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Story Credit : Logan Savory  https://www.stuff.co.nz/ As if Jason Rutledge’s folk hero status in Southland needed any more fuelling. Twenty years after making his Southland Stags debut the Invercargill plumber has yet again answered an SOS call. The 42-year-old front-rower has been named on the bench for Southland’s competition opener against Hawke’s Bay

https://youtu.be/xmWDv7NfDDs The Mitre 10 Cup has started with a bang as underdogs North Harbour push a stacked Canterbury side to the brink at North Harbour Stadium.

Current and former All Blacks will be littered across New Zealand’s 14 Provincial Unions when the most eagerly awaited Mitre 10 Cup season in recent memory kicks off tonight. Twenty-nine of the recently named All Blacks squad have been released to play the opening round of competition, with North Harbour hosting

Three All Blacks have been named in the Wellington Lions squad set to face Waikato at FMG Stadium on Saturday afternoon.Asafo Aumua, TJ Perenara and Ardie Savea are all included in the starting XV hoping to kick off this year’s Mitre 10 Cup campaign with a win.The Lions have only