All Blacks Beaten By England

The All Blacks have suffered their first defeat of their Northern Tour with a 33-19 loss to England on Sunday morning. The All Blacks had led 12-0 early in the match with tries to winger  Leicester Fainga'anuku and hooker Codie Taylor, but England fought back to narrow the score to 12-11 at halftime. The second half was all England as the pressure mounted against the All Blacks, with errors and the sin-binning of Codie Taylor contributing.

All Blacks: 19

Tries: Leicester Fainga'anuku, Codie Taylor, Will Jordan , Conversions: Beauden Barrett, Damian McKenzie

England: 33

Tries: Ollie Lawrence, Sam Underhill, Fraser Dingwall, Henry Pollock, Conversions: George Ford 2, Penalty: Ford, Drop Goals: Ford 2 

All Blacks Beat Scotland

The All Blacks have beaten Scotland 25-17 in a close match at Murrayfield on Sunday morning. Scotland made a comeback in the second half after being down 17-0, with the All Blacks losing three different players to the sin-bin during the match.

New Zealand: 25

Tries: Cam Roigard, Will Jordan, Damian McKenzie, Conversions: Beauden Barrett 2, Penalties: Barrett, McKenzie

Scotland: 17

Tries: Ewan Ashman, Kyle Steyn, Conversions: Finn Russell 2, Penalty: Russell

All Blacks XV Beat Barbarians

The Jamie Joseph coached All Blacks XV have beaten the Barbarians 33-19 in Brentford.

After being down 19-7 at halftime with their only try to Caleb Tangitau, it was all the All Blacks XV in the second half. Tries to halfbacks Xavier Roe and replacement Kyle Preston, second five David Havili and a second to Tangitau sealed the match 

All Blacks XV: 33 

Tries: Caleb Tangitau 2, Xavier Roe, Kyle Preston, David Havili, Conversions: Josh Jacomb 4 

Barbarians: 19

Tries:  Asenathi Ntlabakanye, Evan Roos, Bongi Mbonambi, Conversions: Robert du Preez 2 

All Blacks Defeat Ireland In Chicago

The All Blacks have beaten Ireland 26-13 in Chicago, with three second half tries finishing off a come from behind victory.

The All Blacks had lost captain Scott Barrett in the opening minutes with a cut to the leg, and found themselves down 10-0 in the first quarter, before Ardie Savea scored their first try leaving them 10-7 behind at half time. Jordie Barrett had also left the field with a knee injury in the first half, and both he and brother Scott are in doubt for the next match against Scotland.

The final quarter of the match saw the comeback when Ireland started to struggle, with the reserves bench providing tries via Tamaiti Williams and Wallace Sititi, with halfback Cam Roigard also scoring in the final minutes to seal the match.

All Blacks: 26

Tries: Ardie Savea, Tamaiti Williams, Wallace Sititi, Cam Roigard, Conversions: Beauden Barrett 3

Ireland: 13

Try: Tadgh Furling, Conversion: Jack Crowley, Penalties: Crowley 2 

All Blacks Named To Face Ireland In Chicago

All Blacks coach Scott Robertson has named the All Blacks side to face Ireland in Chicago on Sunday 2 November at 9.10am.

There are four changes to the side that last beat Australia in Perth, with prop Ethan de Groot returning from concussion in place of Tamaiti Williams who drops to the reserves.The other change in the forwards has lock Josh Lord coming into the reserves in place of Patrick Tuipulotu who is out injured. In the backs, Beauden Barrett returns from injury at first-five eighth, and left wing Caleb Clarke also returns from injury, with Leicester Fainga’anuku and Damian McKenzie dropping to the reserves. 

All Blacks:

Will Jordan, Leroy Carter, Quinn Tupaea, Jordie Barrett, Caleb Clarke, Beauden Barrett, Cam Roigard, Peter Lakai, Ardie Savea, Simon Parker, Fabian Holland, Scott Barrett (c), Fletcher Newell, Codie Taylor, Ethan de Groot. 

Reserves: 

Samisoni Taukei’aho, Tamaiti Williams, Pasilio Tosi, Josh Lord, Wallace Sititi, Cortez Ratima, Leicester Fainga’anuku, Damian McKenzie.

Canterbury Beat Otago For NPC Title

Canterbury has won the 2025 NPC title after beating Otago.

Canterbury: 36 

Tries: Dallas McLeod, Brodie McAllister, Manasa Mataele, Braydon Ennor, Louie Chapman, Gus Brown, Conversions: Chay Fihaki 3

Otago: 28 

Tries: Thomas Umaga-Jensen, Lucas Casey, Benjamin Lopas, Jona Nareki, Conversions: Cam Millar 3, Finn Hurley

Canterbury And Otago Teams Named For NPC Final

Both the Canterbury and Otago teams have been named for the NPC Final match at Apollo Projects Stadium in Christchurch at 4.05pm on Saturday 25th October.

Canterbury:

1. Finlay Brewis, 2. Brodie McAlister, 3. Seb Calder, 4. Liam Jack, 5. Jamie Hannah, 6. Zach Gallagher, 7. Tom Christie (c), 8. Dominic Gardiner, 9. Louie Chapman, 10. Andrew Knewstubb, 11. Ngatungane Punivai, 12. Dallas McLeod, 13. Braydon Ennor, 14. Manasa Mataele, 15. Chay Fihaki

Reserves:

 16. Nick Hyde, 17. Daniel Lienert-Brown, 18. Gus Brown, 19. Tahlor Cahill, 20. Torian Barnes, 21. Tyson Belworthly, 22. James White, 23. Jone Rova

Otago: 

1. Abraham Pole, 2. Nic Souchon, 3. Rohan Wingham, 4. Will Tucker, 5. Oliver Haig, 6. Will Stodart, 7. Lucas Casey, 8. Christian Lio-Willie, 9. Dylan Pledger, 10. Cameron Millar, 11. Jona Nareki, 12. Thomas Umaga-Jensen, 13. Josh Timu, 14. Jae Broomfield, 15. Sam Gilbert (c)

Reserves: 

16. Liam Coltman, 17. Benjamin Lopas, 18. Moana Takataka, 19. Joseva Tamani, 20. Harry Taylor, 21. Nathan Hastie, 22. Josh Whaanga, 23. Finn Hurley