Brumbies end Highlanders’ run
24 Mar 2012
SIMON BORCHARDT reports on the Brumbies’ 33-26 victory in Canberra that brought the Highlanders’ four-match winning streak to a halt.
Jake White’s side raced out to a 17-3 lead after 20 minutes, but the Highlanders fought back well to make it 26-26 early in the second half. However, the loss of flyhalf Colin Slade, who appeared to break an ankle, broke the visitors’ momentum and they conceded a soft try on the 60-minute mark that proved to be decisive.
The Highlanders will also regret the poor start they made to the game, when centre Tamati Ellison’s pass was intercepted by Joe Tomane, who ran 80m to score.
The winger struck again 10 minutes later when the Brumbies, who had been starved of possession, sent the ball wide from a turnover. Midfielder Andrew Smith was put into space on the left and found Tomane, who cut back inside for his double.
Slade, who had earlier kicked a drop goal, exchanged penalties with opposite number Christian Lealiifano, before a break from winger Hosea Gear led to a try for scrumhalf Aaron Smith that reduced the deficit to four.
But Lealiifano’s third penalty, on the half-time hooter, gave the hosts a 20-13 lead despite them having had just 33% of the ball.
It didn’t take the Highlanders long to level the scores when, following a penalty goal apiece, Shaun Treeby was brought to ground but not held by the tackler. The centre jumped back up to his feet and ran away to score next to the posts.
At that stage it looked as if the visitors were on track for win No 5. But then Slade left the field and they conceded that soft try after losing possession at a maul near their 22. Brumbies hooker Stephen Moore got boot to ball and flanker Michael Hooper picked it up to score what was ultimately the match-winning try.
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24 Mar 2012, 15:02 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-94: I know you can only play whats in front of you, but you’re kidding if you dont think you had an easy run in 07. If Wayen Barnes had his prescriptions on…..
24 Mar 2012, 15:03 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-97: Tonga sure as hell put up a better showing than your lot. Cant forget that, or the 15-12 lead Canada had on your boys in your warm-up for the World Cup. Now that was another little fact swept under the carpet by Middle-Earth.
24 Mar 2012, 15:04 pm
Here we go again. The RWC2007 hoary old chestnut
France lost to Argentina (twice).
NZ lost to France.
France lost to England.
Australia lost to England.
SA beat England (twice).
SA beat Argentina.
SA were champions as a result of beating every team good enough to meet them. The best of the rest.
Unlike NZ in RWC2011. They were denied by the devious methods of one of their own the chance of playing the best.
24 Mar 2012, 15:04 pm
Barnesie def got done over by the kiwi faithful, a terrible case of denigrating a young ref if ever there was one…
Brycie L on the other hand, truly hopeless as titties on a bloubul..
24 Mar 2012, 15:05 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-100: You seem to be getting upset. does losing 7 of the last 8 against the wallabies upset you?
I know how you feel mate. We can’t beat those bloody AB’s. I reckon they use black magic on us, no pun intended.
24 Mar 2012, 15:06 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-100:
Oh ok.
So June 2004 is when he took the team over and it was placed 6th on rankings table.
June 2005, a year later SA were third. I have still yet to find where he took them from 6th to 2nd in that season.
I am only getting this from the IRB website so i dont know where you are gtting your info from. Once again please show us where this happened.
You seem a little tense, name calling your thing by the look of it….. i put it down to no cuddles.
Poor Alucard….no cuddles.
24 Mar 2012, 15:07 pm
@cab(cab)-104: I think we can all agree we are happy to see the end of B.Lawrence
24 Mar 2012, 15:08 pm
as a highlander fan,i’ll take solace in the fact we smashed them everywhere bar the scoreboard, so i wouldn’t be to cocky brumbies a crappy intercept doesn’t make you the champs.
24 Mar 2012, 15:08 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-106: No cuddles will do that to a man
24 Mar 2012, 15:09 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-102:
true, what was the final scoreline on that canadian game again?
And yeah Tonga played a good game as they did against us in 2001 RWC.
Thats the beauty of the RWC, you can just about lose to anyone.
24 Mar 2012, 15:10 pm
@We are red(Redbull)-107:
yep, poor old brycie made me laugh, crazy little bugger, the worst thing about him was his trigger finger for the cards, he flashed more yellow cards in one sharks game than an italian game of roundball..
24 Mar 2012, 15:11 pm
@dermie(dermie)-108: Dermie havent you learn the best team on the night is the one with the most points on the board at the end of the game.
I think the best team tonight was the team who kept ball in hand. Both teams were getting over the advantage line and doing really well with ball in hand. Could have gone either way
24 Mar 2012, 15:11 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-103:
Yep and fair winners of the RWC 2007.
Shame you cant get over being screwed in a final match like NZ were in 2007.
Takes a while and it does haunt you once in a while but one day young spooner, you will come round.
24 Mar 2012, 15:12 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-110: except the ABs,they never lose to yhe minnows.
24 Mar 2012, 15:13 pm
@We are red(Redbull)-99:
haha, and noted
24 Mar 2012, 15:15 pm
goddamnit that brycie screwed us royally, gotta have been direct order from GH to keep the Boks out of semi, we coulda taken then ABs even at Eden Park..
24 Mar 2012, 15:15 pm
@cab(cab)-111: lets not get too crazy cab. thats a lot of yellows we’re talking about. those Italians sure know how to grab knee and roll 30 times. watching that junk makes me laugh. there are some good rugby vs soccer youtube video’s showcasing the soccer drama acting school and some heavy rugby hits. i like to troll on them every now and then. you should give it a go on a lonely saturday night at home one weekend. kind of like this one. haha
24 Mar 2012, 15:15 pm
@We are red(Redbull)-112: jeez i hate the brumbies,as a long suffering ‘landers fan that hurt,at least we have the rebels in invercargill next game.
24 Mar 2012, 15:17 pm
@cab(cab)-116:
coulda,shoulda,wanteda, never dida.
Sorry Cab, but it wasnt going to happen. If you cant beat Oz on nuetral turf then you wernt going to beat the ABs at home.
24 Mar 2012, 15:20 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-119: erm. you are missing the point. Your compatriot Brycie took care of that.
24 Mar 2012, 15:20 pm
@We are red(Redbull)-117:
I like the push to the shoulder and they fall down holding their face….. a classic football move.
Actually i have seen something close to that in rugby. It happened in the RWC 2011. I believe it was Brussow and maybe a Fijian. Fijian pushed Brussows face and Brussow did the 360 backflip followed by a well performed belly flop. Now i think this is practiced in the Boks team cos it didnt look natural at all.
24 Mar 2012, 15:21 pm
@We are red(Redbull)-117:
yeah horrendous game, used to be quite fun when they still had a few duffers about who’d just chop everything in sight, pretty much what the english and scots do cos they aint got the skills of the others, that was quite entertaining..as for the big hit, they dont get much bigger then in league in your part of the world in the 80s and 90s, state of origin and that wally guy – could been a headhunter from papua new guinea…
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-119:
come now Huricane, even a one-eyed supporter like u must have thought the Bokke had the beating of the ABs?
24 Mar 2012, 15:21 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-120:
And thanks to no plan B of the Boks, Brycie did well.
24 Mar 2012, 15:23 pm
speaking of BH, where is the bugger?! that was one knowledgable englishman, and very fair too..
24 Mar 2012, 15:23 pm
@dermie(dermie)-118:
It’s tough in Canberra dermie.
And your boys showed grit.
Win some , lose some.
Your lot are doing well.
24 Mar 2012, 15:25 pm
@cab(cab)-122:
Cab.
Nope,in 2011 Boks came to NZ in tri nations and was screwed 40-7 in Wellington.
Why would i think the Boks would beat the ABs at Eden Park?.
24 Mar 2012, 15:25 pm
tell u what a fit and picked Bok side, just think of those names, jam-packed of legends in the fall,
beasty, bismark, bakkies, matfield, brussow, burger, du preez, alberts, habana, steyn, fourie, jp – what a team!
24 Mar 2012, 15:25 pm
@cab(cab)-124:
Fair……………………………………………………………………………..he was as jaundiced towards my Country as you lot.
24 Mar 2012, 15:27 pm
@cab(cab)-124:
lol, fair?
You have to be kidding, he was as fair as prickboks.
Mind you, he did believe Barnes was the best ref in 2007, like you all did. You had Something in common i must say.
24 Mar 2012, 15:27 pm
@cane(cane)-125: cheers bro.
24 Mar 2012, 15:28 pm
goddam Brycie’s antics amounted to a lower blower than suzie, who woulda thought u could still buy a ref off so brazenly like that in the modern game…i dont think future RWCs should be allowed to take place in NZ, that was very unfair.
24 Mar 2012, 15:28 pm
@cab(cab)-127: habana?the intercept king.
24 Mar 2012, 15:31 pm
@dermie(dermie)-132:
thats a bit like calling cullen a one-hit wonder.
24 Mar 2012, 15:31 pm
@cab(cab)-131:
There is a difference here. We acknowledge that Brycie reffed a bad game.
On the other hand from you all we hear, Suzie never existed, Barnes was great and we paid to have the RWC at NZ only to find out that SA fked there bid up,lol
24 Mar 2012, 15:32 pm
@cab(cab)-122: Never tell a League fan that please. We have a long standing rivalry about which game is tougher. We all know the answer but they’re all braun and no brains. To them, we’re just a bunch of soft **** private school boys. Interesting fact about Papua New Guinea, I went to the same primary school in PNG as Will Genia. When he came to Australia, he started playing soccer at high school. What a waste that would have been.
He should thank the boarding school seniors who beat you up untill you play rugby. Im sure that happens a lot in SA too?
24 Mar 2012, 15:34 pm
didnt realise the paekakariki express had such disdain for mitchy the kid, musta been cos he was dropped, mind u thats got to be one of mitchells worst decisions ever. another wellingtonian.
24 Mar 2012, 15:35 pm
@cab(cab)-131: If it makes you feel better, I was blushing at the end of that game. I’d be lying if i didnt celebrate it with a few beers though. Good riddance to Bryce though. Didnt love him during super xv last year
24 Mar 2012, 15:35 pm
@cab(cab)-133:
Now theres a player. Shame the guy got the injury and really never got back and of course Deans and Mitchell making sure he wasnt picked again.
24 Mar 2012, 15:35 pm
@cab(cab)-133: that’s a terrible analogy,not even on the same page.close to the greatest fullback of all time.
24 Mar 2012, 15:37 pm
@dermie(dermie)-114: The All Blacks have been beaten by Munster. But lets not talk about that, don’t want to upset Cane. All Blacks never doing anything wrong and are always better than everyone else. Much like that spoilt brat in Willy Wonka.
24 Mar 2012, 15:37 pm
@We are red(Redbull)-135:
yep, pretty tough game, i just thought it was tackle after tackle, bit braindead, but that etlingshauser ET fella (not our extraball) was very gifted, one does wonder how good the wallabies could actually be if union was bigger.
24 Mar 2012, 15:38 pm
@cab(cab)-136: can’t stand mitchell,didn’t even tell him to his face.good luck lions,with a moron like that as coach.
24 Mar 2012, 15:39 pm
@dermie(dermie)-139:
what about the rolls royce, andre joubert? RWC 95 final with broken hand…oh what memories, tears to my eyes…
24 Mar 2012, 15:40 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-140:
Well thats a bit rich seen as SA only recently lost to Leicester and Saracens.
24 Mar 2012, 15:41 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-140: internationals,not give the midweekers a run.
24 Mar 2012, 15:41 pm
@cab(cab)-141:
Yep, OZ would be an even greater problem to us if they didnt play league.
But if NZ didnt play league as well, we would be in a better position as well.
24 Mar 2012, 15:42 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-134: Suzie? There was an interview with Jonah Lomu on the BBC just before the 2007 final. He stated that two players were sick and they were never going to feature anyway. Are yo now telling me that Lomu is a liar?
24 Mar 2012, 15:42 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-146:
Oh hang on a better position……. whats better than first?
24 Mar 2012, 15:43 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-146:
yeah our problem is rugby competes with jukskei and roundball, otherwise we’d beat both u and wobblies combined.
24 Mar 2012, 15:43 pm
@Alucard(Alucard)-140: ireland & scotland never beaten us wales once,just.who else has a record like that?
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