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Blues, Super Rugby and Beauden Barrett

Rugby-Beauden back with the Blues for Super Rugby title defence

Beauden Barrett played his first Super Rugby match way back in 2011 but the 33-year-old believes he's got a couple of years left in him yet as he embarks on another new season with the Auckland Blues this weekend.

ESPN · 14h

Super Rugby Pacific: Can anyone challenge 'Stern Vern's' route-one Blues?

Vern Cotter flipped the typical Blues script and brought the franchise a title for the first time in 21 years. Can anyone challenge the defending champions in 2025?

AFP on MSN · 1d

Barrett-bolstered Blues eye back-to-back Super Rugby titles

Super Rugby champions Auckland Blues, strengthened by the return of Beauden Barrett, have high hopes of back-to-back titles as the club competition returns this week, but are wary of Australian sides bolstered by the collapse of the Melbourne Rebels.

Reuters · 21h

Super Rugby Pacific 2024: Team by Team

Team-by-team preview of the new season of Super Rugby Pacific, which kicks off on Friday. (Listed in order of last season's finish on regular season standings):

INEOS, New Zealand Rugby

The New York Times · 1d

New Zealand Rugby launches legal action against Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s INEOS over alleged sponsorship breach

The petrochemical company, which owns a minority stake in Manchester United, allegedly cut short a long-term sponsorship deal.

Reuters on MSN · 1d

Rugby-INEOS says in talks with New Zealand Rugby over sponsorship dispute

Chemical producer INEOS has said it is in discussions with New Zealand Rugby (NZR) following the sport federation's decision to pursue legal action over a sponsorship dispute. NZR said on Tuesday that INEOS had breached their contract and failed to pay a sponsorship fee,

BBC · 1d

New Zealand Rugby begins legal action against Ineos

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) says it has launched legal action against Ineos for alleged breach of contract, saying the British petrochemicals company has walked away three years early from its sponsorship deal.

Warren Gatland exit marks Wales Rugby nadir

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Gatland out as Wales rugby coach midway through the Six Nations with team on record losing run

Warren Gatland has left his role as Wales rugby coach midway through the Six Nations with his team on a national-record losing streak of 14 matches.

Reuters on MSN · 1d

Rugby-Gatland leaves Wales job, Sherratt appointed for final Six Nations matches

Warren Gatland's second tenure as Wales coach ended on Tuesday by mutual agreement after a record-extending 14th successive loss with a Six Nations defeat by Italy. Cardiff Rugby head coach Matt Sherratt has been appointed to take the reins for the remaining three Six Nations matches,

ESPN · 1d

Tom Hamilton: Warren Gatland exit marks Wales Rugby nadir

Warren Gatland's departure from Wales was inevitable after their defeat in Rome on Saturday. It was their 14th straight loss, and saw them fall beneath Georgia in the world rankings.

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Lions tour looms over Super Rugby as the tournament itself faces scrutiny

The Super Rugby Pacific opener will raise the curtain on a Southern Hemisphere season in which the British and Irish Lions ...

20hon MSN

Rugby-Revived Australians target New Zealand's Super Rugby stranglehold

The 30th season of Super Rugby gets underway this weekend with just 11 teams playing in another new format but hopes that the ...

2don MSN

Rugby ready to 'do damage' in league after cup run

Rugby Borough forward Ang Nixon hopes they can carry their Women's FA Cup form into their remaining league games after ...

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‘The greatest story in football’: How Aussie Jordan Mailata turned his rugby dreams into Super Bowl reality

Jordan Mailata watched the Super Bowl for the first time. The then-17-year-old only cared about one thing: The halftime show.

Horror moment rugby player, 28, leaps to his death tombstoning off 60ft cliff in front of traumatised crowd

THIS is the shocking moment a rugby player plunged to his death after tombstoning off a 60-foot cliff. Horrified tourists watched as the 28-year-old Argentinian sportsman, Santiago Bourdieu, ...

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Watch Premiership Women’s Rugby matches on BBC Sport this season

Ahead of the Women’s Rugby World Cup audiences can watch more Premiership Women’s Rugby as BBC Sport secures a deal to broadcast four matches, including the PWR final on 16 March, live on BBC iPlayer ...

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