{"id":496153,"date":"2026-02-22T05:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496153\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:27:24","slug":"super-rugby-crusaders-crushed-by-brumbies-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496153\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Rugby: Crusaders crushed by Brumbies in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JSSYXH_260222CrusadersBrumbies_0679_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Leicester  Fainga'anuku of the Crusaders in the tackle of Charlie Cale of the Brumbies and Rob Valetini of the Brumbies during the Super Rugby Pacific match - Crusaders Vs Brumbies at the Apollo Projects Stadium, New Zealand, 22nd February 2026. Copyright photo: John Davidson \/ www.photosport.nz\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nLeicester Fainga&#8217;anuku of the Crusaders is tackled by Charlie Cale and Rob Valetini of the Brumbies during their Super Rugby Pacific match at the Apollo Projects Stadium.<br \/>\nPhoto: PhotoSport \/ John Davidson\n<\/p>\n<p>The Crusaders have gone down 50-24 to the Brumbies in their Super Rugby Pacific clash at Apollo Projects Stadium in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>The Brumbies led the Crusaders 19-14 at half time.<\/p>\n<p>See how the game unfolded here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JST10Y_260222CrusadersBrumbies_0532_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"George Bell of the Crusaders  scores a try during the Super Rugby Pacific match - Crusaders Vs Brumbies at the Apollo Projects Stadium, New Zealand, 22nd February 2026. Copyright photo: John Davidson \/ www.photosport.nz\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nGeorge Bell scores for the Crusaders during the Crusaders v Brumbies Super Rugby match at the Apollo Projects Stadium.<br \/>\nPhoto: PhotoSport \/ John Davidson\n<\/p>\n<p>Team list<\/p>\n<p>Crusaders: 1 Finlay Brewis, 2 George Bell, 3 Fletcher Newell, 4 Antonio Shalfoon, 5 Jamie Hannah, 6 Dom Gardiner, 7 Ethan Blackadder, 8 Christian Lio-Willie, 9 Noah Hotham, 10 Rivez Reihana, 11 Sevu Reece, 12 David Havili (c), 13 Braydon Ennor, 14 Chay Fihaki, 15 Will Jordan<\/p>\n<p>Bench: 16 Codie Taylor, 17 Tamaiti Williams, 18 Seb Calder, 19 Tahlor Cahill, 20 Corey Kellow, 21 Louie Chapman, 22 Taha Kemara, 23 Leicester Fainga&#8217;anuku<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicester Fainga&#8217;anuku of the Crusaders is tackled by Charlie Cale and Rob Valetini of the Brumbies during their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,760,85],"class_list":["post-496153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}