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The last time Lions fans could cheer about a Super Rugby win
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Right now the Super Rugby record book lists the competition winners as follows: Crusaders with seven titles, Blues and Bulls with three each, Chiefs and Brumbies with a pair and the Canes, Tahs, Highlanders and Reds with one.

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Except that’s not entirely accurate. That’s the record from 1996 on, when the professional Super 12 started. Super Rugby had actually been around, in one form or another, for a decade before then. The final of the 1993 Super Ten competition was at the same venue of this weekend’s final, and saw the Transvaal Lions defeat Auckland 20-17 to win the title.

Both sides were full of Springbok and All Black players, making it a true showdown between the best provincial sides in the world at the time. Can the 2017 Lions emulate their counterparts from all those years ago?

CREDIT: Real Rugby

 

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