READER REPORT: What's in store for the 2016 Rugby Championships? NOEL BURLANDPhotosport Now the 2016 Super Rugby season is over, Noel Burland looks to the Rugby Championship. The 2016 Super Rugby Season is finished and now we look towards the Rugby Championship, with the newly branded provincial competition also beginning. The New Zealand sides played pretty well in the Super Rugby competition and while Super Rugby form doesn't necessarily translate to the international arena, if any nation can do it - it's New Zealand. Second: SpringboksThe Lions played exceptionally well to make the 2016 Super Rugby Final, before losing to the Hurricanes.

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