RNZ<\/a><\/p>\nA night when Ardie Savea inspired them to their most famous win, a year on and it was an uninspired Moana being beaten up by their big brothers as the Blues took a convincing 45-19 win.<\/p>\n
The one sided win, closes the chapter on a one sided rivalry, as the cross-city spat ends in solemn style.<\/p>\n
The Blues were ruthless, running in seven tries to further deflate the embattled franchise.<\/p>\n
Moana pulled one out of the Boks playbook for their first strike.<\/p>\n
Creating a faux lineout from a tap, hooker Millenium Sanerivi rumbled his way over from the ensuing breakdown to put his side on the board.<\/p>\n
The Blues replied through a patient build up and close range try for Marcel Renata, Sanerivi going back to back as he switched to the short-side and powered through three Blues tacklers.<\/p>\n
With oranges approaching, Kade Banks put the Blues ahead as he won a one on one with his opposite in the right hand corner, giving his team a 14-12 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n
The Blues sent a statement straight out of the sheds, skipper Patrick Tuipulotu powering in to kick off the second.<\/p>\n
When James Mullen muscled over soon after, the signs looked ominous for the hosts.<\/p>\n
Stephen Perofeta capped his quality night with the boot as he stole one from halfback, a little show and go to put the Blues into the thirties.<\/p>\n
Beauden Barrett came on for Perofeta and immediately got on the scoresheet, making amends for a poor pass to Banks as he backed up to take the infield pass and dot down.<\/p>\n
Chris Apoua got over for a late consolation, but Terrell Peita drove the final nail in shortly after to mercifully end the slaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scenes at Albany tonight stood in stark contrast to 2025. By Jonty Dine of RNZ A night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,3925,216832,760,85],"class_list":["post-647321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blues","tag-moana-pasifika","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647321","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=647321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}