Otago v Tasman 32-13 North Harbour v Southland 19-17 Bay of Plenty v Wellington 13-16 Waikato v Northland 20-0 Manawatu v Hawke’s Bay 3-31 Canterbury v Auckland 15-26 Counties Manukau v Taranaki 21-45 8 Quarterfinalists Auckland Canterbury Wellington Hawke’s Bay Waikato Southland Otago Taranaki Fixtures and prediction Auckland V Taranaki Home win Canterbury V Otago [...]

What a cracking game as Auckland won the Ranfurly Shield thanks to their defence and pick up home games in the run in for the Air new Zealand Cup. We always think of Auckland as an attacking team, but it was the big hits and rattling of Stephen Brett and the Canterbury backs that helped [...]

The Rugby Football Union’s management board and Premier Rugby – which represents the 12 Premiership clubs are close to signing off a new eight-year agreement covering the professional game in England. The RFU Council ratified the deal on Wednesday and it now needs to be signed off by the clubs. The deal would come into [...]

Backs: Jonny Arr, Miles Benjamin, Lee Best, James Brown, Joe Carlisle, Loki Crichton, Thinus Delport, Shane Drahm, Greg Evans, Dominic Feaunati, Charlie Fellow, Marcel Garvey, Rico Gear, Alex Grove, Aisea Havili, Gareth Morgan, Uche Oduoza, Chris Pennell, Matt Powell, Dale Rasmussen, Nick Runciman, Gary Trueman, Mark Tucker, Sam Tuitupou. Forwards: Callum Black, Will Bowley, Tim [...]

Backs: Chris Bell, Mark Cueto, Ben Foden, Steve Hanley, Charlie Hodgson, Rhys Jones, Rudi Keil, Selorm Kuadey, Julien Laharrague, Rory Lamont, Sililo Martens, Chris Mayo, Luke McAlister, Oriol Ripol, Elvis Seveali’i, Lee Thomas, Andy Vilk, Richard Wigglesworth. Forwards: Nathan Bonner-Evans, Benoit Bourrust, Neil Briggs, Sebastien Bruno, Sebastien Chabal, Sean Cox, Christian Day, Ben Evans, Lionel [...]

Backs: Neil De Kock(C), Alan Dickens, Andy Farrell, Richard Haughton, Glen Jackson, Francisco Leonelli, Rodd Penney, Adam Powell, Kameli Ratuvou, Moses Rauluni, Gordon Ross, Brent Russell, Dan Scarborough, Kevin Sorrell, Edd Thrower. Forwards: Matias Aguero, Matt Cairns, Kris Chesney, Iain Fullarton, Paul Gustard, Guthrie Hall, Richard Hill, Chris Jack, Cencus Johnston, Andy Kyriacou, Nick Lloyd, [...]

Backs: Matt Burke, Hall Charlton, Lee Dickson, Tom Dillon, Toby Flood, James Girndal, James Hoyle, Steve Jones, Tom May, Mark Mayerhofler, Jamie Noon, Ollie Rudd, Joe Shaw, Mathew Tait, Tim Visser, Jonny Wilkinson. Forwards: Ross Beattie, Andy Buist, Phil Dowson(C), Eni Gesinde, Jon Golding, Carl hayman, Andy long, Joe McDonnell, Jason Oakes, Geoff Parling, Andy [...]

Backs: Simon Amor, Daniel Cipriani, David Doherty, Riki Flutey, Rob Hoadley, Josh Lewsey, Mark McMillan, Eoin Reddan, Paul Sakey, Mark Van Gisbergen, Tom Voyce, David Walder, Dominic Waldouck, Fraser Waters. Forwards: Nick Adams, Pat Barnard, Richard Birkett, James Buckland, Lawrence Dallaglio, Tom French, John Hart(C), James Haskell, Michael Holford, Raphel Ibanez, Daniel Leo, Tom Palmer, [...]

Backs: Delon Armitage, Tim Curran, Tomas De Vedia, Warren Fury, Shane Geraghty, Peter hewat, Eoghan Hickey, Paul Hodgson, Mark Ireland, Seilala Mapusua, Nils Mordt, Topsy Ojo, Bryan Rennie, Peter Richards, Dominic Shabbo, Keremy Staunton, Sailosi Tagickibau, Gonzalo Tiesi. Forwards: Steffon Armitage, Bob Casey(C), Danie Coetzee, Declan Danaher, Clarke Dermody, James Hudson, Gary Johnson, Nick Kennedy, [...]

Backs: Scott Bemand, Paul Burke, Matt Cromwell, Harry Ellis, Ayoola Erinle, Andy Goode, Dan Hipkiss, Ian Humphries, Aaron Mauger, Frank Murphy, Geordan Murphy, John Murphy, Seru Rabeni, Ollie Smith, Alesana Tuilagi, Tom Varndell, Sam Vesty, Ben Youngs, Tom Youngs. Forwards: Luke Abraham, Marcos Ayerza, Richard Blaze, Martin Castro-Giovanni, George Chuter, Martin Corry(C), Jordan Crane, Tom [...]