{"id":427666,"date":"2026-05-06T05:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/427666\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:08:10","slug":"force-team-confirmed-for-swains-100th-away-to-brumbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/427666\/","title":{"rendered":"Force team confirmed for Swain&#8217;s 100th away to Brumbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Harry Johnson-Holmes and Vaiolini Ekuasi will both come into the Western Force starting line-up for Saturday night\u2019s Round 13 Swyftx Super Rugby Pacific clash with the ACT Brumbies in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">It will be a fitting return to Canberra for Darcy Swain who has been named at lock to bring up his 100th Super Rugby cap, having previously notched 76 caps for the Brumbies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Swain, who was born in North Queensland, moved to Canberra in 2016, spending eight years with the Brumbies, before heading west to the Force prior to the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com.au\/western-force-v-queensland-reds-zero2hero-perth-16-05-2026\/event\/13006397D0166E94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Tickets are on sale now for the Force&#8217;s next home game against the Queensland Reds on Saturday 16 May 5:35pm via Ticketmaster &#8211; the Club&#8217;s zero2hero Charity Game. Book here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Dylan Pietsch, whose re-signing with the Force on a two-year deal was confirmed earlier this week, will bring up his 50th Super Rugby cap too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Johnson-Holmes returns to the starting team after a strong run of form when playing large minutes off the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Ekuasi is back in the XV after being a late withdrawal for last round\u2019s 20-17 win over the NSW Waratahs for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Joondalup Brothers and Force Academy product Marley Pearce is added among the impacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Tighthead prop Misinale Epenisa is unavailable due to head injury protocols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Force are otherwise unchanged for Saturday\u2019s game against the sixth-placed Brumbies, who are seven points ahead of the 10th-placed Force on the Super Rugby ladder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Saturday night\u2019s game will be live on both Stan Sport and 9Gem, with kick off at 5:35pm WST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">In the run-on side, Tom Robertson and Johnson-Holmes are the props, with Wallaby Brandon Paenga-Amosa at hooker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Captain Jeremy Williams reverts to the second row alongside 17-cap Wallaby Swain, with Ekuasi returning to the back row alongside Wallabies pair Nick Champion de Crespigny and Carlo Tizzano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Henry Robertson will work alongside Ben Donaldson, with Hamish Stewart \u2013 who brought up his 50th Force cap last round \u2013 and George Bridge in the midfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Milestone man Pietsch, who has scored four tries in four games, and Zac Lomax will start on the wings, with Mac Grealy at full-back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The impacts are Nic Dolly, Pearce, Sef Fa\u2019agase \u2013 for his 99th Super Rugby cap, Franco Molina, Will Harris, Nathan Hastie, Bayley Kuenzle and Kurtley Beale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">If Beale plays, he&#8217;ll bring up his 184th Super Rugby cap, closing within one of Aaron Smith (185) in joint third in competition history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com.au\/western-force-v-queensland-reds-zero2hero-perth-16-05-2026\/event\/13006397D0166E94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Tickets are on sale now for the Force&#8217;s next home game against the Queensland Reds on Saturday 16 May 5:35pm via Ticketmaster &#8211; the Club&#8217;s zero2hero Charity Game. Book here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Game details<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">ACT Brumbies vs Western Force<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Saturday 9 May, 5:35pm WST<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">GIO Stadium, Canberra<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Live on Stan Sport (TV) &amp; 9Gem (TV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Western Force team list<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">1 Tom Robertson<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">2 Brandon Paenga-Amosa<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">3 Harry Johnson-Holmes<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">4 Jeremy Williams (c)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">5 Darcy Swain<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">6 Nick Champion de Crespigny (vc)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">7 Carlo Tizzano<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">8 Vaiolini Ekuasi<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">9 Henry Robertson<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">10 Ben Donaldson (vc)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">11 Dylan Pietsch<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">12 Hamish Stewart<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">13 George Bridge<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">14 Zac Lomax<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">15 Mac Grealy<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Reserves; 16 Nic Dolly, 17 Marley Pearce, 18 Sef Fa&#8217;agase, 19 Franco Molina, 20 Will Harris, 21 Nathan Hastie, 22 Bayley Kuenzle, 23 Kurtley Beale<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">SKG Radiology Unavailable List<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Misinale Epenisa (head injury) \u2013 return to play protocols<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Alex Harford (shoulder) &#8211; medium term<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Darby Lancaster (ankle) &#8211; season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Johnson-Holmes and Vaiolini Ekuasi will both come into the Western Force starting line-up for Saturday night\u2019s Round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,28899],"class_list":["post-427666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}