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First-half Hurricanes blitz blows Waratahs away

Hurricanes’ Beauden Barrett.

The Hurricanes ran in five first-half tries on their way to claiming a 38-28 Super Rugby victory over the Waratahs on Friday.

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Ngani Laumape, Beauden Barrett and Jordie Barrett all crossed inside the opening 12 minutes as the home side raced into a 21-0 lead in Wellington, before Ned Hanigan pulled a try back for the Waratahs with the elder Barrett in the sin bin.

Two more touchdowns courtesy of Wes Goosen and Mark Abbott sent the Hurricanes in with a 33-7 lead at the break, but the visitors refused to go down without a fight.

Bryce Hegarty and Jake Gordon crossed the whitewash early in the second period to close the gap, although Laumape’s second try afforded the Hurricanes more daylight.

Andrew Kellaway scored with 10 minutes left to play as the Waratahs’ comeback continued, but that was as far as it went, with the Hurricanes holding on despite having Beauden Barrett sent off two minutes from time.

The All Blacks fly-half saw red having been shown two yellow cards for deliberate infringements.

Victory lifts the defending champions to second in the New Zealand conference, while the Waratahs have one win from their last six matches.

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Bull Shark 5 hours ago
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To be fair, the only thing that drives engagement on this site is over the top critiques of Southern Hemisphere teams.


Or articles about people on podcasts criticizing southern hemisphere teams.


Articles regarding the Northern Hemisphere tend to be more positive than critical. I guess to also rile up kiwis and Saffers who seem to be the majority of followers in the comments section. There seems to be a whole department dedicated to Ireland’s world ranking news.


Despite being dialled into the Northern edition - I know sweet fokall about what’s going on in France.


And even less than fokall about what’s cutting in Japan - which has a fast growing, increasingly premium League competition emerging.


And let’s not talk about the pacific. Do they even play rugby Down there.


Oh and the Americas. I’ve read more articles about a young, stargazing Welshman’s foray into NFL than I have anything related to either the north and south continents of the Americas.


I will give credit that the women’s game is getting decent airtime. But for the rest and the above; it’s just pathetic coming from a World Rugby website.


Just consider the innovation emerging in Japan with the pedigree of coaches over there.


There’s so much good we could be reading.


Instead it’s unimaginative “critical for the sake of feigning controversial”. Which is lazy, because in order to pull that off all you need to be really good at is:


1. Being a doos;

2. Having an opinion.


No prior experience needed.


Which is not journalism. That’s like all or most of us in the comments section. People like Finn (who I believe is a RP contributor).


Anyway. Hopefully it will get better. The game is growing and the interest in the game is growing. Maybe it will attract more qualified journalists over time.

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