much maligned format for the Super Rugby finals series is coming in for more criticism, especially from New Zealanders, now that the protagonists have been settled.
THE Western Force may just have amassed the on and off-field ammunition to survive the Super Rugby cull ahead of the Melbourne Rebels.
BESIEGED Waratahs coach Daryl Gibson insists he’s the right man to turn around NSW’s flagging Super Rugby fortunes despite overseeing one of the worst campaigns in the franchise’s history.
THE statistics are damning, but the Brumbies insist Australia’s diabolical trans-Tasman Super Rugby record is irrelevant ahead of their quarterfinal against the Hurricanes.
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