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Brumbies closing in on Super Rugby record

Irae Simone. (Photo by Tony Feder/Getty Images)

The Brumbies have won nine consecutive Super Rugby games at home and are honing in on the club they record set 22 years ago.

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The Brumbies won 13 straight games in Canberra between the inaugural Super Rugby season in 1996 and 1998.

They’ll look to make it 10 home victories on the bounce when they host the Melbourne Rebels on Friday night.

“Not many people like travelling to Canberra,” Brumbies and Wallabies hooker Folau Faingaa said.

“It’s just a special place to play and we have to keep that winning mindset.”

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The Brumbies are Australia’s most successful team with two titles and they’ve been involved in the Super Rugby finals in six of the past seven seasons.

Focussing on Friday night’s opponents, the Brumbies have fallen to the Rebels in their last four encounters over 2018 and 2019, which includes two matches in Canberra.

The Brumbies looked much sharper in the first round of this year’s competition, however.

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The Brumbies hosted the Reds and clinched a narrow win while the Rebels were tripped up by the Sunwolves – a franchise with just three players in the squad from last season.

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Understandably, the Brumbies will be confident heading into the game.

Inside centre Irae Simone wants to make Canberra the most feared away trip in the competition.

“We’re trying to bring back the fortress,” Simone said.

“We’re trying to bring that feeling back for teams fearing coming to Canberra and so far we’re doing pretty well on the back of nine wins.”

– with AAP

Reds playmaker Isaac Lucas is confident his side can bounce back from their loss against the Brumbies to take down the Lions:

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Flankly 2 hours 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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