Blues players the Ioane brothers have been named to start for the Māori All Blacks this Saturday when they play Fiji in Suva. Rieko and Akira Ioane will be joined by Hayden Triggs in the starting fifteen, while Jamison Gibson-Park will be a reserve for the team’s season opener. The Māori All Blacks team features […]

The Blues have renewed the partnership with one of our oldest and most loyal supporters, Barfoot & Thompson.  The award-winning Auckland real-estate company has signed on to support the Blues for a further two years. Not only does this cement their status as our longest-serving sponsor, but shows just how committed Barfoot & Thompson are […]

60 secondary school rugby players gathered at Mount Albert Grammar School last week for five days of personal development, training and position-specific coaching with the Blues High Performance team.  The players came from all over our region for the 2015 Blues Under-18 Development Squad Camp, arriving to get a taste of professional rugby training and […]

In the last two weeks, we’ve seen 14 Blues men selected for representative teams.  Four Blues players were named in the line up for the Maori All Blacks against Fiji, five Blues were selected to play for the Barbarians, and another five were named in the All Blacks squad for the recent historic tussle against […]

Five Blues players have been included in the All Blacks team for their historic test against Samoa in Apia this week.

Leading college players selected for Blues Under-18 Development Camp

This week’s Blues News features some exciting events coming up for Under-18s as well as the departure of one of the Blues’ icons

Four Blues players have been included in the Maori All Blacks named to play Fiji and New Zealand Barbarians in July.

Current Counties Manukau coach and former All Black captain, Tana Umaga will be the new head coach for the Blues.

Young Blues players helped New Zealand reclaim the World Rugby Under-20 championship for the first time in four years when beating England with a 21-16 win in Italy on Sunday (NZT). Scoring two tries to one, New Zealand were 10-11 down at half-time, but came out and in a powerful five minutes after the break […]

Five Blues players have been selected for the All Blacks team for the Samoa Test, Investec Rugby Championship and extra Bledisloe Cup Test as announced today. Blues Hooker Keven Mealamu, Props Charlie Faumuina and Tony Woodcock, Loose Forward Jerome Kaino and Outside Back Charles Piutau will continue their All Black careers beyond the 2015 Super […]

Blues rugby legend Sir John Kirwan has resigned his role as head coach of the organisation. Kirwan, who has been head coach for three years, has today announced that he will not seek reappointment for a further term as coach and will step aside, effective immediately. While Kirwan had put up a proposal to the […]