Super Rugby

Super Rugby 2012 is a great stage not only for existing stars like Sonny Bill Williams, Bismarck Du Plessis and Will Genia to strut the stuff, but it is always exciting to see the new talent coming through the ranks and New Zealand's cupboard of young scrum and fly halves look encouraging.

Super Rugby: Week 3 Review

Which young props in Australia excite you and could go on to dominate the test scene for the Wallabies?

Northern hemisphere rugby has come in for a bit of a bashing again this week. Nothing new there then! Hot on the heels of Graham Henry a few weeks ago declaring England "World champions of wasting talent" due to playing "a game based on fear", his All Black coaching colleague Wayne Smith threw in his two penneth and listed 19 Kiwi fly-halves who he felt would be able to challenge for an England place.

A late try from Hosea Gear helped the Highlanders win in Dunedin against the Crusaders on Saturday. At half time, they were winning 20-10 after tries from Andrew Hore and Phil Burleigh.

The 2012 Super Rugby season has quietly popped up without many people apart from the players and coaches really noticing it - but yes indeed it does start this weekend and for many rugby fans it's just as well given it comes at the end of one of the longer off-seasons in recent times.

Super Rugby referees will - literally - have an extra card up their sleeves in this year's tournament with the addition of the white card.

Leinster retained their Heineken Cup trophy in the summer whilst the Queensland Reds played spectacular rugby down under to take the Super Rugby title.

As the Rugby World Cup draws ever closer all of the home unions are trying to find ways to overcome the Southern Hemisphere superpowers who have dominated the tournament, with the exception of England in 2003 the World Cup has been won by South Africa, Australia or New Zealand.

Saturdays Super Rugby final brought the curtain down after five months and 125 games of fantastic action. Many players stood out and here are is my best 15 players from the 2011 season.

It will be a tense affair at the Loftus stadium this Saturday as both the sharks and the Bulls know that only a win will be good enough to keep them in the competition

We caught up with Springboks legend Corne Krige who was a pleasure to talk to.

A brilliant hat-trick from centre Tom Carter helped the Waratahs coast past the Highlanders in a rain soaked encounter in Sydney.

Daniel Carter scored 20 points to help the Crusaders beat the Chiefs to bring his Super Rugby total points to 1194 surpassing his 1188 test rugby points

Rugby Union is, as the old saying goes, a Thug's game played by Gentlemen. As such, it requires law and discipline to control the high tempo, aggressive nature of the game

So as we reach to the end of the Northern Hemisphere season what is happening down under

The Stormers have raced to the top of the Super 15 table with a 6-16 away win against the Sharks at Kings Park

ou couldn't have asked for a more superb showcase of southern hemisphere rugby than you got on Sunday at Twickenham