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    The Blues have sealed top spot heading into the Super Rugby Pacific playoffs... after edging the Brumbies 21-19 in Canberra

    The Blues have sealed top spot heading into the Super Rugby Pacific playoffs... after edging the Brumbies 21-19 in Canberra


    A Beauden Barrett drop goal ended their hosts' hopes after the fulltime siren.

    Blues coach Leon MacDonald felt it was an epic battle.



    The Black Ferns Sevens are yet to concede a point at the World Series in Toulouse.

    They're through to the Cup semifinals, where they'll face Fiji tonight.

    But the All Blacks Sevens have been knocked out of contention in pool play.

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     18 Feb: England coach Steve Borthwick's responded to their Six Nations rugby defeat to Scotland by making three changes to his run-on side for Sunday's match with Ireland at Dublin
     17 Feb: Irish rugby to investigate racial abuse towards Test debutant Edwin Edogbo
     17 Feb: A Dunedin man who sent a secretly-recorded sex tape to dozens of rugby mates, has failed to have his conviction quashed
     16 Feb: Blues coach Vern Cotter is applauding Super Rugby for their honesty, but is frustrated at what might have been after the Chiefs were wrongly awarded a try in round one
     16 Feb: Let's go to Livigno... and qualifying for the freeski big air
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