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Black Ferns named for O’Reilly Cup Test series

Ruahei Demant to lead the team alongside co-Captain Kennedy Simon Theresa Fitzpatrick and debutant Tyla Nathan-Wong to join squad fresh from Commonwealth Games. 19-Test Black Fern Victoria Subritzky-Nafatali and 2019 Black Fern Player of the Year Charmaine McMenamin return to the squad. As the Black Ferns continue to build to the Rugby World Cup 2021,

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Black Ferns name triallists

The best of women’s talent will get the chance to impress Black Ferns coaches this Friday with the Black Ferns Trial being played at Navigation Homes Stadium in Pukekohe (kick off 7.05pm). The trial brings together 46 of the country’s leading players to face off with an eye to cementing their spot in the Rugby

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Sevens stars set to shine over Matariki weekend

The world’s leading sevens teams descend on Pukukohe this weekend for the Oceania Sevens in their last international tournament before July’s Commonwealth Games. For All Blacks Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens players it will be a chance to test themselves against the best opposition from Fiji, Australia and Tonga, just days before the Commonwealth Games

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Is this the Group to retain the World Crown?

A New Black Ferns Squad The new Black Ferns management has announced its choice of 31 players to form the squad for the Pacific-Four Series (listed below). Its importance can hardly be exaggerated, pointing the way to the likely World Cup squad. Inevitably it reveals much about the state of women’s rugby in Aotearoa. The

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Allan Bunting joins the Black Ferns’ Management

Some Consequences Allan Bunting, the man many pundits saw as the likeliest candidate for the top job with the Black Ferns, has been added to the management team. He becomes Manager of Culture and Leadership, to join Wayne Smith, Director. This completely new and slightly strange sounding role covers two areas seen as in urgent

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NZ Rugby announce international home Test schedule

Pacific Four Series schedule confirmed with three Black Ferns Tests against Australia, Canada and USA All Blacks to play three Steinlager Series Tests against Ireland in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington The Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship schedule includes two Tests against Argentina in Christchurch and Hamilton Tran-Tasman rivalries kick off with the All Blacks Bledisloe Cup Test

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