
All Blacks happy with ‘hard’ title win
A relieved Ian Foster was satisfied on Sunday after his All Blacks side took “a very different journey” to retain their Rugby Championship crown.
A relieved Ian Foster was satisfied on Sunday after his All Blacks side took “a very different journey” to retain their Rugby Championship crown.
The Springboks fell short of winning the 2022 Rugby Championship but Jacques Nienaber was pleased to have developed depth at wing and flyhalf during the campaign.
Fijian Drua will stage six home matches and Moana Pasifika will play a first Super Rugby Pacific match on home soil, as organisers push for next year’s competition to make a bigger imprint in the Pacific Islands.
The Lions climbed out of an 11-point hole to upset Ospreys in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship match in Swansea on Saturday night.
The world champion Springboks missed out on winning the 2022 Rugby Championship despite beating Argentina by a comfortable margin in Durban on Saturday.
The DHL Stormers opened their Vodacom United Rugby Championship title defence in style with a comfortable bonus-point victory over 14-man Connacht in Stellenbosch on Saturday.
Morne Steyn’s late penalty was just enough to seal a narrow victory for the Vodacom Bulls over Edinburgh in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship match at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
The Springboks will have to get a big bonus-point victory over Argentina to win the Rugby Championship after New Zealand thrashed the Wallabies in Auckland on Saturday.
Ireland and British & Irish Lions centre Bundee Aki is primed to add firepower to Connacht’s cause when they take on defending champions the DHL Stormers in Stellenbosch on Saturday.
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