After the first six rounds of Super Rugby, all four Australian teams were in the top six – but they faded badly. It paints a grim picture for the upcoming Lions series, writes JULIAN LINDEN.
More brilliance from four-try record-breaker Lachie Anderson may need to be on the menu for the Queensland Reds to upset the in-form Crusaders in Christchurch in Friday’s qualifying final of Super Rugby Pacific.
Four New Zealand teams finished in Super Rugby’s top six, leading future Wallabies coach Les Kiss to concede it will be a challenge to break their title-winning dominance.
A diabolical display has allowed the Blues to hand the Waratahs a record defeat, in a humiliating Eden Park display which also ended the Tahs’ Super Rugby season.
Brumbies’ coach Stephen Larkham has lamented his side’s ‘missed opportunity’ in their final round match of the Super Rugby Pacific season.
Reds captain Tate McDermott ‘loves’ playing for Queensland, and will continue to do so next year after rejecting the chance to ply his trade abroad.
A Waratahs and Australian international could follow in the footsteps of a reborn Wallabies star after receiving offers from clubs in New Zealand and France.
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Noah Lolesio has detailed the fear, then relief, he felt after up to eight hours in hospital due to a back injury sustained during the Brumbies’ Super Rugby match against Western Force.
The Queensland Reds will receive a welcome boost ahead of their important Super Rugby Pacific clash against Fijian Drua on Saturday night.
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It is one of the most formidable coaching teams ever assembled – and the mix of Wallabies and All Blacks all-time greats tasked with landing an early blow on the British and Irish Lions.
Waratahs coach Dan McKellar was forced to bring out the old school system to rev up his repeatedly lacklustre team over the Western Force. But in doing so, the riot act has proven Super Rugby’s ‘fundamental flaw.’
The son of a hard-nosed former Wallaby has rocketed into the frame for Joe Schmidt’s Wallabies squad to take on the physicality of the British and Irish Lions pack.
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