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GET the inside word on the five Australian teams as we count down to the start of the 2012 Super Rugby season. MELBOURNE REBELS STRENGTHS: Speed in attack. Having added Wallabies James O'Connor and Kurtley Beale to their squad, the Rebels finally look like a team with some offensive potency

Heinrich Brussow will again line up for the Cheetahs in the 2012 Super Rugby competition. Source: The Daily Telegraph GET the inside word on the five South African teams as we count down to the start of the 2012 Super Rugby season. CHEETAHS STRENGTHS: Their Bloemfontein home base is something of

All Blacks star Ma'a Nonu could be the missing link that takes the Blues all the way this year. Source: AP GET the inside word on the five New Zealand teams as we count down to the start of the 2012 Super Rugby season. BLUES STRENGTHS: Their new recruits. Add All

The Highlanders' injury crisis is so severe they have been forced to call up their scrum coach and former All Black Kees Meeuws for their pre-season match against the Blues in Auckland tomorrow. Meeuws, a 37-year-old who played 42 tests for the All Blacks, has been drafted on to the bench

When Victor Vito describes himself as one of the elder statesmen of the Hurricanes squad, you get a sense of how inexperienced the team is. But with 34 Hurricanes caps and 13 test appearances for the All Blacks, the 24-year-old's assessment is fairly accurate. The rest of the squad - particularly the

(IRB.COM) Monday 13 February 2012   Samoa put on a superb final performance to beat Series leaders New Zealand in the Las Vegas final - Photo: IRB/Martin Seras Lima As the massed ranks of Samoan fans streamed onto the field to celebrate a memorable last-gasp victory over giants New Zealand, coach Stephen Betham

  Brumbies coach Jake White has defended  his decision to appoint the untried Ben Mowen as captain, arguing international credentials aren't a pre-requisite for the job. The former Waratah was named as skipper on Wednesday, confirming weeks of speculation that he had secured the position ahead of the  more experienced Wallabies Stephen

15/02/2012 Australian rugby circles were abuzz as it emerged that French cult rugby figure Sebastien Chabal was headed down under for the next stage of his career. But rather than head to the Waratahs or Melbourne's Rebels, reports claimed last night that Chabal would play a one-off game for Balmain - in