{"id":509225,"date":"2026-02-28T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509225\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:18:08","slug":"act-brumbies-look-to-secure-top-spot-against-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509225\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Brumbies look to secure top spot against Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The ACT Brumbies will be out to continue their perfect start as they host the Blues in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Brumbies return home after starting the season with back-to-back away wins over the Western Force and Crusaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Stephen Larkham has kept the same 23 for the third straight week, facing a Blues side coming off a win over the Western Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Blues started the season with a narrow defeat to the Chiefs, eager to get revenge after last year&#8217;s defeat at Eden Park to the Brumbies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">All Blacks Sam Darry and Ofa Tu\u2019ungafasi are among the new faces in the starting side, with captain Dalton Papali&#8217;i set to bring up 100 games for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">FOLLOW ALL THE ACTION IN THE LIVE BLOG BELOW OR THE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/match-centre\/205\/2026\/949222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">MATCH CENTRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ACT BRUMBIES v BLUES TEAMS<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">BRUMBIES (1-15):\u00a0James Slipper, Billy Pollard, Rhys van Nek, Lachie Shaw, Cadeyrn Neville, Rob Valetini, Rory Scott, Charlie Cale, Ryan Lonergan (c), Declan Meredith, Corey Toole, David Feliuai, Kadin Pritchard, Ollie Sapsford, Andy Muirhead<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Liam Bowron, Blake Schoupp, Tevita Alatini, Toby Macpherson, Luke Reimer, Klayton Thorn, Tane Edmed, Hudson Creighton<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">BLUES (1-15):\u00a0Ofa Tu&#8217;ungafasi, Kurt Eklund, Marcel Renata, Laghlan McWhannell, Sam Darry, Anton Segner, Dalton Papali&#8217;i (c), Hoskins Sotutu, Finlay Christie, Stephen Perofeta, Caleb Clarke, Pita Akhi, AJ Lam, Cole Forbes, Zarn Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Bradley Slater, Mason Tupaea, Sam Matenga, Josh Beehre, Torian Barnes, Taufa Funaki, Xavi Taele, Codemeru Vai<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Referee:\u00a0Angus Gardner<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Assistant Referees:\u00a0George Myers, Matt Kellahan<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">TMO:\u00a0Graham Cooper<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO WATCH ACT BRUMBIES v BLUES<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Brumbies&#8217; clash with the Blues will be shown LIVE on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Coverage will be live and ad-free on Stan Sport, slated to start at 7:00 pm with kickoff expected at 7:35 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ACT Brumbies will be out to continue their perfect start as they host the Blues in Canberra.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[58864,64,63,3925,760,85,48013],"class_list":["post-509225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-act-brumbies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blues","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509225","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=509225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}