Highlanders announce co-captains for 2025 season
1 week ago by Ultimate RugbyThe Highlanders have announced Timoci Tavatavanawai and Hugh Renton will serve as co-Captains for the 2025 DHL Super Rugby Pacific season. This leadership duo will guide the team as they look to build...
Highlander greats join Management Team
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbyFormer Highlanders’ co-captains Nasi Manu and Ben Smith have joined the 2023 Highlanders’ management team. Manu, who co-captained the team with Smith to a Super Rugby Championship in 2015,...
Nine debuts in Tonga's team to face the All Blacks
3 years ago by Ultimate RugbyTonga have included nine new caps in its starting XV to play the All Blacks in the first game of the Steinlager Series at Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday. Four of their substitutes could also...
Hawkes Bay score Try of the season contender with incredible handling and speed
4 years ago by Rugby DumpLast week, we featured a superb try from Otago in the Mitre 10 Cup, with Nasi Manu's sensational offload for Vilimoni Koroi being tipped as one of the tries of the season so far. The latest round may just...
Superb Nasi Manu offload sets up other-worldly try for Otago
4 years ago by Rugby DumpOtago's Villimoni Koroi and Nasi Manu combined brilliantly to score a superb try in their side's 23-16 victory over Canterbury in the Mitre 10 Cup last weekend.
All Blacks and returning stars to light up the opening round of the Mitre 10 Cup
4 years ago by Ultimate RugbyCurrent and former All Blacks will be littered across New Zealand’s 14 Provincial Unions when the most eagerly awaited Mitre 10 Cup season in recent memory kicks off today. Twenty-nine...
The All Blacks could face off against a combined Pacific XV - report
4 years ago by Ultimate RugbyA Tana Umaga-coached Pacific XV could be the New Zealand national side’s first challenge of the year, according to a report by 1 News. The clash could be the All Blacks’...
The Talented Group Of Stars From The U20s Class Of 2008
4 years ago by Ultimate RugbyIn 2008, Sixteen teams assembled in Wales for what was then dubbed as 'the inaugural IRB Junior World Championship 2008'. The competition replaced the U21 IRB Junior World Championship...
Should A Pacific Islanders Touring Side Be Reinstated and How Would They Line Up Today?
4 years ago by Ultimate RugbyIn 2003, a Pacific Islanders touring side was given the go-ahead by the IRB (now World Rugby) to compete. The concept that was based on the British and Irish Lions composite side, was put...
RWC Preview: France v Tonga
5 years ago by Ultimate RugbyFrance fly-half Romain Ntamack insists he and his team-mates have no interest in discussing one of the biggest humiliations in the national team's history ahead of Sunday's Rugby World Cup showdown against...
