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An unfortunate training incident sidelined New Zealand Breakers forward Max Darling for weeks, left him with a metal plate in his face and searching for personalised protective gear to get back on court.

After copping a teammate’s elbow in his eye and fracturing his orbital, the 25-year-old Tall Black needed a mask he could wear for the remainder of the ANBL season.

Finding something fit for purpose – and his face – on short notice was not a straightforward task.

That is where MWDesign came to the rescue.

Founder Mike Williams and his team at the Hamilton and Tauranga-based design company were on their end of year break when the request from Breakers physio Rob Knight came through.

Knight had worked with MWDesign previously and knew that the company had the tools, including a laser scanner and a 3D printer, to create what Darling needed. Even though the company was more accustomed to doing work for a diverse range of projects, from playgrounds to geothermal measuring tools to retail items for mass manufacture that get shipped globally.

Williams called the mask a “fun project” that piqued his interest and he spent three days getting it right.

Before the mask, Williams had done two designs for hands for himself and a colleague who had broken digits.

“I broke my thumb a couple of years ago and the cast that got put on meant that I couldn’t use my mouse and I couldn’t do a lot of things. The doctors will probably hate me for this, but I chopped off the fibreglass cast, scanned my hand and made myself a nice little splint that was still supportive, but I could use the mouse and I could have a shower.

“That was as close as I got to mask building for basketballers.”

An injury-hit Breakers side needed Darling on the floor to help cover the minutes that starter Sam Menennga was playing before he suffered a season-ending wrist injury.

Darling is not the first ANBL player to get back on the court wearing a facial accessory after an orbital fracture.

Keanu Pinder wore a similar mask when playing for the Perth Wildcats in 2024 after a similar injury. In the same year in the NBA, Toronto Raptors swingman Scottie Barnes also wore a ‘Batman’ mask for a orbital fracture that did not require surgery.

Williams had seen examples of NBA masks that he said did not look “overly special” and that Darling’s was different and custom-designed from a glass-reinforced 3D print plastic.

After a description from Knight about the injury and the areas of Darling’s face that needed to be protected, Williams used a laser scanner to scan the player’s face.

“It did a really brilliant job of capturing all that detail on his face.

“It’s actually perfectly his face, I put it on and it was uncomfortable as hell for me because I have a different shaped face, but when he puts it on, it’s like nothing’s there.”

Williams spent time trying different thickness and how it was going to sit on Darling’s face “so it didn’t look silly”.

The harness behind the head was another consideration.

“You can imagine if he’s sprinting up and down the court, you don’t want this thing bobbling around on the face. We’ve got a little sweat headband part on the inside of it too. So, when he starts to sweat under heavy load in the game, it doesn’t run down in his eyes. So, there’s quite a lot of different considerations around the design of it but from the outside I suppose it looks pretty simple.

“It’s one of those complicated things that is really straightforward if you know how.

“I hope he keeps wearing it because he looks bad ass in it, it looks real cool, I like it.”

Williams said the company had not looked into doing much work for sports previously, but were now considering it.

“It’s not a big money spinner but at least to offer the service to get people out in the game and playing again that would be pretty cool.”

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• Super Rugby Pacific’s new law tweaks aim to speed up play and reduce stoppages.
• Players will be getting fewer reps in key test-match scenarios like fielding kicks and positional play.
• This could create a disconnect between the style players experience for most of the year and the repetition-driven demands of international rugby.

Analysis – Super Rugby Pacific is back next weekend and will look a bit different, thanks to some new law changes. Designed to reduce stoppages, inspire positive play and – most importantly, simplify the viewing experience, they have been pretty well received by a public keen to see a repeat of last year’s highly entertaining competition.

Probably the most far obvious will be the new sanction for joining a ruck after the referee has called ‘use it’, which should mean the ball is cleared quicker. Accidental offsides and teams delaying playing the ball away from a ruck are now free kicks, so in turn here’s more leeway around taking quick taps.

One that probably won’t be seen often but will certainly have an impact is it will no longer be mandatory for the referee to issue a yellow or red card to a player on the defending team when awarding a penalty try. There seems to be an awful lot of guesswork around this at the moment in open play, with players carded being more unlucky than anything else, but the real positive is that it won’t result in a mess at scrum time.

A dominant attacking scrum on an opponent’s line that results in a penalty try also meant that a defensive side’s prop would get binned, therefore needing to be replaced at the next scrum. That in turn meant that another player would have to go off to reduce their numbers, if this happened late in a game it would mean rolling players back on who have already been subbed.

So not bad at all from the officials who have put all this together in order to get some free flowing rugby going.

The only issue, and it’s not a new one, is that this is all for Super Rugby Pacific only. Once July rolls around, those changes don’t apply for test matches and the effects of that may well be playing a part in why the All Blacks have struggled in the last few seasons.

It’s not that the players can’t snap back into playing a tighter game plan, they are professionals and should be able to do that easily. Beauden Barrett and Damian McKenzie have both shown that they can run the ball out of their 22 from February to June, then kick it more often than not when they’re in a black jersey.

But the problem isn’t at their end. Speeding the game up and presumably reducing kicking means players coming through at the other won’t be exposed to as many repetitions as their foreign counterparts. The average back three player won’t have had to field anywhere near as many bombs, track across the field chasing kicks, or simply position themselves on field as an English or South African of the same age. Meanwhile props won’t have as many scrums, halfbacks won’t box kick as often, and so on.

It’s offset somewhat by the fact that by the business end of Super Rugby is played in colder conditions, with more on the line, so therefore the gameplans will adjust accordingly. One look at last year’s final can attest to that, but the fact still remains that Super Rugby Pacific is the tier below a test rugby landscape that’s moved far closer to repetitive scenarios decided by fine margins than off the cuff play.

Again, that’s not new. It’s just that those fine margins seem to be far more in the favour of who the All Blacks are playing.

One thing is for sure, with Super Rugby Pacific, though; they’ve stayed committed to reducing the role of the TMO in general play, with the man upstairs only allowed to intervene unprompted if the referee has overlooked an act of serious foul play or some other massively obvious error when a team scores a try.

Which is bound to be popular and hopefully catches on in test rugby, because while we should all be mindful of how difficult the officials’ jobs are these days, no one likes watching them talk to each other all that much.

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The All Blacks will open their 2027 Rugby World Cup campaign with a Pool A match against Chile in Perth on Saturday 2 October.

The All Blacks then take on hosts the Wallabies in Sydney the following Saturday, with their final pool game against Hong Kong China in Melbourne on Friday 15 October.

The All Blacks have never played Chile or Hong Kong China in a test.

In releasing the schedule, tournament organisers resisted the temptation to open the tournament with a clash between Bledisloe Cup rivals New Zealand and Australia, with the Wallabies kicking off the tournament against Hong Kong China in Perth on Friday 1 October.

The defending champion Springboks begin their World Cup against Italy in Adelaide on Sunday 3 October, before games against Georgia in Brisbane and Romania in Perth.

The Springboks, in Pool B, will be looking for an unprecedented third World Cup win in a row.

The draw also sets up a probable quarter-final between the All Blacks and Springboks.

Other major team match ups have Ireland and Scotland in Pool D, while England and Wales are both in Pool F.

The tournament will be the first in an expanded format, featuring six pools of four teams. The top two teams from each pool plus the four best third-placed teams will qualify for the knockout phase.

Australia will host the World Cup for the second time, after the 2003 edition in which the Wallabies went in as defending champions only to lose to England in the final.

To date, it is the only time a northern hemisphere side has won the World Cup.

The World Cup will take place in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Townsville and Newcastle. Sydney’s Stadium Australia will host the final.

All Blacks pool matches at 2027 Rugby World Cup:

All Blacks vs Chile – Perth – 2 October 2027 – 6:15pm NZT

All Blacks vs Australia – Sydney – 9 October 2027 – 7:10pm NZT

All Blacks vs Hong Kong China – 15 October 2027 – 7:15 NZT

Other match Match schedule highlights:

• 24 teams, 52 matches, 19 match days, 7 cities and 8 venues
• Opening match: Australia v Hong Kong China – 1 October, 2027, Perth Stadium
• Final: 13 November, Stadium Australia, Sydney
• Super Sunday (17 October): five matches played in a single day for the first time ever to deliver an exciting end to the pool phase: Italy v Georgia, Ireland v Uruguay, Scotland v Portugal, France v Samoa, South Africa v Romania.
• Knockout Drama: Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney will host the first-ever round of 16, followed by quarter-finals in Brisbane and Sydney, and then the semi-finals, bronze final, and the RWC Final at Stadium Australia on Saturday 13 November.

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It is no surprise that spin has been the feature of the Black Caps training sessions this week as they prepare for their opening game of the T20 World Cup.

Coming off a 4-1 loss to India in the recent T20 series, the New Zealand team moved to Navi Mumbai to continue their build-up for their World Cup clash with Afghanistan on Sunday.

Leg spinner Ish Sodhi was one of five slow bowling options in the New Zealand squad and he was likely to see action during the tournament.

The 33-year-old had played 137 T20 internationals since making his debut in 2014 and in this tournament he could become New Zealand’s most successful bowler in the format.

He sits on 162 scalps, just two behind Tim Southee.

Sodhi, who was the number one ranked T20 bowler in 2018, said they had taken a number of lessons from the recent India series.

“They (India) were amazing in their own home conditions,” Sodhi said.

“The wickets were really flat and the boundaries small and it might be a similar diet to what we have in this World Cup and so it was great for us to be exposed to those conditions.

“If we can maintain the intensity that we played that series in then hopefully it holds us in good stead for the tournament.”

Ten years ago Sodhi and fellow spinner Mitchell Santner made their T20 World Cup debuts in India. They both featured as two of the tournaments leading wicket-takers by taking ten each with Santner named in the tournament team.

With so much cricket played in India now, all the New Zealand players are familiar with conditions in the sub-continent and what to expect.

“At training today the boys wanted to face spinners and see what their boundary and single options were so it was really cool that everyone is training specifically for that.”

However, Sodhi said it was important that they remain adaptable.

New Zealand play the USA in a World Cup warmup game on Friday morning.

“They’re a niggly team with plenty of experience,” Sodhi said of the USA.

“Because they play in the MLC (Major League Cricket T20 competition) they’re exposed to some really high quality cricket.”

That game will again provide some valuable information on the local conditions ahead of their tournament opener against Afghanistan in Chennai on Sunday.

New Zealand and Afghanistan have only met each other twice in T20’s.

The Black Caps beat Afghanistan at the 2021 T20 World Cup, but were beaten by them at the 2024 tournament in the West Indies.

Afghanistan beat Scotland by 61 runs in a World Cup warmup game on Monday.

Black Caps T20 World Cup schedule

• 8 February: 6.30pm v Afghanistan, Chennai
• 10 February: 10.30pm v UAE, Chennai
• 15 February: 2.30am v South Africa, Ahmedabad
• 17 February: 6.30pm v Canada, Chennai

The top two teams from the four groups advance to the Super 8 stage where they will be placed into two groups of four teams each, and will play three matches against one another. The top two teams in each group will advance to the knockout (semi-final) stage.

The final was scheduled for March 9.

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The Black Sticks men have won their series against Japan after a 4-3 victory in the third and deciding game.

Japan had won the opening game 5-2, with New Zealand taking the second 5-1.

The deciding game in Hamilton wasn’t decided until late in the game with both sides showing plenty of intent to attack.

Sam Lane and Nic Woods both scored from penalty corners to give the home side a 2-1 lead at half time.

Japan then levelled just after the break before New Zealand scored one of the goals of the series as Dylan Thomas drove the ball into the circle which Sam Lane finished off at the back post.

The visitors were level again late in the third quarter, setting up a tense final 15 minutes with everything still to play for.

The game was decided by Kane Russell who showed his prowess at penalty corners by firing an unstoppable flick into the top of the goal in the 50th minute.

While the series is decided, the two teams will meet once more in an additional test match on Wednesday.

The Black Sticks men and women will both play in World Cups this year.

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Taranaki’s surfing community, -the only region in New Zealand to have previously hosted the globe’s elite surf competition, is stoked for its Raglan cousins who will hold a combined men’s and women’s World Surf League event in May.

The Women’s Championship Tours stopped at Fitzroy Beach in New Plymouth between 2010 and 2013 sparking a surge of interest in the sport – particularly women’s surfing.

Craig Williamson was event director for the Taranaki Surf Festival which included what was then the ASP Women’s Dream Tour.

Reflecting on the groundbreaking event ahead of the World Surf League coming to Raglan, the Surfing Taranaki chief executive said the idea was to give a local favourite a leg up.

“Paige Hareb had just qualified for the world tour, the first New Zealand female to ever do so. She was young at the time.

“So, that was a huge deal for surfing in New Zealand and in Taranaki and we thought that perhaps we could pull something together here and give her a home town advantage.”

Williamson said the festival – which was pulled off with the help of 60 community partners – had left a lasting impression.

“It was incredibly inspiring for young surfers all around the country. I bump into people who are young adults now a lot of them and they are still surfing and they talk about what an effect it had on them to actually see the world best here.”

He said the impact of the visiting athletes went beyond what they demonstrated in the surf.

“I remember vividly when we had Bethany Hamilton, the Hawaiian who’d lost her arm in a shark attack, speaking to like a whole classroom, a whole group of youngsters – mostly young girls.

“I’m sure they remember that and it had an impact on them, you know, in terms of what you can do in spite of obstacles that can be put in you’re way.”

Now based in Australia, Paige Hareb remembered the competition fondly.

“Yeah it was pretty cool. At the time I and probably didn’t realise how good I had it, but yeah looking back now it was definitely a special moment to be able to surf in front of friends and family in your home breaks and show it off to all the other girls and the rest of the world is pretty special.”

She said the New Zealand stop was popular with her fellow competitors.

“Everyone loved it. I know there was a lot of hype about it before they even went there and I think the worst part of it was that it was maybe too cold for them some days, but we got really good surf and everyone loved it the sea and the mountain I guess is pretty spectacular for anyone who doesn’t live there.,

She saw evidence of the Taranaki Surf Festival’s legacy every time she comes home.

“When I was growing up I was one of the only girls in the water and now I go home and there’s at least one other girl out every time I surf there, so yeah, there’s definitely a lot more females into surfing and out in the water which is cool to see.”

Hareb – who would compete for a wildcard into the Raglan competition – expected the Waikato settlement to be pumping during the 10-day event window.

Bruce Gatwood-Cook was media manager for the Taranaki Surf Festival.

A member of the New Plymouth Surfriders Club for about 20 years, he said the audience for WSL events was mammoth.

“It’d be in the millions of the reach we’d be getting because we provided packages to sports networks in Australia and America, Hawaii, South Africa to Europe.

“So, it would be impossible to quantify exactly how many people we reached, but we were reaching a global audience.”

He said WSL events were a marketer’s dream.

“At the same time as livestreaming footage of the heats and highlights of the heats, we also provided b-roll of mountain shots and scenics of the arena.

“So, typically as you see with sporting events like that they’ll have cutaways of the beach and local mountains and scenics like that of the country which really help destinations.”

As a surfer himself, Gatwood-Cook was also taken with the impact the surfers had with fans.

“We just had throngs of young girls idolising Paige Hareb let alone all the other superstars on the women’s circuit and it really created an aspiration for them that I could be that person and I could do that and also seeing how they surfed giving them inspiration to surf like that.”

Meanwhile, Izaro Williamson Sasia was a just a toddler when her dad ran the Taranaki Surf Festival.

Now a national under 18 and women’s longboard titleholder, she was stoked the world’s best surfers were returning to New Zealand.

“I don’t have any memories of it when it was here in Taranaki because I was only little, but I just can’t wait it would be such a cool experience to see it live and it’s been something I’ve always wanted to do, so I can’t wait. Like there’s no way I’m not going.”

The New Zealand Pro, which had attracted government major events funding, would run from the 15t-25 May at Manu Bay, Raglan.

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A former Olympic rower is hoping there is some honour among thieves after his gold medal was stolen from his Christchurch home while he was away for the weekend.

Les O’Connell won the medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, rowing in the men’s coxless four, and was appealing to whoever pinched it to give it back undamaged.

He said the medal was gold coated but was largely made of silver.

O’Connell’s home was robbed over the weekend, with thieves stealing a vehicle full of work tools, as well as entering the house and rifling through his belongings.

He was yet to return home after the robbery and did not yet know the extent of what had been stolen

However, he told Checkpoint that no loss was stinging harder than the medal.

“All those other items, that’s what they are, they’re just pure items that can be replaced, this can’t.”

“All of that pale’s comparison to the gold medal.”

O’Connell said the years of work he put in prior to getting the medal was part of what had made the loss hit even harder.

“It’s something I’m not going to win again and it’s a whole process. You know, I was a world champion for two years before the Olympics, so it was a whole build-up to winning a gold medal… it was hard fought.”

Despite having championship medals displayed in his home, it was only the Olympic medal that had been hidden that was stolen.

“I had those in frame, I had this one hidden purely because I didn’t want it hanging on the wall and I didn’t want it stolen. So we hid it behind some books on a bookcase.

“I’ve been told that all the drawers have been opened and that sort of thing. So, yeah, they’ve had a good look around.”

O’Connell said he doesn’t believe the thieves knew what they had found initially and is now worried they might think the medal is worth more than it actually is.

“As time goes on, they’ll probably look at them and think, well, you know, what do we do with this?

“What scares me the most is that they might go and do something stupid like try and melt it down or disfigure it or something like that, which really destroys the whole thing.

“I don’t know what the monetary value is, it never had a value, but it’s more of a collector’s item.”

O’Connell was holding out hope that the thieves would see some sense and return the medal back to its home.

“If they could put it somewhere and let someone know or phone into something and say, it’s here. Even if they just hide it somewhere and later on they let someone know… even post it back somewhere.

“I just don’t want it disfigured or thrown away and lost forever.”

New Zealand Police have been contacted for comment.

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The Glasgow Commonwealth Games is now on the radar for New Zealand running sensation Sam Ruthe.

The athletics world is coming to terms with the 16-year-old who on Sunday became the youngest athlete to ever run a mile quicker than 3 minutes and 50 seconds and in doing so eclipsed the New Zealand record by Sir John Walker.

Ruthe ran 3m 48.88s at the John Thomas Terrier Indoor Classic in Boston, while Walker set his record of 3m 49.08s in 1982 outdoors at Oslo.

“Absolutely,” said Ruthe’s father Ben Ruthe, when asked if competing at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in July was on the cards.

Ben Ruthe had the option of competing at the Commonwealth Games or the World Junior Championships this year and Ben said with his son still eligible to run the worlds again, the Commonwealth Games is a preference.

Ruthe’s grandmother Rosemary Wright won the Commonwealth Games 800m gold medal running for Scotland in Edinburgh in 1970.

“It would be really, really special,” Ben Ruthe said. “Sam would love to do that for his nan as well”.

The time Ruthe completed in Boston qualified him for the Commonwealth Games.

Coach Craig Kirkwood admitted they didn’t originally consider the Commonwealth Games at the start of the year because of the qualifying standards, but that had now changed.

“Yeh I think so, we’ll be revisiting our plan for the year in the next couple of weeks.”

Kirkwood said he was stunned with Ruthe’s run in Boston.

“Disbelief, just shocked at how fast he was moving and how good he looked doing it.

“It is very encouraging and I can’t wait to see what he does next.”

Ruthe’s was scheduled to race in a field that includes Olympic champion Cole Hocker of the United States in North Carolina in a fortnight.

Kirkwood doesn’t see an issue with the athletes Ruthe’s will come up against as the teenager doesn’t have any anxiety when preparing for races.

“He doesn’t get too excited about the events and doesn’t get nervous or worry about who he is lining up against.

“He’s always very calm and very measured, which is fantastic.”

Kirkwood was also delighted with how Ruthe’s tactically ran the race in Boston as it was his first ever indoor event.

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The Wellington Phoenix women are up to second in the A-League after an historic victory in Australia.

The Phoenix crushed the Jets 5-1 in Newcastle, recording their biggest ever road win.

It’s their maiden win in Newcastle and forward Pia Vlok, who bagged three goals, is the first Phoenix player to score a hat-trick in the A-League.

Midfielder Emma Pijnenburg and defender Ellie Walker also scored their first goals for the club.

“That’s a lot of firsts,” Phoenix head coach Bev Priestman said post-match.

“I challenge the group to be pioneers and go and do firsts for this club. We knew what tonight meant and I’m really happy and over the moon with the overall performance.

“We just keep building. You can start to see the consistency that’s starting to come to life in the team with the players that are now available.”

The result puts them two points behind league leaders Melbourne City.

From 12 games the Phoenix have won six, drawn three and lost three.

At 17 years and 150 days Vlok is also the second youngest player to score a hat-trick in the competition’s history.

“From the minute she walked through the door we’ve seen what you saw tonight every day in training, and I think that’s the difference,” Priestman said.

“She’s got a really bright future. We’ve got to protect her a little bit and make sure she’s fulfilling her potential, but she’s a top player and well-liked by the group.”

Priestman made one change to the XI which started last Sunday’s 3-1 win over Adelaide United, with Manaia Elliott replacing Lara Wall at left wingback.

The Phoenix play Perth in Wellington on Waitangi Day.

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The Black Ferns Sevens have taken the outright lead in the World Series after winning the Singapore tournament.

The All Blacks Sevens finished third in Singapore.

The Ferns were dominant in the tournament beating rivals Australia 36-7 in the final after scoring a 44-7 win over the USA in the semi-finals.

New Zealand and Australia had met in the previous two finals this season with New Zealand winning in Dubai and Australia winning in Cape Town.

Jazmin Felix-Hotham and Jorja Miller scored two tries each in the final with Mahina Paul and Katelyn Vahaakolo getting the other two.

Miller was named the player of the final.

“I’m so stoked and proud of the girls. It’s been an awesome atmosphere in a beautiful city,” Miller said

Captain Risi Pouri-Lane was proud of all her players.

“Every single one of the girls stepped up this weekend. I’m so proud of them and really stoked for the team. Defence is best part of the game but we’ve got another tournament in Perth next weekend. Things can change quickly, but we want to do it all over again.”

New Zealand lead the championships with 58 points, while Australia have 56.

In the men’s competition New Zealand was beaten 21-14 by Fiji in the semi-finals with Fiji going on to beat France 21-12 in the final.

The All Blacks Sevens beat South Africa 14-12 in the play-off for third.

Fiji top the men’s championship standings with 52 points, New Zealand is second with 48.

The next round is in Perth this week.

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