Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Women’s season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nFehi Fineanganofo and Josh Moorby both created history, becoming the all-time record holders for most tries in a single season with 17.<\/p>\n
It was one-sided traffic throughout the 80 minutes as the Hurricanes ended a 10-year drought in style, with player of the match Ruben Love contributing 25 points in the rout, the most by a player in a decider.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the biggest ever win in a Super Rugby decider, besting the Bulls\u2019 61-17 win over the Chiefs in 2009.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs were handed a pre-match reprieve as captain Luke Jacobson passed a pre-game fitness test.<\/p>\n
But it ended there as the red-hot Hurricanes attack mastered the blustery conditions in a dominant first half.<\/p>\n
Moorby opened the scoring in the sixth minute, briefly tying the record for most tries in a Super Rugby season with his 16th.<\/p>\n
Flyhalf Love added to the scoring with a classy play eight minutes later, picking up the loose ball and stepping the covering defender for the try.<\/p>\n
With the Chiefs struggling to deal with the conditions, twice putting the restart dead, the Hurricanes continued to strike as Fineanganofo officially wrote his name in the record books.<\/p>\n
The winger crossed for his 17th of the season after backing up Callum Harkin, swan diving over to the delight of the crowd.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs had little answer, with their best chance coming in the 30th minute when they were held over the line.<\/p>\n
As the half wound down, the Hurricanes kicked further into gear, with a late Harkin try and a long-range Love penalty completing a near-perfect half, leading 29-0 at the break, the biggest ever in a Final.<\/p>\n
This lead only grew as Moorby joined Fineanganofo on top with his second of the night, sharing the record.<\/p>\n
Flanker Devan Flanders got in on the fun after running a great line off Love, returning from a layoff due to a concussion.<\/p>\n
Centre Jordie Barrett\u2019s try only added to the carnage, capping off his excellent night as Hnry Stadium was well into celebration mode.<\/p>\n
But the best try was still to come when number eight Peter Lakai broke clear, leading to a short side raid for Love to deliver some magic.<\/p>\n
The flyhalf somersaulted over the defender and somehow stayed in, bringing up 50 and his second for the night.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs saved themselves from a slice of history, with Naitoa Ah Kuoi\u2019s late try ensuring they didn\u2019t become the first team to be held scoreless in a decider.<\/p>\n
But it was all in vain as Jone Rova capped off an all-time performance with a last-minute try, capping off a special night in the New Zealand capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hurricanes have delivered arguably the greatest Grand Final performance in Super Rugby history, defeating the Chiefs 60-5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,5386,10569,85,48013],"class_list":["post-749399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chiefs","tag-hurricanes","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749399","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=749399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}