Marc Hinton

Kiwi standout Sam Mennenga believes the best is still to come from a New Zealand Breakers side not just taking Australia's NBL by storm, but winning over an army of critics in the process.

It's been a roundabout journey, with a few wrong-turns along the way, but Scott Robertson finally seems to have settled on his best All Blacks back-three alignment to take through to the next World Cup.

When Petteri Koponen's New Zealand Breakers opened preparations for the 2024-25 Australian NBL by being thumped 120-76 by the Sydney Kings in a

At Aviva Stadium, Dublin: All Blacks 23 (Will Jordan try 69min; Damian McKenzie 6 pens), Ireland 13 (Josh van der Flier try 43min; Jack Crowley 2 pens, con). HT:

Marc Hinton At MyState Bank Arena, Hobart: Tasmania JackJumpers 83 (Jordan Crawford 19, Craig Sword 18, Majok Deng 18, Anthony Drmic 10), NZ

Marc Hinton As All Blacks coach Scott Robertson noted in the wake of his team's most significant performance of the season in Dublin, “we've learned quickly”. They've also improved with equal rapidity.

The All Blacks are 80 minutes from completing an unlikely clean-sweep of the northern hemisphere's top three sides in their own backyards, which

Marc Hinton Breakers coach Petteri Koponen is urging his previously high-flying players not to drop their heads after a dispiriting bottom v top NBL defeat to the Tasmania JackJumpers in Hobart on Saturday night.

The All Blacks will get the chance to take another glimpse at their loose forward future at Stade de France on Sunday (NZT). But will it involve

Just when we thought the All Blacks' No 10 conundrum had been finally solved, along comes deadly Damian McKenzie to reopen that can of worms ahead of what shapes as a defining test of the year against France in Paris.