Super Rugby

There isn’t long until Super Rugby 2014 kicks off. It is exciting casting your eye over the different squads and exciting trying to pick the teams assuming everyone is fit (which doesn’t happen much these days).

Throughout 2013 Scott has brought Talking Rugby Union readers news, commentary and insights about Southern Hemisphere rugby.

RaboDirect Rebels' General Manager of Rugby Sam Cordingley will return to Brisbane after accepting a position at the Queensland Reds, a Club he played 43 Super Rugby matches for.

Australian Rugby Union have today announced that they will launch a new domestic competition in 2014, the National Rugby Championship.

The RaboDirect Rebels have signed lock Sam Jeffries on an Extended Playing Squad (EPS) contract to join the Club for the 2014 season, leaving just one place to be filled in the Club's 35-man playing roster.

After the naming of the 2014 Super Rugby squads last week, Talking Rugby Union wanted to review some of the decisions and, particularly, look at some of the players who were unlucky to miss out on contracts.

With the 2014 Super Rugby Squads beginning to take shape and not long until they are all fully announced, Talking Rugby Union wanted to focus on potential ‘big name’ signings around the league.

The Melbourne Rebels have announced that Mission Australia have become the Official Membership and Charity Partner for the 2014 season. Since the Rebels' inception, the two organisations have worked together actively integrating our community values, and as a match day charity of the Club.

Benji Marshall has signed to play Super Rugby in 2014 for the Blues, is this a good signing and which position should Marshall play?

The Super 15 Rugby competition is expected to become a Super 18 Rugby competition in 2016. This format see two conferences formed with the current Australia and New Zealand conferences combining with each team playing teams from their own conference both home and away and the other conference once.

Who was the best player in Super Rugby 2013? Ben Smith was my Super Rugby Player of 2013. He was a constant threat with ball in hand and on the counter-attack and was one of the only bright lights for the Highlanders in 2013. Am I being biased here as a Highlanders fan?

The Super Rugby Final is here finally after nearly 125 games over about 25 weeks we are down to two teams with the Chiefs hosting the Brumbies. If you picked either of these teams at the start of Super Rugby 2013 then well done! The odds of these teams winning were $7 for the Chiefs and $12 for the Brumbies.

Super Rugby 2013 is almost here and before you sign up for any tipping competitions based on picking the winning teams and margins, check out my analysis.

Super 15 Rugby 2012 has completed the Round Robin stage and I have done some analysis to help tipsters picking results in the future.

There has long been a debate surrounding which is the elite club rugby competition in the world - the Heineken Cup or the Super 15.

Super Rugby Round 11 is upon us and the cream is rising to the top with the Stormers, Crusaders and Chiefs looking the most likely teams to win the competition.

If you spend any time reading online rugby forums, there is a chance that at some point you will have seen a debate regarding whether the Northern Hemisphere season needs restructuring.

Things are looking up for the smallest franchise in the Super Rugby competition given that they were struggling as New Zealand's worst franchise in recent years...

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