Australia's Super Rugby revival helping to prime Wallabies for Lions challenge | Angus Fontaine

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A flying start to the season featuring expansive rugby being played at breakneck speed has lifted spirits ahead of the Lions' arrival on Australian soil

Fatigue. Jeopardy. Fantasy. These are the buzzwords driving Super Rugby Pacific's remarkable surge in 2025, with faster games, tighter margins and nifty law changes boosting crowd attendances, TV ratings and greater success for Australian sides.

After five weeks of competition, Australia and New Zealand each have three teams in the top six, a remarkable level of parity given NSW finished with the wooden spoon in 2024, no Australian side has won the Super Rugby competition in over a decade and the trans-Tasman Bledisloe Cup hasn't left the All Blacks' stranglehold since 2002.