The Crusaders romped to a season-opening 42-32 win over the Hurricanes as a new era of Super Rugby got underway over the weekend with the addition of two Pacific Island teams.
Only one of the new teams in the competition were able to get their season started, with the Fijian Drua going down 40-10 to the Waratahs in Sydney on Friday.
On the pitch, however, it was business as usual for the Crusaders, with winger Leicester Fainga'anuku scoring a hat-trick of tries under floodlights in a near-empty stadium for the ten-time champions. The Chiefs and Highlanders avoided the arduous road journey and played out an entertaining contest on Saturday afternoon in a picturesque Queenstown setting.
In Australia, the Fijian Drua performed a Na Bole' pre-match challenge but it was the Waratahs who came away with the win on the back of five tries to end a barren spell of 538 days without tasting victory.
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