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Super Rugby Home Team of The Decade

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Having released the Super Rugby away team of the decade, SANZAAR has now released the Home Super Rugby team of the decade.   With the help of OPTA stats the team has been selected...

Three Super Rugby XVs picked with one player from each franchise since 1996

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

For the last 25 years, Super Rugby has thrilled the rugby public and entertained many rugby spectators around the world.   We pay tribute to the Southern Hemisphere's premier competition...

New Zealand eye Super Rugby shake-up and are undertaking a complete review of the sustainability of the competition

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and the five NZ Super Rugby Clubs are undertaking a review of New Zealand’s Super Rugby model to ensure the future success for the clubs and competition on and off the field. The...

New Zealand Super Rugby Team of the Decade

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

SANZAAR have selected their Kiwi Super Rugby team of the last decade and what a team it is!   Seven of the last ten titles have been won New Zealand teams with the Crusaders leading the way...

Livewire Aaron Smith's All Black Debut

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Aaron Smith has been widely regarded as the world’s top scrumhalf for the better part of a decade. His career, which was seeded at the Blues but blossomed with the Highlanders, has gone from strength...

WATCH: A Classic Try Assist From Former Springbok Prop Os du Randt

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Former Springbok prop Os du Randt is well known for his stellar work in the scrum and his destructive ball carrier that saw him win two Rugby World Cups for South Africa 12 years a part from one another.   A...

QUIZ: Can you name the British and Irish Lions Line Up In the First Test vs New Zealand?

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Warren Gatland led a successful Bristish and Irish Lions Tour to New Zealand back in 2017 and in his first test starting 23 the New Zealander made a few surprising selections.   Ahead of the clash...

New Zealand Rugby confident cash reserves can ease crisis

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

With Super Rugby suspended and teams facing losses of revenue, New Zealand Rugby's chief executive is confident it can manage the crisis.  New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson is confident...

NZ Rugby to Reveal Super Rugby Backup Plan

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Following the competition's two-week suspension due to the Coronavirus, New Zealand Rugby CEO Mark Robinson has revealed that plans for a reshaped Super Rugby consisting of Kiwi derbies could...

Coronavirus: Super Rugby to be suspended following weekend action

6 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

The 2020 Super Rugby season will be suspended following the weekend's matches, SANZAAR has announced.     The rugby union competition was one of the few still going ahead across the globe...