Tuesday, March 29 2022
Award-winning young road builder and promising Napier Technical rugby player Hunter Donghi has died, just three months after finding out at the age of 20 that he had Stage 4 liver cancer.
Tuesday, March 29 2022
Chiefs lock Brodie Retallick has been ruled out for several weeks after suffering a broken thumb over the weekend.
Saturday, March 26 2022
Former Wallabies star Israel Folau is eying a return to international rugby with Tonga, three years after a legal battle over his contract with Rugby Australia following a homophobic post on social media.
Friday, March 25 2022
Now the Six Nations has wrapped up, some flaws with the recently introduced 50:22 kicks and goal-line dropout laws need to be addressed.
Friday, March 25 2022
Former Wallabies star Israel Folau is eying a return to international rugby with Tonga, three years after a legal battle over his contract with Rugby Australia following a homophobic post on social media.
Wednesday, March 23 2022
The backs get the credit on the scoresheet, but Chiefs Manawa have reinforced the old adage that defence wins championships.
Wednesday, March 23 2022
On the latest edition of the Rugby Direct podcast, Elliott Smith (Newstalk ZB's lead rugby commentator) and Liam Napier (New Zealand Herald chief sports writer) debate the latest topics from the rugby weekend.
Wednesday, March 23 2022
Former Wales and British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland has been installed as the bookies' favourite to be the next coach of England.
Monday, March 21 2022
Liana Mikaele-Tu'u is "living the dream" as one of the first rugby players to be given a full-time Black Ferns contract, and the results are already showing on the field.
Monday, March 21 2022
The Highlanders face a loss of up to $2 million this season.
Chief executive Roger Clark was not available for an interview earlier this week, but in an emailed response he outlined how dire the financial situation has become as the franchise copes with a third season disrupted by Covid-19.
Monday, March 21 2022
Chiefs 59
Moana Pasifika 12
Full-strength or not, the Chiefs are going to bring the pressure.
Friday, March 18 2022
New Zealand Rugby have worked through a major reshuffle of Super Rugby Pacific matches this weekend as Covid continues to run rampant through its teams.
Friday, March 18 2022
The Chiefs will be without a host of their top players for Saturday night's Super Rugby Pacific match against Moana Pasifika in Auckland, with many of their first-choice squad unavailable.
Friday, March 18 2022
In 2004, New Zealand downed a star-studded 19-time champion France side 34-11 to win the IRB Under-19 World Championship.
Tuesday, March 15 2022
France 13
Wales 9
Panache and patience, brutality and brilliance, savvy and strength. This is a special France team and it contains multitudes, and how they needed them. With fluency difficult on a tense Friday night against a ferociously defiant Wales effort, France needed to fight.
Tuesday, March 15 2022
After clocking the world of rugby sevens, Gayle Broughton has announced she is stepping away from the game.
Tuesday, March 15 2022
Chiefs 24
Crusaders 21
What a difference a week can make.
In Auckland last weekend, the Chiefs missed an opportunity to win against the Blues on the hooter. In Christchurch against the Crusaders on Saturday night, they didn't let history repeat.
Saturday, March 12 2022
Two Northland schools are the first in New Zealand piloting an educational sports programme this term in partnership with rugby clubs aimed at getting Kiwis more active.
Saturday, March 12 2022
The Blues are the latest New Zealand Super Rugby team to be hit by Covid-19.
The Herald understands one starting player tested positive on Thursday night, and that case numbers at the franchise have since grown.
Saturday, March 12 2022
Blues 32
Highlanders 20
In the complicated environment Covid-19 has created in Super Rugby Pacific, the Blues have proven they are up to the challenge.
Friday, March 11 2022
The behaviour of Highlanders players who ignored requests from cabin crew to wear masks on a flight home from Wellington has been labelled "unacceptable".
Friday, March 11 2022
A growing Covid-19 outbreak has forced a postponement of the Hurricanes' Super Rugby Pacific match against Moana Pasifika on Saturday.
Thursday, March 10 2022
2022 is set up to be a banner year for women's rugby in New Zealand.
Thursday, March 10 2022
The Hawke's Bay Magpies will open their 2022 defence of the Ranfurly Shield against national amateur rugby Heartland champion South Canterbury in Napier on June 29.
Thursday, March 10 2022
New Zealand Rugby has apologised after the All Blacks copped backlash for a "tone deaf" social media post on International Women's Day on Tuesday.
Thursday, March 10 2022
Highlanders coach Tony Brown has suggested health could play a vital role in ultimately deciding the Super Rugby Pacific season, noting the spread of Covid-19 in likely to play some sort of role in teams' campaigns.
Monday, March 07 2022
An All Blacks jersey signed by a wealth of rugby legends is being auctioned off to help raise funds to repatriate the body of former superstar Joeli Vidiri from the United States - and it's attracting some impressive bids.
Monday, March 07 2022
Two Western Force players have been stood down for reportedly drinking "one to two glasses of wine" on a flight from Melbourne to Perth.
Monday, March 07 2022
Moana Pasifika 12
Crusaders 33
A superficial reading of the Crusaders' clash with Moana Pasifika would reveal an expected bonus-point triumph for the competition front-runners.
But that would be leaving out an awful lot from tonight's Super Rugby Pacific game in Dunedin.
In one corner stood the five-time defending champions, a side coming off wins over the Hurricanes and Highlanders to open the new season.
Thursday, March 03 2022
Dalton Papalii is odds on to provide the Blues a timely lift after last week's deflating defeat by making his first appearance of the season.
Thursday, March 03 2022
Only a week after receiving a Life Member award, the man known as "Mr Kaitāia Rugby" who went above and beyond the call of duty over the years has passed away.
Thursday, March 03 2022
After a couple of false starts, Moana Pasifika's Super Rugby Pacific debut is right around the corner.
Tuesday, March 01 2022
Did the Hurricanes win it or did the Blues blow it?
Tuesday, March 01 2022
The Blues blew it, losing by one point to the Hurricanes, 33-32. They blotted their copybook by exploding in the last minute of play — just when they needed composure but more importantly, making first-up tackles to keep the Hurricanes pinned in their own half with time almost up.
|