The Chiefs thumped the reigning champion Crusaders to reach the Super Rugby Pacific final, having suffered heartbreak as runners-up the last three years.
Staff Writers
Western Force Women’s coach Dylan Parsons has declared it’s title or bust in 2026.
Aaron Kirby
Tom Robinson will lead a Junior Wallabies team that will for the first time include overseas talent in two hulking French-based props, and a local freak.
Murray Wenzel
After nearly 800 days in the wilderness, no one is more ready for Western Force to get their Super W campaign underway as Aiysha Wigley prepares to make a triumphant return.
Jake Santa Maria
Former Wallabies captain Liam Wright will play for Welsh club Ospreys, keen to reinvigorate his career after injuries derailed his stint with the Reds.
There was joy for ex-Wallabies coach Dave Rennie but heartbreak for his former charge Bernard Foley in the Japan Rugby League One decider in Tokyo.
The Brumbies have snapped a seven-match winless streak after Faitala Moleka scored an after-the-siren penalty in a thrilling win over Queensland.
Justin Chadwick
Australia's women rugby sevens team are two matches away from lifting the world championship crown in Bordeaux - but New Zealand stand ominously in their path.
Ian Chadband
Incoming Wallabies coach Les Kiss remains optimistic about the state of Australian rugby despite no teams making Super semis for the first time since 2017.
Melissa Woods
Queensland have fallen short in their bid to make history as the first Australian side to win a Super Rugby final in New Zealand, outplayed by the Chiefs.
The Crusaders have cemented a Super Rugby Pacific semi-final berth, with fullback Johnny McNicoll scoring three tries as they trounced the Blues.
The NSW Waratahs have made a winning start to their title defence with a six-tries-to-four win over Fijian Drua, but they let a bonus point slip through.
Back-rower Vaiolini Ekuasi has signed off on an outstanding Super Rugby Pacific season by taking out the Nathan Sharpe Medal on Friday night at the WACA Ground.
Glen Quartermain
A record total, set up by five first-half Hurricanes tries, has emphatically ended the Brumbies' Super Rugby season and extended a horror Australian record.
Former Chiefs stalwart Aidan Ross hopes to haunt his old club as the Reds bid to end their Super Rugby Pacific finals hoodoo.
Marco Monteverde
A former NRLW Indigenous All Stars playmaker, Japanese prop, Dutch flyhalf and Black Ferns scrum menace will debut in the Super Rugby Women's opening round.
Darby Lancaster was a revelation at the Western Force before being cut down by injury, but the one-cap Wallabies flyer is now set to join the Blues.
James Slipper is looking to weather the table-topping Hurricanes in Wellington, aiming to help rewrite the Super Rugby Pacific history books once again.
Sebastian Tan
Reds fullback Jock Campbell has found some extra pace and worked on another key area that would serve him well if recalled for his first Test in four years.
The Brumbies will have to buck history if they are to beat the Hurricanes in Wellington, but coach Stephen Larkham is treating it like a normal game.
Les Kiss is adamant his Reds have the tools and strategy to take down a Chiefs team brimming with All Blacks for their Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final.
Master pilferer Fraser McReight knows one area will be crucial if the Reds are to make Australian rugby history and improve their horror quarter-final record.
Wallabies star Jake Gordon is expected to be out for a lengthy period after undergoing surgery on a torn Achilles.
Tane Edmed hasn't enjoyed the playing minutes he expected after moving to the ACT Brumbies, but he isn't ruling himself out of Wallabies contention just yet.
