The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua have created history, beating the ACT Brumbies 33-28 in Canberra.<\/p>\n
While Brumbies winger Ollie Sapsford drew first blood to lead 7-0<\/p>\n
Manasa Mataele\u00a0was one of the stars of the Drua side after he scored a double to help his side get a rare away win.<\/p>\n
Mataele’s first try came from a quick\u00a0recycle from the ruck, utilising some quick ball and sending it out wide.<\/p>\n
Isikeli Basiyalo left the game in the 16th minute to be replaced by nippy halfback Simi Kuruvoli on the wing.<\/p>\n
Isaiah\u00a0Armstrong-Ravula put the Drua in front after converting a penalty from 30 metres out to lead 8-7.<\/p>\n
Mataele further extended the Drua’s lead in the 28th minute\u00a0after reading the Brumbies’ attack and intercepting a pass making it 15-7<\/p>\n
Halfback\u00a0Issak Fines-Leleiwasa extended the Drua’s lead after taking a quick tap and diving over the line, making it 22-7 to the Drua.<\/p>\n
The Drua led 22-7 at the break.<\/p>\n
Sapsford got his second try in the 43rd minute, utilising an overlap on the outside making it 22-14 to the Brumbies.<\/p>\n
Kuruvoli saved the Drua’s skin after Sapsford popped up the ball on the Drua 5 metre line, but there was no Brumbies player to receive it.<\/p>\n
Virimi Vakatawa was a menace to the Brumbies defence with his devastating runs, offloading to Kuruvoli to dash up the side and score, making it 30-14 to the Drua.<\/p>\n
Fullback Isikeli Rabitu was stretchered off the field after he collided with a Brumbies player and also received a yellow card as he was the tackler.<\/p>\n
57″ Yellow card to Rabitu as he was the tackler and should have lowered himself. Medics are still with Rabitu as he looked like he was knocked unconscious. <\/p>\n
The Brumbies utilised the overlap and secured another try, keeping the Drua within range at 21-30<\/p>\n
With 10 minutes to go, the Brumbies\u00a0set-piece move from the ruck caught the Drua napping, throwing an inside ball to Corey Toole, who powered up the midfield untouched to keep the Brumbies within 3 points at 28-30<\/p>\n
A bit of back and forth as the teams fought for possession, but Isaiah Armstrong-Ravula slotted in a penalty to end things at 33-28 with the Drua beating the Brumbies twice in one season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua have created history, beating the ACT Brumbies 33-28 in Canberra. While Brumbies winger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[200281,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-386362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-drua-fijian-drua-rugby-rugby-union-super-rugby","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}