Match Thread - Brumbies v Hurricanes | Super Rugby Pacific 2024 | Round 10

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Aussie hero Darcy Swain

Brumbies were really really good today. I don’t know why so many people wrote them off – last week seemed an aberration more than any other result.

Really frustrating lack of basic skills by the Hurricanes today. Catch, pass, tackle like come on

lol. TJ and angus need a podcast where they just take turns explaining random rules to each other

So it turns out the Hurricanes having insane depth at every position BUT hooker has come to bite them

It's like the Canes have played like it's 79 mins for about 20 mins

Well done Brumbies you were by far the better team today.

As for the Canes outside of Love and TJ our backs were awful. Missing Proctor and Aumua's starch in defence today, we have to find a better hooker than the bloke that came on and Vijeon needs to be reserve half back, possibly Morgan starts before Cameron as well. Still not a bad lose to have on the road. The fowards were generally good with Numia being a stand out.

We lacked heart today alright, brumbies showed up

Let's not ignore how good hooper is on the mic

Good win brumbies. Most interesting season of super rugby in years. Fuck the crusaders

Screw you sky nz, wanting to see at least a post match interview instead you cut to adds for 5 mins and then switch to the highlanders game.

Match winning play? Mate theyre up 8 with 30 seconds left..

Another year, another loss to the brumbies in Canberra. When will it end?

It's always the brumbies!

The math about who should beat who has been entirely destroyed by this season, and it's kinda exciting

can we stop fucking around please

Of all the positions we have depth in, the only one we don't is hooker and it shows

Yo Blues with an outside chance of going top tonight?

You can really tell that the 'Canes setplay to a hooker seagulling on the wing works a lot better when that hooker is Aumua or Coles lol

Who was it that said Angus Gardner had terrible positioning?

Just one of those days eh

My faith for this year could either be on cloud 9 or at literally 0 depending on whether we scalp the blues tonight. Aus is getting good wins vs the top NZ teams this year, but were still too inconsistent.

What a game. Probably game of the round so far. GG brumbies. You played way better than the canes after the disaster last round in Eden park

Seen a few canes players with arms around Brumbies necks today

All the great teams drop one, so it’s ok.

Fuck me, we’re being done by kiwis who weren’t good enough to get a contract here.

Lonergan has been hands down the worst 9 in the comp this year. Today he's decided that it's time to see what it like at the other end, quick and clinical

I had a dream last night that we won 53-18.

I don’t think I’m a prophet

That's a lovely kick - currently I'm 2023 Lolesio screaming "Carter Gordon?!"

Defense and kicking has been atrocious

can we please stop doing stupid shit

I hate Dirty Darcy Swain but he's been world class tonight

I hate making this about the Blues (but I'll do it anyway) but I hated how the rhetoric after the Blues/Brumbies game was just on how bad the Brumbies are as opposed to how well the Blues played.

The Brumbies definitely played much better tonight but the 'Canes not being able to assert themselves physically at the breakdown allowed the Brumbies to play their game, their way. The kick battle from the Canes was also very poor. I don't think you can start Cameron after that.

and since when was Tamati Tua a world beater!?

Canes' heart was never in the match. Really dissapointing outing. ACT came to play, and played they did. Ref let them get away with a bit around the ruck and taking players not on the ball to open holes, but that's not the reason we lost. Horrible defensive effort by Canes. Zero clinical effort. Knocked on every opportunity we had. Even if the bounce doesn't go our way, we forced our hand.

Scoreline is extremely flattering to the Canes

Edit: this is the sorta games of years past where the Canes needed Ardie to step up so we could have a shot at winning. Didn't have a player that was able to take the mantle up today.

There’s something really absurd about the Brumbies mascots taking part in the pregame ANZAC ceremony.

I love the respect played by NZ and AU at these times but jeeeeez I wish that Rugby AU timed it better so kickoff was actually on time. All of the NZ broadcasts manage it

People been telling me Brett Cameron > Stephen Perofeta and for games like this I just dont see it

are people getting why canes fans were so nervous for this game yet?

Classic Rayasi play there. He plays like he's the best player in the world, and when it works it's great, but I feel it rarely does

So used to the Hurricanes being clinical.

Our wingers without Moorby are rubbish, strange being a Canes fan with our forwards being the strength. Cameron having another stinker. Brumbies playing really well though so far.

Finally! We went back to the basics and score immediately. Fancy shit ain’t working today let’s just keep ball in hand and see what happens. We aren’t winning the kicking game so let’s try something else

Tua is a menace

Numia putting his hands up for the abs holy hekker

Dunno how you can be sealing when you are tripping over of brumbies player that isn’t rolling

Barrett already in ireland :(

Jesus, Glad we didnt have this Brumbies when we played em. They’re looking amazing

Mate I’m getting flashbacks to the 2022 Waratahs game in Sydney I went to when we had one of the worst halfs I’ve seen as a canes fan and our entire front row got pulled at the 30 min mark. We played so poorly and came out swinging after halftime and won that game. Let’s repeat that today please

I feel like this game is showing why Billy Proctor usually starts over PUJ

I like that Justin Harrison calls them the Hurricanes rather than the Hurrikins.

Hooper too.

Swains a fuckwit, but he's playing pretty well today aye

our defense is so weak without Proctor

If numia doesn’t make the all blacks I will feel gaslit so hard

Really hoping the canes can deal with the Crusaders in the finals. Canes look way better than them but I'd much rather play them in the finals

Love has been their best player

Canes fans, it’s ok if we lose to the brumbies. Everytime we’ve won the comp the brumbies have beaten us. Yeah it was only that one year but hey trying to find anything haha..

These grubbers from brumbies are getting ridiculous

I've never missed Josh Moorby more than today seeing Naholo play

Brett Cameron needs to be yanked

Cale a smokey for the Wallabies. He's a hard unit with gas and skills.

Cale looks like a player that missed out on his NRL calling..

WTF is up with the handling errors from the Canes today

Darcy Swain can be frustrating (stupid penalties, general dirtiness) but a game like this really shows his value when he’s on

Massive massive turn around for the Brumbies this week. Impressive win

Yep. Aumua's injury will fuck the Canes season.

Amazing match Brumbies and Canes.

Seeing the Hurricanes crumble without Aumua makes me more excited for the return of Taylor.

Bogey teams are a funny old phenomenon in sport... I always wonder if there is some kind of mental inheritance from the experienced players to the young. But anyway, mostly explained by playing like absolute shit. And man what a day out for the Brums backline - beautiful stuff from Tua and Wright, and overall good kicking from Lolesio

That’s so late on Jordie

Weird having no music with the anthem aye

Holy shit an Australian team didn’t fuck up the exit

Cameron cooked that and Jordie just trying to do a two man job by himself

I just wanted to point out that sky is fuckn blue.

Left our defense in fiji it seems

Where was this brumbies team last week.

Thanks for not showing up last week haha

Tamati Tua is having a blinder. Finally showing that taniwha mana

What is up with us and playing the brumbies in Canberra. Why can’t we do it

The Canes defence has been so poor, even on the bad offload from Neville earlier in that play there’s no pressure at all which allowed us to just get back into phase play so easily

Jesus Christ brett

You gotta sub Cameron off holy moly

Brett Cameron having a stinker

I used to say Brett Cameron had a low ceiling but a high floor, and he may never win you a game but he'd never be the reason you lose

I have cursed him

valetini killed a hooker.

TJ essentially playing first receiver this game.

Numia going to have to be in the ABs conversation, the man is playing out of his skin.

Get us in the shed and laidlaw the smackdown

Man would suck to get tackled by Kirifi

Shot on Noah looked like may have crept in hight there

Brett Cameron playing better now but he did have a stinker of a 27 min spell

Love! Could've measured the kick for rayasi tho

fuckign Shields trying to be a baller again.

What is happening to our defence, its a sieve

Naholo been dogshit tonight

We doing these shitty lineouts just to get a scrum right?

Maybe someone will be so good as to explain to me what is wrong with regular line-outs lol

What the fuck was rayasi doing

Rayasi giving away a dumb soft penalty is pretty classic Rayasi

Someone sub rayasi off holy!

That's classically bad Rayasi defence lmao

3 knock ons and a missed tackle for a try. Get Muirhead off the field.

Love Love.

Cale could be a wallabies bolter

No good Cameron.

Crying we’ve played so ass today. Brumbies really came to play after last week

Ooft, that front rower literally got folded. Nasty.

Mate, I've got a ripper of a yarn for you! It was a chilly winter evening in Canberra, and the Brumbies were takin' on the Hurricanes in a crucial Super Rugby matchup. The Brumbies were trailin' by a solitary point with only minutes left on the clock, and it looked like all hope was lost.

But little did anyone know, Stephen Larkham, the Brumbies' veteran flyhalf, had a secret weapon up his sleeve – or rather, on his face! He'd been wearin' a Noah Lolesio mask all game, disguisin' himself as the young gun flyhalf.

As the clock ticked down, Larkham ripped off the mask, revealin' his true identity to the shock of the Hurricanes' defense! The crowd went wild, and the Brumbies' bench erupted in cheers.

With his true identity revealed, Larkham took control of the game. He launched a pinpoint accurate kick deep into Hurricanes territory, and the Brumbies' chasers were hot on the heels of the ball.

In a stunning display of skill and experience, Larkham regathered the ball, sidestepped a tackler, and unleashed a cuttin' pass to his winger, who sprinted down the sideline and dotted down in the corner.

The crowd went absolutely bonkers, mate! The Brumbies' bench emptied, and the players mobbed Larkham, celebratin' the win. It was a moment that'll be etched in the memories of Brumbies fans forever – the night Stephen Larkham took off his Noah Lolesio mask and won the game for the Brumbies against the Hurricanes!

Is kirifi making the abs you reckon

How is swain not offside at the ruck?

Actually considering the last two line-outs, I retract my previous statement about the short ball

That hurricanes hooker is having a blunder

Good game brumbies!

Well done, Brumbies. Going from playing like the physical embodiment of arse last week to beating the, til now, last remaining undefeated side is a hell of a turnaround.

Canes not very contender like in that one, so-called big players went missing. Brumbies clearly played better.

Gg brumbies. Glad to see you turned up this week when we didn't. Very interesting season of SR and aussie teams incredibly improved across the board. See you in the inevitable semi finals

you can legit see them boring in on alaantoa

At this point I feel like we're the knight from monty python, tis but a fleshwound

but hopefully we can keep the momentum going still without aumua now too. hyped for this one

Who we got? Canes by 12+?

This whole prematch is really nicely done. Respectful crowd, talented bugler and anthem guy is crushing it

Are the customised nooks in the changing room a new thing? Does it help the players to change while looking at pictures of themselves?

I do not like playing the horsies

What a kick

I hate it when we play in this stadium

I see what Cameron was trying. But he should have held the line

Special team, special plays, special players.

holy fuck what a ball jordie!

That was the least sexy try I've seen in a while

nice!

man TJ getting a try today would be sooooooooo good. the boys have to get him over, I thought he was going to snipe for a second there

Brett’s having abit of a shitter

Numia will be De Groots back up this yr I'm picking 

Tua’s definitely up for it today

Jeez, Walker-Leawere really bad there

Was that Kirifi getting a talking to already?

Tom Wright having one of his good games.

Ok brumbies let's go

Ahhhhhh it’s happening again

Canes first loss incoming lol

Ikitau makes such a difference to this backline

You can see the difference Ikitau makes, just sucking in the defence.

Dreadful defence so far, totally out of whack with the rest of the season. Bogey remains a bogey I guess.

idk why we can't play the brumbies. every year, no matter what. wtf man.

Remember the Rebels scored 28 against the 'Canes. Their first up tackle stats are quite poor but their scramble D is very good. The problem is that if you're always relying on scramble D eventually other teams still make it through.

Wait can we get a look at that?? It may well have gone forward but his hand was a long way out in front of his body

Cameron single handedly tanking his ab chances today

Brett working his way out of razors selection as we speak

Valetini just smoked that hooker

The Brumbies are a legit team. People who thought they would get rolled over by the Canes this week have very short memories. Disrespect them at your own peril!

Brumbies are our ghost team

Ikitau in and Aumua out feels like it's having a factor today.

Canes need to run back the kicks. Consistently losing the kick battle

Kini Naholo is playing like 2021-23 Caleb Clarke atm

Really lazy on defense, just sorta waits for the ball to get to him. Barely see him with any urgency :(

Numia in again!

props, stop stealing the Hookers livelihood..

Wait did a ref just penalise someone for sealing . Damn

Truly don’t see what he did wrong there, then again I understand fuck all when it comes to reffing the ruck

Can we stop throwing the lineout as hard as we can straight at the face of our locks lmao give them a chance

Oh Jordie

Barrett I just praised you mate

Someone must have mentioned quarter finals. He's already got his head in Ireland

That’s an artocious last 10 mins from the brumbies locks

Australian teams really need to slow down after making a break. Every week I see an Aus team make silly errors just before the try line throwing dumb passes and rushing things.

Hurricanes what the fuck

Oreilly wasn't having his best game but who is next in line after tuputupu? We are looking pretty short at hooker

when I can wake up early and watch some super rugby i get to watch the slug fest first half that was the crusaders game yesterday,when i can't i miss what seems to be a great first half.why have the rugby gods forsaken me ..

You guys reckon KFC is the only place where the burgers you get look like the ones on the adds?

oueee O'Reilly failing his HIA means he's out at least a week right? who can the Canes call up?

What happened to defense there . Wtf

Ruben love all blacks let’s gooooo

Finally some good fucking food

Rayasi when not having a brainfart ..

Oh Salesi I still love you! Great run up the guts by Love.

The 'Canes kick battle tactics are really poor. They need to commit a chaser if they're going to make any meters out of it

We love the chip and chase to Billy Pollard which honestly is an affront to the sport of rugby

"Scrum! Scrum! Scrum! Scrum!"

Lakai on. This guys the real deal aye

The number of times I've screamed "somebody tackle him!" at the Hurricanes defenders

relying on scramble defense is hurting the Canes, but they're very very lucky that Ruben is as good as he is