Aisle be Back: The defeat

By Kevin McCarthy  The sun will still rise they said. Then it bucketed down for the next three days.  Those people with their predictions. Here we are, almost a week on, and it’s hard not to feel deflated that the Hurricanes won’t be hosting the big show this weekend. The feeling that

Hurricanes v Chiefs Stat Attack (semi-final)

Billy Proctor scores his try in the corner late in the match on Saturday against the Chiefs. The Hurricanes met the Chiefs in Wellington this past Saturday afternoon. Some facts and figures from that fixture by Peter Marriott below. Semifinal v Chiefs: Lost 19-30 The Hurricanes have now taken part in 12 Semifinal matches: 1997

Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Rebels (quarter-final)

By Kevin McCarthy The playoffs are here and inevitably people are intoning the mantra that defences win championships. Not surprisingly, as the definition of winning mathematically is that a team needs to score one more point than the opposition to win - discounting any weird tiebreakers . Any greater margin is