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Rugby: Brett's burden of great expectations
Like many rugby players around the country, Stephen Brett wondered why the Blues could not connect with their talent pool.
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Rugby: Honeymoon period over for the Blues
Pat Lam is looking more at ease than a year ago when the Blues staggered to a ninth place finish on his first watch.
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Super 14: Meet the competition's unlucky 13
There will be 13 franchises bemoaning their bad luck come the end of May.
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Rugby: Plenty of talk, now Blues must deliver
14,000 spectators have already paid to watch the Blues' opening Super 14 match against the Hurricanes at North Harbour Stadium tonight.
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Rugby: Williams says he's far from finished
Injured All Black Ali Williams has vowed to come back from his latest injury and is hopeful of playing in this year's Air NZ Cup.
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Rugby: Blues bring new grunt to old cause
Crunch time for debutant No 8 against Hurricanes tomorrow.
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Super 14: The contenders and pretenders
Never mind the drought, it’s rugby time again. The Super 14 kicks off this week with Michael Brown and Paul Lewis looking at all the franchises and their prospects.
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Rugby: Super start to 2010
After more than 1000 games of Super rugby, the same sides that began the professional rugby series in 1996 will duel at the start of this year's competition.
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Rugby: Williams out for the season
It took less than four minutes last night for Ali Williams' surgically repaired Achilles tendon to rupture again.
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Blues help keep youngsters up to mark
There seemed to be more laughing and joking going on than rugby as some deserving teens got to test their skills against their sporting idols.
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Rugby: Blues pip Hurricanes at the brewery
What had been looming as the highlight of the Wairarapa social calendar turned into a damp squib, quite literally.
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Rugby: Blues said no thanks to Spencer
Carlos Spencer made an approach to the Blues before signing for the Lions.
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Rugby: Super 14 - turning flagging fortunes around
Last season was not a great one for NZ teams, leaving five pertinent questions to be answered over the off-season.