Super Rugby

Rugby Australia is hailing the Super Rugby AU season a success and is still working to lock in the competition structure for 2022 with an expanded trans-Tasman format most likely. Ahead of the grand final between Queensland Reds and the Brumbies in Brisbane on Saturday night,

The Brumbies say their opponents on Saturday night have been adopted as the darlings of the competition. Nobody expects the Brumbies to win. History suggests they shouldn't either. "To come out here and win a final away from home in front of a sold-out crowd,

Dan McKellar has had a handful of ACT Brumbies players and staff around for dinner before. But never enough to warrant 240 chops on a barbecue. Well, until now. This is how the Brumbies launched their Super Rugby AU finals campaign.

The success of Super Rugby AU has given Rugby Australia chief executive Andy Marinos "something to ponder" as Saturday's grand final hurtles towards a potential sellout at Suncorp Stadium. Ticket sales are flying for the clash between the Reds and Brumbies,

Saturday night's Harvey Norman Super Rugby AU Final will be live on Channel Nine in Queensland, New South Wales and ACT. The Queensland Reds and

Andrew Mehrtens has expressed his surprise at the "provocative" and "aggressive" Brumbies mind games ahead of Saturday's Brumbies coach Dan McKellar this week moved swiftly to claim underdog status for the big dance,

The Queensland Reds are seeking revenge while across the Tasman, the Canterbury Crusaders will look to extend their dominance when Australia and New Zealand's domestic Super Rugby competitions play their finals this weekend.

Rugby Australia chief executive Andy Marinos says the success of Super Rugby AU has given his board something to ponder in terms of competition structures for next season, admitting a fully united trans-Tasman competition is not yet a guarantee.

Looking at the numbers from the Super Rugby AU season just gone, there's almost nothing to split the Reds and Brumbies heading into Saturday's final.

Super Rugby teams and officials will be nervously monitoring the latest COVID-19 developments after New Zealand paused its quarantine-free travel bubble with New South Wales on Thursday. Flights from NSW will be suspended for 48 hours from midnight following the detection of two mysterious community cases in Sydney.