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Rugby: Power and strength returning for Tuipulotu
Few have been greeting pre-season with more excitement than Blues lock Patrick Tuipulotu.
Few have been greeting pre-season with more excitement than Blues lock Patrick Tuipulotu.
There is genuine excitement at Blues HQ. There is laughter in the ranks.
It's nearly seven months after Tana Umaga was announced as new coach of the Blues and he is sitting in a cafe at Alexandra Park Raceway in Auckland's Greenlane.
New coach Tana Umaga has endorsed Ihaia West as the man to play the pivotal first five position for the Blues.
Former Auckland schools rugby star, Matt Duffie, an NRL player with the Melbourne Storm for seven years, will return to rugby after signing with the Blues.
New Blues coach Tana Umaga says Zac Guildford is on his radar.
Blues appoint All Blacks performance analyst as their new assistant coach, the first surprise of Tana Umaga's fledgling reign at the franchise.
Tana Umaga will be impressing upon his Counties Manukau Steelers this week the importance of treating rugby as an 80-, not 75-minute game.
In the second exclusive extract from his new autobiography, Jerome Kaino explains how he bounced back from his 2008 drink-driving conviction.
He's one of the toughest men to pull on an All Black jersey ... and he's humble, nice and has a smile like a sunbeam.
Tana Umaga faces a mammoth task in resuscitating the Blues, but Gregor Paul believes he can do it.
Tana Umaga says he must earn the respect of his players but Blues captain Jerome Kaino thinks the new coach has it already.
The sun shone brightly on Alexandra Park yesterday morning as Tana Umaga began his tenure as Blues head coach.
Tana Umaga, the new head coach at the Blues, says he would have worked with John Kirwan and was negotiating a contract on that basis before Kirwan suddenly quit last Friday.
Tana Umaga has been handed the job to try to resurrect the Blues.
He left a mess at the Blues for someone else to clean up but has the audacity to announce the franchise is heading in right direction, writes Chris Rattue.
Should Jerome Kaino get the all-clear in the next 10 days to resume playing, it might be a wise idea to stand back as there is a bit of pent-up frustration within him.
In today's short-attention-span, reality TV world, results are everything and it cannot be denied Kirwan did not bring them in.
The New Zealand under-20s, Blues, Tana Umaga and All Blacks, in a curious way, are all inter-connected.
Patrick McKendry writes: A new coach at the Blues, then, but will that bring about significant change?
Governance, recruitment, even the name must all be part of total effort to turn the team’s fortunes around.