Watch Sky Sport's The Breakdown: The big rugby issues of the week

New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) and Sky TV have joined forces to bring more of the country's best sporting content to even more Kiwis.

Sky Sport's hugely popular weekly rugby magazine show The Breakdown will be livestreamed tonight from 8.30pm on nzherald.co.nz.

On tonight's show, former All Blacks Jeff Wilson, Mils Muliaina and John Kirwan discuss the highly publicised departure of Blues ace Beauden Barrett to Japan.

Wallabies coach Dave Rennie calls in as Super Rugby Australia gets underway - amid new Covid-19 outbreaks in certain states and the panel open the floor for big debate on the health of the global game.