{"id":898649,"date":"2026-09-20T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898649\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:24:09","slug":"watch-live-western-force-act-brumbies-face-off-in-super-rugby-aus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898649\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH LIVE: Western Force, ACT Brumbies face off in Super Rugby AUS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Western Force will be looking to keep in touch with top as they face the ACT Brumbies in Super Rugby AUS.<\/p>\n

The Force are riding high after a last minute win over the Queensland Reds at Ballymore to open their season.<\/p>\n

WATCH BELOW for LIVE and on-demand action across the day on Rugby.com.au.<\/a><\/p>\n

James O’Connor returns to the side after more than a decade away from the club, set to come off the bench.<\/p>\n

As for the Brumbies, they need a win to reach the finals after starting their campaign with a loss to the Waratahs.<\/p>\n

They welcome back their own Wallaby in lock, Nick Frost, who steps into the second-row.<\/p>\n

The entire competition will be broadcast\u00a0live and free via the rugby.com.au YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for the Force-Brumbies MATCH CENTRE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sunday September 20 3:30 pm AEST \u2013 Western Force v ACT Brumbies at North Coast Sharks RUFC, Butler, ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport and Rugby.com.au<\/p>\n

FORCE (1-15):\u00a0Tom Robertson, Nic Dolly (c), Brad Kuhn, Will Harris, Zak Healey, Nick Champion de Crespigny, Jack Daly, Jackson Iose, Nathan Hastie, Kurtley Beale, Ronan Leahy, Boston Fakafanua, Zac Lomax, Wallace Charlie, Mac Grealy<\/p>\n

Replacements:\u00a0Albert Alcock, Max Sawers, Misinale Epenisa, Tim Sail, Seta Baker, Luke Aiken, James O’Connor, Tama Anderson, Kane Koteka, Regin Pratt<\/p>\n

BRUMBIES (1-15):\u00a0Lington Ieli, Liam Bowron, Rhys van Nek, Nick Frost, Toby Macpherson (c), Tavita Loughland, Eli Langi, Oscar Cleary, Klayton Thorn, Tane Edmed, Corey Toole, David Feliuai, Jarrah McLeod, Ollie Sapsford, Triston Reilly<\/p>\n

Replacements:\u00a0Ewald Kruger, Finn Baxter, Darcy Breen, Tu’ukalikali Vaihu, Darcy Fogerty, Dan Nelson, Oscar Shaw, Dylan Bretton, Kadin Pritchard, Chace Oates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force will be looking to keep in touch with top as they face the ACT Brumbies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[58864,64,63,760,85,69535,11229],"class_list":["post-898649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-act-brumbies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-aus","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898649","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=898649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}