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Herald on Sunday editorial: All Blacks' Apia game a benefit both ways

When Brazil saw its football team go to pieces before their eyes this week, there must have been many rugby fans in NZ thinking, could it happen to us?

Warren Alcock: Pride and passion driving force for Hobbs

While New Zealand fans were still recovering from the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Paul Thomas: Morally indignant dig deep to shame NZRU

Paul Thomas asks: Isn't it about time New Zealand rugby stopped believing its own PR and faced the ugly truth?

Rugby: Island players fear being left marooned

Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and the Cook Islands are on the hunt for players and are putting pressure on those eligible for the Island nations.

Chiefs fight not Toulouse Ben

Big Ben Tameifuna has a big decision to make — stay with the Chiefs or sign with Toulouse and most likely commit to playing for Tonga at next year’s World Cup.

Andrew Alderson: Thank you, but no thank you

The New Zealand Rugby Union's refusal to play tests in the Pacific Islands remains a shame on the national game.

All Blacks took sleeping pills during RWC

The NZRU has confirmed that All Blacks Cory Jane and Israel Dagg took sleeping pills while they were out drinking ahead of the Rugby World Cup quarter final.

Wynne Gray: NZRU poorer without Lomu's influence

Shameful chapters in New Zealand rugby have reduced but the NZRU's inability to unite with Jonah Lomu remains one of their neglectful episodes.

Rugby: Foreign aid or handing over secrets

South Africa appear to be the clear and present danger but there is a more basic threat nearer to home that has potential to bite New Zealand rugby harder.

Dana Johannsen: Stop making excuses for Savea

Editorial: Guildford case puts focus on addiction

For more than a year, New Zealanders have had a front-seat view of Zac Guildford's struggle with liquor. His misdemeanours were so outrageous and so public that they could not be swept under the carpet.

NZ rugby targets Auckland's Asian population

Rugby: Maori US tour may pave way for ABs

The Maori will head to the United States later this year on what could be the first of many tours New Zealand teams make to North America.

Guildford: I have to earn back trust

Zac Guildford says he has to earn back trust and respect after being reinstated to professional rugby by the NZRU this morning, after allegedly punching a partygoer.

Editorial: The time's come to sack Zac

No one wants to see the door shut on these youngsters - let alone be the one responsible for slamming it closed.

Union and AIG plan push for Silver Fern

Rugby boss Steve Tew says his organisation is looking at more opportunities to get leverage from the All Blacks brand this year.

The grass ceiling: Women under-represented as sport powerbrokers

Nearly 120 years since the electoral bill granting women franchise was passed, women still can't get a vote at the NZRU boardroom table

Tew shows other sports way it should be done

Dylan Cleaver concludes our countdown of the 25 biggest powerbrokers in New Zealand sport with the top five