The Brumbies have held on to claim a gutsy 12-10 victory over the Hurricanes in Canberra, but only after All Blacks star Jordie Barrett missed two potentially game-winning penalty kicks in the final two minutes. Dan McKellar’s men became just the second Australian team to record a victory over New Zealand opposition in the Super […]
Mark Geenty05:00, Jun 05 2021
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First five-eighth Ruben Love is back pulling the strings for the Hurricanes against the Brumbies.
It can’t be the easiest, standing up in front of the Savea brothers, Dane Coles and Jordie Barrett to tell the Hurricanes how they’re going to topple the Brumbies in Canberra. Especially if your name’s Ruben Love, one month past his 20th birthday and handed the reins for his fifth start in the No 10 jersey, with the Canes needing to continue their bonus point roll on Saturday night to stay ahead of the pack in the Super Rugby Trans-Tasman final race.
It was the moment the Brumbies had to realise they have a problem. No matter how much work they’d been doing in the week leading up to the match with the Blues, trying to find the improvements they desperately needed to spark their trans-Tasman campaign, it had to have dawned on them that something bigger […]