Watch every second of Super Rugby AUS live and on-demand via Stan Sport and Rugby.com.au.<\/a><\/p>\nThe visitors leaned heavily on the core of Easts’ Shute Shield-winning side, and it delivered.<\/p>\n
Scrumhalf Teddy Wilson was at his typical best, whilst former Highlanders winger Freedom Vahaakolo was a handful in attack.<\/p>\n
The pair both crossed for doubles in the dominant first half, Vahaakolo opening the scoring in the fifth minute with a powerful burst.<\/p>\n
Australia U20 prop Edwin Langi’s work at scrum time helped establish field position, with Wilson sneaking over, followed by winger Latrell Smiler Ah-Kiong snatching a rolling maul try.<\/p>\n
New recruit Max Burey was also strong, delivering an early chip-and-chase that resulted in a brilliant solo try, only stopped by Corey Toole.<\/p>\n
Toole was the standout for the Brumbies in defeat, looking a class above as he set up their only try of the half after sprinting away and drawing the fullback for Klayton Thorn.<\/p>\n
But Wilson and Vahaakolo struck late for the heavy lead at the break, which the Waratahs controlled for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
New recruits TJ Talaileva and Triston Reilly combined to reduce the advantage and give the hosts hope of a comeback.<\/p>\n
But that was dashed by another Easts standout, centre Otto Serfontein, backing up George Poolman, who was superb, to finish the win off.<\/p>\n
Finn Baxter got the last laugh for the Brumbies with a consolation try, but the Waratahs were all class in the win.<\/p>\n
The only sour point for the Waratahs came after Jack Hardy, son of former Wallaby Mitch, was taken from the field with what looked to be a serious injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NSW Waratahs have picked up from where they left off in Super Rugby AUS, beginning their title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[58864,64,63,32951,760,85,69535],"class_list":["post-890305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-act-brumbies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nsw-waratahs","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-aus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890305","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=890305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}