Super Rugby QF teams: Kiss makes Suli call, Lynagh starts, Cale returns, Frost benched

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Three Australian sides and four from New Zealand join Fijian Drua in the Super Rugby Pacific quarterfinals this weekend. See all the team news as it unfolds. (All times in AEST) Friday Chiefs vs Reds, 5.05pm Tom Lynagh returns to the Reds’ No.10 jersey as one of four changes from the team that scraped home […]

What time will State of Origin Game 1 actually start tonight?

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Game 1 of the 2024 State of Origin series between the Queensland Maroons and NSW Blues is scheduled to kick off at 8:05pm AEST in Sydney tonight. In recent years the actual kick-off has been reasonably close to the scheduled time. However, before that it was a long-running joke about how much the scheduled kick-off […]

Maguire motivated to bounce back as Blues say he is now a ‘different’ coach

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Michael Maguire enters his first State of Origin clash as NSW coach with a point to prove, history on his side and Queensland in his sights. Maguire will coach his first Origin game on Wednesday at Accor Stadium aiming to wrestle back the Maroons’ two-year grip on the shield under Billy Slater. The Queensland coach […]

Bribes, sympathy and tunnel ball: How the Super QFs stack up and what each team must do to win

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After an incredibly long and gruelling home and away season, the cream has risen to the top and the best two-thirds of the Super Rugby competition will be fighting it out in the cutthroat quarterfinals this weekend. They promise to be four cracking games, with opportunities aplenty for players to make heroes of themselves by […]

Dally M to Origin dud: Nicho Hynes faces the most challenging 80 minutes of his career

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Kalyn Ponga romped home in 2023 with a magical two months that engraved his name into the Dally M medal. While a few questioned his season-long quality over the consistency of Warriors legend Shaun Johnson, Ponga became anointed as the NRL’s best – having already conquered the cauldron of Origin. Yet for Nicho Hynes, tonight’s […]