Britain’s Prince Harry and \u200cwife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will take in the game at Sydney Football Stadium \u200cfrom a private box with Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh.<\/p>\n
Waugh may hope the royal visitors leave impressed \u200cby Max Jorgensen and other Wallabies<\/a> in the host team a year out from the \u200cWorld Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n But Tana Umaga-coached Moana will look to make a statement against a team they beat in their last three matches and defeated 33-24 on their last visit to the stadium in 2023.<\/p>\n “They’re big, powerful \u200cmen who have got the ability to be really dangerous off \u2060turnover ball and can go front door or \u200cthey can go the back door,” Waratahs<\/a> coach Dan McKellar said of Moana.<\/p>\n “We need to get our \u200bgame right, but make sure we front up and are ready for what’s going to be a really physical contest.”<\/p>\n Victory for the eighth-placed Waratahs would sustain their faint playoffs \u200bhopes while dealing an eighth loss in nine matches for bottom-placed Moana, who have struggled without inspirational captain Ardie Savea.<\/p>\n Savea is in Japan on a playing sabbatical this season, but there will \u2060be plenty of interest among New \u200bZealand<\/a>‘s five Super Rugby teams to sign the All Blacks enforcer for 2027 and beyond.<\/p>\n Savea’s former side Wellington Hurricanes<\/a> have done just fine without him, though, and sit top of the table ahead of Saturday’s blockbuster clash at the second-placed Waikato Chiefs<\/a> in Hamilton.<\/p>\n The Hurricanes have racked up 144 \u200cpoints in their last three wins over the Auckland Blues<\/a>, Queensland Reds<\/a> and Otago Highlanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Chiefs, beaten in the last three finals, have also been impressive, winning their last three, including a 62-17 demolition of Moana in Auckland.<\/p>\n The hosts will look to celebrate loose forward Luke Jacobson’s 100th match with a win in a contest that doubles as an All Blacks audition for rival outside centres Billy Proctor and Quinn Tupaea.<\/p>\n The third-placed Blues will look to rebound from a 42-19 thrashing by the Hurricanes when they host the seventh-placed Highlanders at Eden Park.<\/p>\n Blues’ veteran lock Patrick Tuipulotu makes a long-awaited season debut after recovering from a shoulder injury, joining fellow returning \u200cAll Blacks Hoskins Sotutu and Dalton Papali’i in Vern Cotter’s starting 15.<\/p>\n A point behind the Blues \u200bon the table, the fourth-placed Brumbies<\/a> are at home against ninth-placed Fijian Drua on \u200cSaturday before the defending champions, Canterbury Crusaders<\/a>, close out the round in Perth against Western Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sixth on the table, the Crusaders’ title defence is on shaky ground after they racked up a fourth loss for the season with a 31-26 defeat at the Reds last week.<\/p>\n With regular captain David Havili ruled out after a head-knock, lock Christian Lio-Willie will lead \u2060the Crusaders in a tricky match against \u2060a team who are better than their \u200c10th position suggests and stunned the Reds 42-19 two weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moana Pasifika will take the field on Friday with little more than pride on the line against a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-611938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Round](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0d4fccd0-511f-4fbe-8698-050ab87d1dc4.jpg\" "\\"Round")
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