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Hurricanes lock Vaea Fifita's double tries in the second-half enabled the Wellington side to overcome a seven-point first-half deficit and secure a 37-27 win over the Blues during the Super Rugby clash on Saturday.

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Fly-half Richie Mo'unga kicked 16 points with the boot for the Crusaders as they recovered from a five-point half-time deficit to beat Blues by 21-26 at Eden Park in the Super Rugby round 14 clash on Saturday.

Western Force's second-half surge proved inadequate as Blues managed to secure a narrow four-point margin victory in the Super Rugby clash at NIB Stadium in Perth on Saturday.

A dominant Lions team romped home to a convincing 43-5 victory over Blues at the Emirates Airline Park on Saturday.

Late tries by Billy Guyton and Tevita Li helped Blues secure a 34-18 bonus-point win against Kings in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.

Amidst the success of the New Zealand franchises, the slump of the Australian franchises and the widely contrasting fortunes of the South African franchises, the emergence of two home nations players in Super Rugby this year has slipped largely under the radar.

A roundup of all the action from round 9 of the 2016 Super Rugby season.

We take a look at Round 8 of Super Rugby and round up the action from all the weekend's fixtures, with Israel Dagg's impressive game for the Crusaders.

The 2016 Super Rugby season may still be in its infancy, but already a number of players have started to make a big impression in the tournament.

Saturday's Super Rugby action saw wins for Melbourne Rebels, and the Crusaders whilst the Blues and Reds battled to a 25-25 draw.

The Highlanders got off to a losing start in the defence of their Super Rugby title as they went down 33-31 to the Blues.

Following on from our look at the two South African conferences last week, we now turn our attentions to Super Rugby’s Australasian conferences, starting with New Zealand.

Bath have moved to strengthen their back division options by signing former Leicester and London Irish player Dan Bowden.

Over the last few years, the Blues have gone from one of the most exciting and effective sides in Super Rugby to perennially sitting at the foot of the New Zealand conference.

New Zealand have made a great start to The Rugby Championship, seeing off the challenges of Argentina and South Africa, and now only Australia stand between them and lifting the southern hemisphere’s grandest prize.

The Springboks saw off the challenge of the World XV this weekend, beating the select side 46-10 at Newlands in Cape Town.

Former New Zealand captain Tana Umaga has been named as the new coach of struggling Super Rugby side the Blues.

As the 2015 Rugby World Cup draws ever closer Mike Stanton continues to look at some of the best young players that could feature at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. This week it is New Zealand and recently signed Ulster full-back, Charles Piutau.

Substitute Ihaia West kicked a late penalty at Eden Park to end the Blues' seven-match Super Rugby losing run with a 16-14 victory over the Brumbies.