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Rugby Australia step in as Brumbies players and staff battle Mumps outbreak

The Brumbies in action during their Super Rugby quarter-final victory over the Sharks last year. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)

The Brumbies have suffered a mumps outbreak with a number of cases confirmed amongst players and staff ahead of their round four Super Rugby clash.

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The Brumbies’ hopes of upsetting Super Rugby frontrunners the Chiefs have taken a blow with the squad hit by an outbreak of mumps.

A number of cases have been confirmed within the Brumbies playing and team staff following testing this week, with Rugby Australia and SANZAAR stepping in.

After consultation with ACT Health, only players and staff who are completely well will be able to travel to Hamilton for their round four clash on Saturday.

Those players must be able to prove immunisation or if they have also suffered mumps, no longer have symptoms and have spent at least five days in isolation after the onset of the infection.

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The club has also urged families to also be immunised.

The Brumbies were forced into late team changes before their last round loss to the Highlanders, with Darcy Swain and Irae Simone withdrawn on the day of the game due to illness while other players reported feeling unwell.

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Initial testing was inconclusive before mumps were confirmed.

The Brumbies’ three opponents this season – the Reds, Rebels and Highlanders – have been contacted and no cases have been reported so far.

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Flankly 1 hour ago
'Absolute madness': Clive Woodward rips into Borthwick in wake of NZ loss

Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?

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