Brumbies vs Sharks: Super Rugby live scores, blog

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17th March, 2018

Where: GIO Stadium
When: 19:45 local (08:45 GMT)
Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: William Houston (Australia), James Leckie (Australia)
TMO: Ian Smith (Australia)

Brumbies
15 Andrew Muirhead, 14 Henry Speight, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Christian Lealiifano, 11 Lausii Taliauli, 10 Wharenui Hawera, 9 Joe Powell, 8 Isi Naisarani, 7 Tom Cusack, 6 Lachlan McCaffrey, 5 Blake Enever, 4 Rory Arnold, 3 Allan Alaalatoa, 2 Folau Fainga’a, 1 Scott Sio.

Replacements: 16 Connal McInerney, 17 Nic Mayhew, 18 Leslie Leuluaialii-Makin, 19 Richie Arnold, 20 Lolo Fakaosilea, 21 Matt Lucas, 22 James Dargaville, 23 Tom Banks.

Sharks
15 Curwin Bosch, 14 Kobus van Wyk, 13 Lukhanyo Am, 12 Andre Esterhuizen, 11 Makazole Mapimpi, 10 Robert du Preez, 9 Louis Schreuder, 8 Tera Mtembu, 7 Jacques Vermeulen, 6 Wian Vosloo, 5 Stephan Lewis, 4 Ruan Botha (c), 3 Thomas du Toit, 2 Akker van der Merwe, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.

Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 Juan Schoeman, 18 John-Hubert Meyer, 19 Tyler Paul, 20 Jean-Luc du Preez, 21 Cameron Wright, 22 Marius Louw, 23 Lwazi Mvovo.

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Christian Lealiifano of the Brumbies looks on during the Super Rugby round 2 match between Sunwolves and Brumbies at the Prince Chichibu Memorial Ground on February 24, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matt Roberts/Getty Images for Sunwolves)

Tom English

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17th March, 2018

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Match result:

A return to Canberra has reignited the Brumbies’ Super Rugby season, scoring a 24-17 victory over the Sharks on Saturday night.

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Final score
Brumbies 24
Sharks 17

Match preview:

The Brumbies will be desperately hoping for a win to get their season back on track when they host the Sharks on Saturday night. Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of the match, starting from 7:45pm AEDT.

The Brumbies started off their 2018 season with a win over the Sunwolves but it was by no means a convincing one – a first-up road win on the board was a handy thing to have, all the same.

However their reign as the best team in Australia is on the brink of being well and truly over after their performances in the past two weeks have seen them fall to both the Reds and the Rebels, teams who found themselves near the bottom of the table last year.

Granted both of these teams have improved since 2018 but the Brumbies would still be very disappointed after regularly topping the Australian conference in recent years that they have had such a poor start to the season against their countrymen.

The Sharks haven’t had an ultra-convincing start to the year either and will be hoping that last week’s dominant win over the Sunwovles is the start of something good.

They opened their year with a tight loss to the Lions which was by no means a poor result, but then followed that up with a draw against the Waratahs at home, and would’ve been seriously disappointed not to get the win on the board in that match.

Last week’s encounter with the Sunwolves was pretty one-sided – a 50-22 victory in favour of the Sharks.

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