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Watch: Crusades young halfback speeds to rapid Bronco time
By Henry Lee
Most teams are back in training ahead of the upcoming Super Rugby Pacific 2025 season, preparing for another long and gruelling season.
The Super Rugby Pacific season doesn't get underway until February, but January is always an interesting time to see who comes back the fittest, and the most ready to go for their new teams.
New Crusaders halfback recruit Kyle Preston who just had an exceptional season for the Wellington Lions in the Bunnings NPC, returned to training yesterday morning looking to break his Bronco fitness record of 4:16.
A Bronco fitness test is a sporting exercise that many teams use to assess their players' endurance and pace.
Players run shuttle lengths of 20m, 40m and 60m for five sets. The goal is to complete the test as quickly as possible.
Yesterday the Crusaders posted a video on Social media, of Preston’s 2025 new Bronco personal best, which is now 4:13.
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Preston’s time is the quickest time at the Crusaders and will be one of the fastest for all New Zealand Super Rugby teams.
Current All Blacks Beauden Barrett and Cameron Roigard have the best-known times of any current players, both having personal bests of 4:12.
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They bend the rules for pre-existing All Blacks, provided you've signed for a NZ franchise the following year.
Go to commentsUnder Rassie it is 5 wins for ABs, 1 draw, and 7 wins for the Boks. Of those games, only 3 were played in NZ, and 5 played in SA, and 5 on neutral ground.
Of the 3 played in NZ, the ABs only lost once. Of the games played in SA, SBs are 5-2, and on neutral ground its 3-2 to the Boks.
Seems pretty even to me, considering this is the greatest Boks team ever (I still think 2007 was better).
If Rassie wins, this will be the best Boks team ever, but the ABs aren't scared of a team who barely scrape wins against a reforming ABs team, and lost to an undercooked Irish side twice last year.
I predict a 7+ point win, leading by 13+ at halftime.
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