Crusaders Super Rugby Jersey
The Crusaders wear a red and black shirt for their home games with the emblem of the crusader brandishing his sword. The shirt has been donned by many of the cream in New Zealand rugby with perhaps the greatest in the modern era being Richie McCaw the awesome open side flanker who also skippered the All Blacks.
The Crusaders (originally known as the Canterbury Crusaders) are a New Zealand Rugby Union team based in Christchurch, New Zealand, and representing the Nelson Bays, Marlborough, Buller, West Coast, Canterbury, Mid Canterbury and South Canterbury unions.
The Crusaders play their home games at a temporary stadoum in Addington, the former Rugby League Park after their 36,500 stadium was destroyed in the 2011 Earthquake that struck the city. At the always packed new venue Crusaders on horseback parade round before kick off and the ramparts send up jets of fire whenever a score is made. In the year of the Eartquake the Cruasders could not play any games at home, even playing one fixture at Twickenham in England, they still though reach the final of the Super Rugby tournament in 2011, only to lose out to the Reds in Brisbane.
They compete in the Super 15 competition, which they won in its inaugural year having also won five of the 10 years in which it was known as the Super 12 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005). In 2002, the Crusaders had a perfect season, winning all 11 games in the main body of the tournament, and then their semi-final and the final.
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