Todd Blackadder let's Jules get his hands on the Super 14 and NPC trophies!

As some of you may know our Chief Rugbyhead Jules has been going through a rough time in the last few months, having been diagnosed with Leukemia in early November. He is currently nearing the end of treatment though, with a transplant due to happen on Saturday that hopefully will provide the cure.

As a special treat his sister Hannah organised a visit from Toddy and some of the girls from the CRFU.

As well as sorting him out with a bunch of Crusaders stuff (caps, posters, a scarf) they had a really good chat about all sorts of things including showing him Rugbyheads! Toddy thought it was a hoot, especially your's truely.

He invited Jules and his boys down to the training ground to visit the team, an offer that I'm sure will get taken up once Jules is out of hospital and on the road to recovery.

Cheers Toddy! You are a legend!

As always it seems too early to be talking rugby, but I'm sure we will all warm to the task!

The 2009 rugby season is in full swing, with two rounds of the 6 Nations and Round 1 of the Super 14 in the books. Check out the Scores and points tables below for the full details.

Scanning the results I would have to say that there haven't been too many surprises, no doubt the Hurricanes fans will see their lose to the Tahs as a huge upset but really it was a close result and the Tahs are no push overs, not really a surprise scoreline to me.

The only game I actually saw was the helter-skelter fumble-fest in Christchurch between the Chiefs and the Champs. For all the mistakes and turnovers in this match it was still very entertaining and the Chiefs really could have stolen it at any stage but as they have done so often in the past with the game on the line with 10 minutes to go the Crusaders cranked up the pressure, played field position and came away with the win. Fantastic. While I'm not too confident that these boys can repeat again you definitely can't write them off, which is all you can ask for as a fan. Lovely....