The Brumbies will play the Reds in the third round Super Rugby, and the Blues will take on the Hurricanes.
As cliche as it may seem, the penultimate game of Super Rugby Round at Melbourne’s AAMI Stadium truly was a tale of two halves. In the end, the Brumbies defeated the Blues by a score of 25-20 after a thrilling match.
A tit-for-tat match with each team appearing to answer to every point scored characterized the first 40 minutes. No points were scored and neither team had any significant scoring threats in the second half, which was a sharp contrast to the first.
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The men from the capital ultimately won the match and earned their second consecutive victory in the Super Rugby Pacific season. During the second round Super Rugby Pacific match between the Blues and the ACT Brumbies at AAMI Park, Andrew Muirhead and Ollie Sapsford celebrate a victory.
Well, it was brutal in the final 15-20 minutes, Noah Lolesio said to Rugby World Cup champion and Stan Sport analyst Sonny Bill Williams.
Super Rugby thriller between the Brumbies and Blues
Sometimes you just have to win badly, especially when playing a team like the Blues. I’m very proud of how well we persevered. The Blues are a good team, and I have no doubt that they’ll soar this year.
Lolseio gave coach Steven Larkham credit for his strategy of using players who were on the bench to finish strong and secure the victory.
For the time being, he simply wants experience to leave the bench for the final 30, 35 minutes, according to Lolesio. We must be careful not to overplay our hands while we are on, and I believe we accomplished that.
Naturally, we sometimes got a little too excited because we wanted to play, especially in that second half.
Because the Blues are a strong team, we really wanted to play territory in the second half of that game because, once again, if we overplay, we lose the ball over, and they have players like Rieko (Ioane) and Beauty (Beauden Barrett) who can really fire it up.
We entered the game with that strategy. The Brumbies scored three tries overall compared to the Blues’ two. While the Brumbies only converted nine of their 17 penalties, the Blues were probably too prone to errors.
The South Queensland Crushers haven’t been to the great stadium in the sky in just over 25 years.
Everyone knew it was over when Brisbane’s second rugby league team departed the field in the final game of the 1997 campaign. For the team that had entered the major leagues two years ago with so much potential and hope, oblivion had been a long time coming.
In 2023, the NRL has a second team in the Olympic City, with the Dolphins joining the league to try and succeed where South Queensland could not.
Yet the story of the Crushers is more than just a terrible expansion side that fails to live up to expectations. This story is about how the best-laid plans may go wrong, how fighting city hall can bring bad luck and terrible breaks, and how to plan for the future even when it seems like the world is ending.
This is the story of the South Queensland Crushers in a two-part ABC Sport production, told through the too many miles, the too few smiles, and the never-ending evidence that all that glitters isn’t Aztec gold.
The Broncos were around before the Crushers, and they created a large shadow from which the latter team could never really emerge. It’s improbable that another rugby league side in Australia will ever reach the Broncos’ 1993 levels of success.
After their first premiership in 1992 and stunning comeback victory from fifth place the following year, there were serious pieces written by real rugby league journalists debating whether they could seriously threaten St George’s illustrious run of 11 straight championships.