Blues Blitz Waratahs to Keep Playoff Hopes Alive

Blues blast Waratahs to storm into Super Rugby Pacific playoffs

Coach Vern Cotter’s Blues find themselves just in the playoffs, as the comfortable victory on Saturday afternoon pushed them up to sixth place. Photo supplied The Blues By Henry Lee, reporting from Eden Park, Auckland It was all to play for at Eden Park on Saturday afternoon, where the seventh-placed Blues battled the eighth-placed NSW Waratahs for a place in the Super Rugby Pacific top-six playoffs. The Blues needed to win, and the Hurricanes …

Super Rugby Pacific live updates: Blues v Waratahs

A Rieko Ioane hattrick and win mean put the Blues in the unusual position of cheering on the Hurricanes this evening.

Blues blitz Waratahs to keep playoff hopes alive

Blues 46 Waratahs 6 Don’t write off the Blues yet. Sure, it’s been a frustrating, at times bewildering, descent from last year’s breakthrough title. Sure,...

Kiss admits Kiwi sides just too super

Reds coach Les Kiss concedes that New Zealand teams have found their “mojo” going into the Super Rugby playoffs and it will be tough to break their title-winning dominance. Four New Zealand teams finished in the top six, who will contest the playoffs starting next week. The Hurricanes, Reds and the defending champion Blues recorded big wins to secure positions four, five and six respectively. The Canes crushed Moana Pasifika 64-12 to deny their …

Blues smash Waratahs to keep playoff hopes alive - Daily Telegraph NZ

The Blues thrashed the Waratahs 46-6 at Eden Park, keeping their Super Rugby Pacific playoff hopes alive with a dominant seven-try performance. Rieko Ioane scored a hat-trick, and returning winger Mark Tele’a added two more as the Blues played their most expansive and clinical rugby of the season. While they now await the outcome of the Hurricanes vs Moana Pasifika match to secure a finals berth, the Blues showed renewed cohesion, aggression, an…