<\/a><\/p>\nStretching the viewpoint back even further, over the last 10 years of Super Rugby in its various forms, the home win rate remains steady at around 60% with the Crusaders performing best with an 82% success rate in home matches in Christchurch.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes have an 80% win rate at their home stadiums, including Palmerston North where they beat the Melbourne Rebels on Friday. The Brumbies again are high on the list with a 72% win rate in Canberra.<\/p>\n
Teams with those rates of home success can be said to have made their home stadiums a fortress, a daunting challenge for visiting teams.<\/p>\n
One of the emerging fortresses in Super Rugby is Churchill Park in Lautoka at which the Fijian Drua have won twice this year and four times over the past two years. The stadium provides challenges to visiting teams because of extreme heat and humidity, often wet conditions and a raucous home crowd.<\/p>\n
The crowd has become an ace in the hole for the Drua, urging the team to greater effort. The Drua fans are colorful, loud, unquestioningly supportive but also fair and welcoming to visiting teams.<\/p>\n
On Saturday they watched as the Drua conceded the first tries of both halves, took leads of 26-10 in the first half and 33-17 in the second before the Waratahs with strong bench impact rallied to level the score at 36-36 at fulltime.<\/p>\n
Fans then endured almost nine minutes of golden point extra time before Kemu Valetini won the match for the Drua with a dropped goal which launched jubilant celebrations.<\/p>\n
The support is well-deserved \u2014 Drua head coach Mick Byrne lives in Lautoka, is deeply immersed in the local community and the Drua players put in a considerable amount of time in junior coaching and other community activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are the people\u2019s team and will continue to do as much as we can within the community,\u201d Byrne said. \u201cOur players are out there every week at schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to do that because we owe it to our people.\u201d<\/p>\n
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AP rugby: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/rugby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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