15/08/2012 Hawke's Bay made no race of the pre-competition rugby match against Manawatu winning 37-13 at Napier today. The Magpies made most of the running throughout, scoring four tries to just a solitary try by Manawatu captain Nick Crosswell 11 minutes from the start. The game started ominously for the Manawatu Turbos when
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Hernandez returns for Pumas’ Championship debut
August 15, 2012 Argentina flyhalf Juan Martin Hernandez will make his first Test appearance in three years in the Rugby Championship match against South Africa on Saturday. The 30-year-old has suffered a string of injuries since helping his country finish third at the 2007 World Cup. His last test was against England
16 years of All Blacks Tri-Nations history
FAREWELL Tri-Nations , Hello Rugby Championship We take a look at the Tri-Nations' most successful team, New Zealand, which has won ten of the 16 championships on offer, ahead of the maiden season of The Investec Rugby Championship. It has been a remarkable period for the All Blacks since 1996, winning more
Wallabies name team to face All Blacks
SBW free to play for All Blacks
Aug 13, 2012 Sonny Bill Williams' availability for the All Blacks opening two matches of the Rugby Championship has been officially confirmed. Williams comes into the All Blacks squad for the back-to-back Bledisloe Cup matches as an injury replacement for Conrad Smith. Williams did not train with the squad in Auckland on Friday,
Currie Cup still has a kick
12-08-2012 Cape Town - The Currie Cup is like the boxer who takes a terrible pounding but, fuelled by astonishing levels of pride, simply refuses to crash to the canvas. Why, we may have seen just enough quality in the first round of the compressed, increasingly marginalised 2012 competition to suggest that
ITM Cup Pre Season
All Blacks two from two in training games
The All Blacks got two wins from two games at ECOLight stadium tonight, beating Counties Manukau 12-0 and following this up with a 14-5 victory over Auckland. In an unusual, but highly successful night, the All Blacks players got just the hit out they needed before the Rugby Championships, while the
New Magpies Coach Craig Philpott has named his 32 man squad
With a mix of some exciting young local talent interspersed with a large group of experienced Magpies, this is a very balanced and competitive squad. The squad features the inclusion of 13 players who have experienced Super rugby including Hika Elliot, Ben Tameifuna, Andrew Horrell and Tino Nemani who were all
Aussies defend ‘weak’ Cooper
Aug 10, 2012 Quade Cooper's fellow Wallabies have leapt to his defence after former All Blacks coach Graham Henry called him the team's "glaring weakness" at last year's World Cup. In his recently released biography The Final Word, Henry said: "Quade Cooper was plainly the weakest link. Coach Robbie Deans had taken