Page 2 - Tom Cusack News Today

The Brumbies have held on to claim a gutsy 12-10 victory over the Hurricanes in Canberra, but only after All Blacks star Jordie Barrett missed two potentially game-winning penalty kicks in the final two minutes. Dan McKellar’s men became just the second Australian team to record a victory over New Zealand opposition in the Super […]

Hurricanes fullback Jordie Barrett missed two potentially game-winning penalties in the dying seconds.

Mark Geenty05:00, Jun 05 2021 Michael Bradley/Getty Images First five-eighth Ruben Love is back pulling the strings for the Hurricanes against the Brumbies. It can’t be the easiest, standing up in front of the Savea brothers, Dane Coles and Jordie Barrett to tell the Hurricanes how they’re going to topple the Brumbies in Canberra. Especially if your name’s Ruben Love, one month past his 20th birthday and handed the reins for his fifth start in the No 10 jersey, with the Canes needing to ...

It was the moment the Brumbies had to realise they have a problem. No matter how much work they’d been doing in the week leading up to the match with the Blues, trying to find the improvements they desperately needed to spark their trans-Tasman campaign, it had to have dawned on them that something bigger […]

Join us at 7:15pm as the Blues look to reclaim the top spot from the Hurricanes with a bonus-point victory.

Blues boss says it could well require five straight victories to secure a spot in the Trans-Tasman final.

Saturday night, in his 182nd outing for the club, will mark his first start for the Chiefs in 1037 days, dating back to the 2018 quarterfinal defeat to the Hurricanes in Wellington – Messam’s last match in New Zealand before leaving for French club Toulon. A week earlier he had played his final game in Hamilton (off the bench against the Hurricanes), while his last start on home turf was another week before that, when he lined up at No 8 against, coincidentally, the Brumbies. “It is a ...

Brumbies seek revenge after Reds repeat AAP 3 hrs ago Murray Wenzel © Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS Jordan Petaia, of the Reds, producing a moment of soaring brilliance to score against the Brumbies. Set piece frustrations will motivate Brumbies captain Allan Alaalatoa as he sets his sights on a Super Rugby AU grand final rematch with the Queensland Reds. The skipper returned from a three-game suspension in Saturdays 24-22 loss to the Reds at Suncorp Stadium, the hosts rallying from...

Unemployment tax relief bill gets warm reception Some business groups want state lawmakers to go further on a hammered-out compromise. Oregon businesses, business lobbyists and lawmakers from both parties blessed a bill that would let some businesses defer part of their unemployment payroll taxes and pay a little less to a reduced state trust fund in future years. House Bill 3389, which the House Rules Committee heard Thursday, April 1, also would set the payroll tax rates for the nex...

Why the Brumbies still have reason to smile after their defeat in Canberra A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Sometimes you can lose a game, but there are still reasons aplenty to make you smile. That was certainly the impression created by the interviews after the conclusion of the best advertisement for Super Rugby AU so far. From body language alone, it was hard to tell the winning from the losing coach....