The Hurricanes continued their resurgence with their 4th win in a row as they put 4 or more tries past their opponents for the 2nd game in a row at home - this time against the Reds.
Indeed, just as they did the weekend before, the Canes were impressive, having to come from behind to reassert their superiority and romping home with a fairly comfortable and thrilling victory.
It was their backline that made the difference with the Japan-bound Andre Taylor sparked the Canes from the back and helped All Black winger, Cory Jane score a hat-trick. TJ Perenara, Alapati Leiua, Conrad Smith, Beauden Barrett and Julian Savea all played their part too against a very good Reds side that appears to be in the midst of transition.
The question is, can the mercurial Canes maintain this form for much of the rest of the season and be contenders at the business end of the season this time? Next week's game in Sydney against fellow contenders, the Waratahs will be key in determining that - much of the Canes' resurgence has been mainly in New Zealand so if the Canes are to show that they and not the Chiefs are the team from New Zealand to beat, they will need to beat a Tahs side that will be wounded after taking a beating from the apparently terrible Blues side.
It would be ironic then that after all the drama with coach Mark Hammett that the Canes are to end up being the real deal this season - on that note, watch out for his assistant, Alama Ieremia who is very much a Hurricanes man born and bred.
Anyway all the highlights from Super Rugby this weekend here - sorry no highlights of games from South Africa including the Highlanders game - couldn't find any!
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