The second and final game for today sees the Hurricanes travel to Canberra, before having their bye next week.
Will the Brumbies be able to continue their run of wins at home this season?
Or will the Hurricanes add to their string of three consecutive wins after their initial loss in Round 1?
Kick-off in Canberra at 10:40 SA time.
Referee: Willie Roos (South Africa)
TJ’s: Jaco Peyper (South Africa), Ian Smith (Australia)
TMO: Steve Leszczynski (Australia)
Brumbies:
Starting XV: 15 Mark Gerrard, 14 Peter Playford, 13 Sanualio Afeaki, 12 Tyrone Smith, 11 Francis Fainifo, 10 Christian Lealiifano, 9 Patrick Phibbs, 8 Stephen Hoiles, 7 George Smith (captain), 6 Mitchell Chapman, 5 Mark Chisholm, 4 Adam Wallace-Harrison, 3 Salesi Ma’afu, 2 Saia Faingaa, 1 Nic Henderson.
Replacements: 16 Huia Edmonds, 17 Ben Alexander, 18 Peter Kimlin, 19 Julian Salvi, 20 Joshua Holmes, 21 Matt Toomua, 22 Tim Wright.
Hurricanes:
Starting XV: 15 Cory Jane, 14 Shannon Paku, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Tamati Ellison, 11 Hosea Gear, 10 Jimmy Gopperth, 9 Piri Weepu, 8 Rodney So’oialo (captain), 7 Chris Masoe, 6 Jerry Collins, 5 Jason Eaton, 4 Craig Clarke, 3 Neemia Tialata, 2 Andrew Hore, 1 Jacob Ellison.
Replacements: 16 Hikawera Elliot, 17 Tim Fairbrother, 18 Jeremy Thrush, 19 Scott Waldrom, 20 Alby Mathewson, 21 Willie Ripia, 22 Tane Tu’ipulotu.
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Go The Canes 😎
Hi Kette – I must say I think the Canes will definitely take this one.
SW SB Picks for game 30 :
Whindy Brumbies 13
shark-tank Brumbies 13
Bru-El Brumbies 13
PaarlGimmie Brumbies 9
Sandshark Brumbies 9
Kandas Brumbies 8
Lylmik Brumbies 8
Sharkie Brumbies 7
Hmmm Brumbies 7
robdylan Brumbies 7
Western Sauce Brumbies 5
bryce_in_oz Brumbies 5
Nita Brumbies 5
Pissant Brumbies 4
fattmann Brumbies 3
Salmo Brumbies 3
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PostmanPat Hurricanes 2
ZinZan Hurricanes 3
Villie Hurricanes 4
Fatality Hurricanes 4
Sinbinners Hurricanes 5
PJLD Hurricanes 5
Debs Hurricanes 5
Ghost10 Hurricanes 5
blackshark Hurricanes 6
Wehan Hurricanes 6
sharkboy Hurricanes 6
IceBabe Hurricanes 6
KSA Kette Hurricanes 7
SauronShark Hurricanes 7
Dive Pass Hurricanes 7
Ollie Hurricanes 8
King Shark Hurricanes 8
shark_time Hurricanes 8
namboer Hurricanes 10
the_finman Hurricanes 14
Morning Nessa, I am hoping so 🙂
Ag what do you guys know about Rugby. You are women after all 🙄
GO BRUMBIES!!!!!!!!!!
Predictions well split there- this should be interesting. GO CANES!
KSA 😀 😈
😀
KSA…..impossible for a man of your vast rugby knowledge to get 2 in a row completely wrong….. 😳
😆 KSA – I wouldnt speak so soon if i was you. Looks like your wife CANES you regularly …excuse the pun… Hey Nessa…
time on ….
George Smiff got the Zane Kirchner peroxide stripe going… any oldies on this site that would remember the Saffa boxer that started that trend in the 80’s?????
Charlie Weir……you don’t have to be THAT old to remember that…
🙄
ST
after my years and years sitting on the side while he’s reffing, hell even the night our oldest was born, had to go to the game before going to the hospital, I think I have earned some rugby knowledge 😆
Go Canes ❗
I say nothing other than.
GO BRUMBIES!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
brumbies miss a kick ….shame 😉
4 minutes
0-0
brumbies gonna try again….
and points on the board
3-0 Brumbies
7 minutes
Yup KSA! Keep telling yourself that! 😉
Hi BS.
😎 😎
I say nothing. 😉
🙁 Kette- was expecting your trademark …good kick for the canes when the brumbies missed.
KSA soooooo confident in the brumbies he’s leaving to take a shower
Kette is still wearing Bue not realising the Brumbies are in Blue. 😎
brumbies cant scrum…
damn damn damn, its coming off, give me a second 😳
😯 posting in the shower ksa ?
yellow card for 12 yellow 👿
high tackle by canes 12 yellow
The one’s going to shower, the other is taking her clothes off.
Ball by ball account of the KSA marriage.
penalty to the brumbies for the dangerous tackle
Dawn- think of it as S14 meets Days of our lives…
here comes a brumbies try …
nah penalty for offside
brumbies kicking ….
Well I think KSA must come back – the Brumbies are doing better since he left.
BS….
good kick…for the canes 😎
3-0 Brumbies
17 minutes
Canes not getting their game together…brumbies miss kick 😀
ssshhhh we don’t need to tell him Nessa 😉
canes don’t seem to know what they’re doing, missing tackles, passes 😯
c’mon boys, get with the game ❗
rucks & mauls
17 brumbies
2 canes
penalty advantage canes – offside
going for goal
KSA…..stay right where you are 😆 don’t listen to them…you know what happened last time 😥
Thats more like it kette. penalty for canes- offside
good kick … for the brumbies 😥
3-0 Brumbies
21 minutes
still 3-0 22nd minute
canes free kick – not staying on feet
penaties conceded
5 canes
1 brumbies
#12 back on for the canes
“#
Charlie Weir……you don’t have to be THAT old to remember that…
🙄
14.03.08 10:42:48 – shark-tank”
Nailed it in one…!
You’de be surprised at how young some of the bloggers are… Kette was at least born in the late eighties… KSA in the sixties… PJLD and Feesh at least in the late eighties too… 😉
brumbies managed no points while the canes were down to 14.
NOT a good sign.
late eighties?????
You can see Bryce has been married for a while and knows what to say 😆
bryce I loooove you dude 😳 late eighties 😎
ruck on the Brumbies 5m line
spread it wide.
FK Canes.
Opt for scrum 8m out
Brumbies scrum well and get a FK for their efforts.
they clear to the touchline on their own 10
brumbies steal canes ball at the LO.
Canes seemed panicked at the LO. Eaton and other screaming for the ball to be thrown in.
Canes grubber down the touch line and gerrard let’s it roll into ingoal before dotting it down
Wassup ooms en tannies
canes try !
Canes 3 phases on Brumbies 22 and then GIFT it to the Brumbies who run it out to the Canes 10m line
Canes turn it over and run back to score a try!!!!!!!
woohoo
and its a good kick ….for the canes 😀
7-3 Canes
33 minutes
Brilliant passing from turn over … kick over 7-3 canes!
14.03.08 11:12:17 – provincejoulekkading
obviously thats not for me cos bryce says I was born in the late eighties 😎
KSA….you are a bad omen for the Brumbies….take another shower and stay away from the keyboard! Dammit…… 👿
Mortlock on for the Brumbies (water) and he seems to be reading them a bit of a riot act.
Doesn’t look a happy man at all.
cabes free kick brumbies not releasing the all 😎
ST
Cheers, see ya after the game. 😉
cabes = canes, too exciting 😆
Phew! thx
not as exciting as the first game…
😆 ST he’s lying to you cos he’s lying next to me
Awful kick by canes…
canes miss the penalty kick 👿
37 minutes
7-3 Canes
handling errors
canes 4
brumbies 2
HALF TIME
7-3 Canes
14.03.08 11:16:11 – KSA Sharkette
Of course not
hooter goes…and thats HT 7-3 CANES!
Kette….that’s ok, as long as he keeps his grubby paws OFF the keyboard. 😆
C’mon Brumbies.
you need to wake up in the second half.
Canes have only lost in rnd one this season. We can’t afford for them to get 4 wins in a row. 👿
14.03.08 11:23:21 – provincejoulekkading
so you mean I should still try and have a word with the owners of those tickets to KP for you, to make up for the game you missed ❓
14.03.08 11:24:13 – shark-tank
so you mean I should find something else for him to do with his grubby paws 😉
😯
Kette….that’s entirely up to you 😈
Maybe dishes ❓ 🙄
ST
Dishes???????????????? 👿
C’mom BRUMBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KSA….don’t stress….just do it, I have a plan…. 👿
And we are back on…
time on ….c’mon canes ❗
Ja your plan is to get me away from the keyboard. 😆
ST….me too, its called the Canes winning 😎 😆
KSA, not exactly what I had in mind 😉
Canes scrum on the brumbies 5m.
spread it and are now 1m out.
Scrum to Brumbies 5m out. :phew:
ST
Dishes????????????????
14.03.08 11:31:17 – KSA Shark ©
Watch it KSA…are you saying Kette isn’t a dish?
excellent scrum by the Canes.
brumbies get scrappy ball and manage to clear
DP 😉
so close but just just….
brumbies turnover 🙁
canes wake up and tackle damnit ❗
DP…seems KSA likes living dangerously… 😆
Brumbies 4 phases and then chips for the corner. 👿
scrappy scrappy play but beautiful attempt by canes to recover the ball, knock on by brumbies player
Gopperth did damn well there to retain possesion.
water break before the scrum….
canes have it and kick it down field
stolen again, now just retain the ball canes and score ❗
14.03.08 11:24:56 – KSA Sharkette
So nice having a rose among the thorns
Wille Roos had decided “F$%k that I don’t blow high tackles for either team”
TJ penalty…high tackle across the shoulder by yellow 4
TJ has decided if the Ref is blind then he is going to point it out to them.
penalty to the Brumbies
i’ m bored!!! 🙄
wpw same here,
ok this is frustratingly boring, someone – preferably canes – score damnit
Me 3!
ksa shark
so offer kette a back rub or something…
Willie Roos! No friggin wonder. His whisle should have been confiscated before it was ever given to him 👿
wpw, he’s so bored he’s decided to have a snooze 😯
canes try ❗
yellow to brumbies player for foul language 😯
GO Canes!
Yay – go Canes!
brilliant kick
14-3
55 minutes
yawn…canes try! not so bored now…yellow to brumbies 8 for language. kick good 14-3
.
14.03.08 11:48:10 – wpw
😯 shoulda known you boys’d stick together
Oh sheeeeeet!
Hi All!!
Nessa….Me 3????
Roosie giving cards for “foul language” 😯 🙄 😆
finally a try by the brumbies ❗
Try brumbies…yeah! no more scoring..
after several sooooooo close attempts, they finally squeeze through to score
Hi Me2 – didn’t think of that.
Score please?
Have been very busy this morning!!
good kick….for the canes (bounced off the uprights)
14-8 Canes
58 minutes
Can I change my mind and shout for the Brumbies? Seeing as though the Canes are closer to us on the log?
Time remaining? pretty please 🙄
they must have heard our complaints and decided to liven up the game 😉
#
wpw, he’s so bored he’s decided to have a snooze 😯
14.03.08 11:48:37 – KSA Sharkette
Unbelievable!!!
He must be getting old…
morning Me2
ST time remaining :
20 minutes
ST – must be around 20 minutes left.
14.03.08 11:54:28 – Nessa
Noooooo Nessa you can’t now 😉
Kette – you are right – they must have heard us! Just as we were all dosing off, the game has come to life.
Hi Me2…
Unbelievable!!!
He must be getting old…
14.03.08 11:55:33 – wpw
what do you mean getting, he is just plain old 😆
Thx girls, aaaaaag plenty of time left for a Brumbies win.. 😆
#
4.03.08 11:48:10 – wpw
😯 shoulda known you boys’d stick together
14.03.08 11:51:36 – KSA Sharkette
Huh???
😳
Brumbies playin better with 14…
brumbies 2m out to score …..
but the canes have stolen it and they’re running it…
TRY ❗ ❗ ❗ ❗
Jinxed them-canes try!
Okay! Bye… 😡
good kick ….for the brumbies 😥
19-8 Canes
63 minutes
i lost my signal 😯
Game very much alive now…go brumbies! 😀
4.03.08 11:48:10 – wpw
shoulda known you boys’d stick together
14.03.08 11:51:36 – KSA Sharkette
Huh???
14.03.08 11:57:38 – wpw
why should he get a backrub 🙄
canes try ❗ ❗
good kick…..for the canes
26-8 Canes
69 minutes
My margin is so ruined…
another one?
Was that the BP try?
TMO decision pending on a brumbies try ……
My goodness – things are hotting up!
TMO says : ball lost forward prior to going to ground
Kette
I meant he should give YOU a backrub.
If he gets one himself it will just be a bonus…
yup that was the bonus try for the canes
brumbies suck…that try wouldve brought them back…
Hell I just get on & then I have to leave 😡
Now Canes have scored…oh I’m 😐
ooooooh ok wpw, I like your thinking that way better
73 minutes and canes heading down to score again ….
Okay….now the Sharks have to get 5 log points this weekend to maintain the 4 point gap between them and the Canes….
score?
turnover by the brumbies kicked out, yellow LO on the brumbies 22
And now no try for Brumbies…going to fast for me….just going to read from now on 😆
yellow has it and dot the ball down…
canes try #5
74 minutes
5 tries for canes…
good kick
33-8 Canes
75 minutes
shame camera showing some brumbies supporters getting up and walking out 😳
they should have waited…
brumbies try
76 minutes
good kick
33-15 Canes
77 minutes
Oh dear brumbies…
yellow scrum on their 22, out to the canes but stolen by the brumbies
FULL TIME
33-15 Canes
Thanks Kette – nice to be able to follow the game while sitting at work.
the_finman is the closest with 14 margin on SB
Congrats, the bonus point’ll be yours
Thx Kette ❗
pleasure Nessa, just glad the canes won, my week will be wonderful being able to give KSA an even harder time, I’m 2/2 and he’s 0/2 so far 😆 😆
I see he has gone very quiet!
ST
😆 
pleasure, wish I could say sorry the brumbies lost with any sincerity, but I cannot lie 😆
Nessa, he went to sleep at the boring bit 😆
Is he giving ette that back rub??? 👿 🙂
😳 Kette
Yeah…. 🙄
2/2 away wins this morning already…
No back rubs please – we discussed the other day where that leads to! 😳
sadly no back rubs from KSA, will have to wait for 3 weeks til I get to Thailand
We are not discussing Thailand either! 👿
Or tigers – or elephants … 🙁
ONLY SHARKS!!!! 😮
14.03.08 12:35:14 – Me2
works for me 😀
GO SHARKS ❗
That’s the spirit Me2! 😉
KSA and Kette are going to the Tiger sanctuary in Thailand and Neen and I have always wanted to go there – we are sooooo jealous!
Why??? Does Neen want to ride a tiger….or do you want to take one by the tail.. 😆 😆 😆
We want to bring one home with us – especially one of those white ones.
Nessa
so I shouldn’t say I’ll more than likely be going back in May too 🙄
No – you should not. Don’t ruin what promises to be a perfectly good friendship. 🙁
KSA’s up and grumpily updating the log
ok, never heard of thailand or tigers or elephants 😉
Log updated
Canes move to 2nd
Brumbies move to 8th
Jokes aside – don’t forget to e-mail some pictures to me. Would love to see them. Will send KSA my e-mail address.
Damn! 0 from 2
Nessa,
all photos of the holiday will definitely be posted on the blog, along with links to the websites etc. so you can get there one day too 🙂
Kette – I look forward to seeing them.
So who won?
SW standings on SB after this game :
1 Ghost10—-41.33
2 Villie—-34.75
3 Kandas—-34.46
4 IceBabe—-32.33
5 PostmanPat—-32.00
6 ZinZan—-31.75
7 SauronShark—-31.63
8 Debs—-31.58
9 the_finman—-30.75
10 Dive Pass—-30.29
11 Sharkie—-29.63
12 robdylan—-29.50
13 Ollie—-29.33
14 KSA Kette—-28.75
15 namboer—-28.63
16 Fatality—-28.50
17 Whindy—-28.20
18 shark_time—-27.83
19 blackshark—-27.13
20 shark-tank—-27.00
21 Nita—-26.63
22 Lylmik—-25.75
23 King Shark—-25.70
24 bryce_in_oz—-25.50
25 Sandshark—-25.08
26 fattmann—-24.33
27 Wehan—-24.00
28 Pissant—-23.83
29 Bru-El—-23.50
30 sharkboy—-22.83
31 PaarlGimmie—-22.03
32 Western Sauce—-21.83
33 Boofy—-20.33
34 Salmo—-19.25
35 Hmmm—-17.53
36 PJLD—-14.00
37 Sinbinners—-9.50
catch you all later, thanks for a wonderful “winning” morning of rugby 😉
Bye Kette & thanks for the updates etc.