Brumbies v Rebels: Super Rugby live scores, blog

u right, i was very impressed with McCabe/Kuridrani combo, hopefully they can continue to find their form, Tomane is a handful on the wing, Kuridrani could end our long misery at O/C

Keo has some nice articles, but yeah they seem to get the dumbest of the dumb on there. Some of them are just embarrassing. Try sport24, they are slightly better but lots of people causing, or rugby365 (normally more interesting comments and they are quite fair... mostly).

Justin, I haven't been a great fan of Mccabe at wallabies level either. But the sight of him repeatedly running over the top of JOC tonight should certainly make people rethink the idea that he is the long term 12 for the Wals. The Brums put out a frankly frightening team in size and aggression tonight, and completely took the Rebs' flashy stars out of the game. It's the same lesson the ABs have been teaching the Wallabies in recent years - If only Robbie Deans would pay attention!

I think the brumbies just found their best starting side. Pity Kuridrani went down at the end though that looked pretty bad and might be the season for him.

If any of you want a laugh I recommend visiting Keo the South Africans have lost the plot. The amount of abuse and tripe that goes on in that site is unbelievable. They're pretty upset over the Stormers loss not to mention the Rebels canning at the hands of the Brambles has only heightened calls for their 6th team and The Rebs being dropped. I thought i'd seen some rubbish and sore loser types on this site but it has nothing on Keo.

All those Mcabe knockers eat humble pie. JOC is not an I/C in the modern game. He is not up to handling the big centres like, SBW,Kahui and Nonu, Frans stein, Jdevlliers, Jamie roberts, he is a wing , or fullback or 5/8, or even half back i think he would be good. But he is not big enough or physical enough to be a world class I/C. Mcabe is the best defensive I/C inw old rugby. Give me Mcabe or A.Faianga any day at I/C over JOC . Boy though that Brumbies no 13 the O/C is the find of the year him and J Tomane. He i was reading about him today Fijian born Tevita Kuridrani just turned 21 2 weeks ago , 6'5 104kg what a find he will be for Australia over the next year. He is raw with more training and development he will be just the powerhouse outside centre Australia needs and has been looking for , for World cup England 2015. He has already played for Australia in 7evens so under IRB laws is now bound to play for Australia for life. A great talent , he has been compared to SBW and he is taller too. Like a young Radike Samo. Fiji's political problems means they are losing some of there top talent. Henry Speight also chose to stay with Australia and turned down an offer to play for Fiji at RWC 2011.

And also great crowd. Well done Canberra.

Ha. I'm here! There is a lot to like about that lot. Its not all doom and gloom for oz rugby as some predict. I saw plenty of talent out there, at least in the brumbies strip.

Kog- crowd was 14000 tonight. I think we,ll see well over 20k for the Tahs game in a couple of weeks. Brumbies looking very good. Injuries have been kind so far and if they come back from Africa with one win they have a big chance to win the conference. If they make the finals anything can happen. Rebels were ordinary.

One thing I noticed in the 2nd half was how often Kingi had to pass around, through or over a Brumby. They slowed the attack very well. Phipps is al ong way from last year and Kingi IMO deserves a start. Hill made a mistake of breaking up the locking pair and putting Jones at 6. Didnt work, Jones isnt quick enough for 6 on what I have seen. He is going to be a great tight lock like a Brad Thorn type, though maybe not quite as solid.

O'Connor had such an off night (as did most of the Reb's) that McCabe completely out played him. Gerrad, Phipps, Kingi, he'll the whole back line was average to crook. Saffy has a way to go to be a 7, he looks more comfy at 6, but I won't write him off yet after 1 game. What I really noticed was how much lower the Brumby's body height was at the breakdown. So many times they were in and under the Rebs.

I have been McCabes biggest critic but he has improved a fair amount this year. Running at holes rather than men, looking to pass (not natural but he is moving the ball) and even put in a clearing kick tonight. So hats off for clearly training hard to improve his skill set. God that hurt to write ;)

Yep, like they had never played with each other before. Just a woeful effort. Very disappointed with that across the board. Only guys to hold their head up were Jones and... wow not much else really. Delve, Gerrard tried hard. The front row is pathetic, no news there. Its the biggest problem they have. Their backline play is all behind the man league plays and easy to defend. That match threw up more questions than answers for me.

Thank God that is over,if I wasn't a Rebels fan I'd have been leaping for joy for the Brumbies. Deserved conference leaders, I hope they can take that form to South Africa. KOG's if you're out there, I was scathing of the Brum's after the first game, but they have really improved in skill and execution

This game just highlights how dire the Blues were last week. Who would have thought this rabble actually beat the Blues.