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  •   Home > News > Sports >  Subscribe to NZCity's Rugby articles  Rugby
    Hurricanes head coach Clark Laidlaw is eager to palm off the workload to returning assistant Jason Holland
     11 December 2025
    Hurricanes head coach Clark Laidlaw is eager to palm off the workload to returning assistant Jason Holland
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    The Crusaders and Super Rugby's all-time top try-scorer will head to France at the end of 2026
    11 Dec: The Crusaders and Super Rugby's all-time top try-scorer will head to France at the end of 2026... more
    Sevu Reece's All Blacks career looks over, after signing with French club Perpignan on a three-year deal
    11 Dec: Sevu Reece's All Blacks career looks over, after signing with French club Perpignan on a three-year deal... more
    Belief regional New Zealand deserves test rugby
    10 Dec: Belief regional New Zealand deserves test rugby... more
    New Zealand Rugby are open to early kickoff times and other initiatives to get fans through the gate
    9 Dec: New Zealand Rugby are open to early kickoff times and other initiatives to get fans through the gate... more
    New Zealand Rugby are happy to acknowledge their reasons for giving Eden Park half of the All Blacks' home tests in 2026
    9 Dec: New Zealand Rugby are happy to acknowledge their reasons for giving Eden Park half of the All Blacks' home tests in 2026... more
    Dunedin appears to have missed out on an All Blacks test for the first time in five years
    9 Dec: Dunedin appears to have missed out on an All Blacks test for the first time in five years... more
    The father of Tauranga teen running sensation Sam Ruthe has paid tribute to the long-term record-holder his son has consigned to history
    8 Dec: The father of Tauranga teen running sensation Sam Ruthe has paid tribute to the long-term record-holder his son has consigned to history... more
    Kiwi running prodigy Sam Ruthe has comfortably won the national schools 1500 metres title in Hastings
    7 Dec: Kiwi running prodigy Sam Ruthe has comfortably won the national schools 1500 metres title in Hastings... more
    The Black Ferns Sevens are moving on quickly from a perfect start in Cape Town as they eye another finals run
    7 Dec: The Black Ferns Sevens are moving on quickly from a perfect start in Cape Town as they eye another finals run... more

     Most Popular Recent Rugby News
     17 Dec: An Otago University student and rising rugby talent is recovering after a near-fatal fall from a Dunedin rooftop in September ++++++++++++++++++++
     14 Dec: The Tauranga Whai have defended their Tauihi national women's basketball league title with a resounding 93-66 win over the Mainland Pouakai in the final in Christchurch +++++++++++++
     09 Dec: New Zealand Rugby are open to early kickoff times and other initiatives to get fans through the gate ++++++++++
     03 Dec: Striving to compete with a specialist American medley training squad is the reason behind two-time Olympian Lewis Clareburt making the move to Australia +++++++++
     03 Dec: Izayah Le'afa unknowingly played through a stress fractured foot in the Tall Blacks basketball World Cup qualifier loss to Australia in Wellington +++++++++
     09 Dec: New Zealand Rugby are happy to acknowledge their reasons for giving Eden Park half of the All Blacks' home tests in 2026 +++++++++
     07 Dec: The Black Ferns Sevens are moving on quickly from a perfect start in Cape Town as they eye another finals run +++++++++

     Rugby NewsLinks
      30 Dec: ‘love doesn’t end’: former all black announces baby news in bittersweet post (Stuff.co.nz)
      30 Dec: Five rookie signings who could take super rugby by storm (Stuff.co.nz)
      29 Dec: Less may be more as zac lomax prepares to chase a dream, not money (Sydney Morning Herald)
      29 Dec: How the hurricanes pulled off the 'biggest' signing of the super rugby season (Stuff.co.nz)
      27 Dec: Blues recruit rugby's wannabe helicopter pilot — and it’s not richie mccaw (Stuff.co.nz)
      25 Dec: Nz rugby’s teams in black have big problems. what happens next? (Stuff.co.nz)
      24 Dec: Can rugby star's stolen caps be found after 40 years? (BBCWorld)
      23 Dec: ‘unconvincing explanations’: hundreds of rugby brain injury claims in jeopardy (Stuff.co.nz)
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