Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nFamily members are expected to fly from Melbourne to the nation’s capital for the occasion after Kemu missed their round five clash, where the Drua triumphed 42-27.<\/p>\n
That result also meant Rob couldn’t cap off his 100th Super Rugby Pacific appearance with a victory, and with their rematch looming, he is looking to earn a win back.<\/p>\n
“We have played each other a couple of times now. But that feeling doesn’t go away. It’s always unreal to see the sibling on the other side at this level,” the backrower with Fijian descent said.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully, we can both be on at the same time and have a few minutes against each other.<\/p>\n
“Just knowing our parents are watching on from the stands will be really nice.”<\/p>\n
The Brumbies will need to pick up a victory to keep their top two aspirations intact as they sit three points behind the second-placed Chiefs (27) in a congested ladder.<\/p>\n
They will take some confidence from a grinding 14-10 victory against the Highlanders last round, which coach Stephen Larkham branded as their best defensive performance of the year.<\/p>\n
“They have got that razzle dazzle about them. They’re big athletes, and one-on-one, they’re quite hard to tackle and defend against,” the two-time John Eales Medalist said of the Drua.<\/p>\n
“We talked about our defence being more aggressive … that will be the main focus for us.”<\/p>\n
The Brumbies will be boosted as Wallabies fullback Tom Wright returns from an ACL tear, although back-rower Charlie Cale has been sidelined after sustaining a shoulder injury against the Highlanders.<\/p>\n
“Every game is important. We’ve already lost a couple of games this year that we’re very disappointed in,” Larkham said.<\/p>\n
“Like every other team, you need to be in the top two because that makes your run into the finals a lot easier.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beating the Fijian Drua would help boost the ACT Brumbies top two aspirations, but for Rob Valetini, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[58864,64,63,760,85,48013],"class_list":{"0":"post-612019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-act-brumbies","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-super-rugby-pacific"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612019","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=612019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}