The Brumbies have the happy news that last season’s livewire halves pairing of Christian Lealiifano and Nic White (now recovered from injury) are featuring in Wallaby selector’s thoughts:
Eight University of Canberra Brumbies players have travelled to Sydney this week for a pre-season Wallabies camp that has drawn Australia’s best talent together.
Ben Alexander, David [...]

The Brumbies have announced their 2013 leadership team:
Ben Mowen will again lead the University of Canberra Brumbies in 2013 after Head Coach Jake White confirmed his Captain and Vice-Captains on Thursday morning.
Backing Mowen up as Vice-Captains for the 2013 Super Rugby season are Stephen Moore, Christian Lealiifano and new recruit David Pocock.
Now in [...]

I normally like my Brumbies under-rated by the rest of the media.
But The Roar is making the case for the ponies to top the Australian conference:
I’m backing the Brumbies to not only top the Australian conference, but to do so without losing to an Australian side. I may be showing a bit of bias here, [...]

The ABC reports the Brumbies have taken a second stab at getting a Rugby League coach to stiffen up their tackles.
Former NRL coach Brian Smith has joined the coaching staff of Super Rugby club the ACT Brumbies for next season.
Smith coached NRL clubs Parramatta, St George Illawarra, Newcastle and the Roosters.
Smith never won a [...]

The Centenary of Canberra people are very excited to have turfed the Canberra coat of arms off the Brumbies jersey in favour of their own logo:
Traditionally the right breast on the University of Canberra Brumbies jersey has been reserved for the ACT Coat of Arms, but with the Territory celebrating 100 years in 2013 [...]

The Brumbies have announced they’ve picked up Land Rover as a sleeve sponsor for the next two years.
The University of Canberra Brumbies were excited to be partnered with one of the world’s most respected brands. Brumbies Rugby Chief Executive Andrew Fagan said he was pleased to be able to welcome Land Rover to the [...]

The Brumbies have the interesting news that coming last in 2012 has seen Easts get a large contingent of Brumbies for next year:
Eight new University of Canberra Brumbies players have been allocated to Canberra’s John I Dent clubs for the 2013 season with Easts picking up the majority of the talent on offer, on [...]

The Brumbies are letting us all know about their expanded pre season squad taking up local club players:
The University of Canberra Brumbies have rewarded nine of Canberra’s most promising rugby players with spots in their pre-season squads in preparation for the 2013 Super Rugby and John I Dent seasons.
Sam Windsor (Queanbeyan), Matt Hawke, Andrew [...]

The Brumbies have let it be known they’ve hired a current NRL player, Danny Buderus, to come down once a week and help them work on their tackling:
Buderus will maintain his position as a player with the Knights in the NRL, travelling to Canberra one day a week through to the start of the [...]

The Brumbies have announced two more South African tinged recruits:
The University of Canberra Brumbies 2013 playing roster is now full, with the announcement that Stephan Van Der Walt and Mark Swanepoel have occupied the final two EPS positions.
Van Der Walt arrives from Queensland where he has been playing with Queensland Country and the University [...]

The Brumbies are letting us know they’ve started pre-season training for a 2013 we’ve got high hopes for.
Head Coach Jake White said he was pleased with where the squad was positioned at this stage of the season.
“The players were given their own programs to work through while they were away and it’s encouraging [...]

The Brumbies say they’re celebrating that David Pocock, Ben Alexander, Stephen Moore, and Pat McCabe have been selected in the Wallabies 30 man touring squad heading to the Europe next month.
One suspects the Brumbies would have preferred all four stayed home, in training, and not getting smashed by France, England and Wales.
But there are [...]

The Brumbies have announced the long speculated on signing of back rower Etienne Oosthuizen from the wreckage of the Lions.
A South African national who represented his country of birth at schoolboys’ level, Oosthuizen has been recruited as the University of Canberra Brumbies Foreign Development Player after Henry Speight’s status changed to Australian in August.
With [...]

The Brumbies have announced their draw for 2013 after getting a dream run in 2012:
Saturday, 16 February
Brumbies v Reds
Canberra Stadium
Kick-off: 7.40pm
Friday, 22 February
Rebels v Brumbies
AAMI Park, Melbourne
Kick-off: 7.40pm
Saturday, 9 March
Brumbies v Waratahs
Canberra Stadium
Kick-off: 7.40pm
Sunday, 17 March
Sharks v Brumbies
Kings Park, Durban
Kick-off: 2.05am
Sunday, 24 March
Stormers v Brumbies
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town
Kick-off: 4.10am
Saturday, 30 March
Brumbies v Bulls
Canberra Stadium
Kick-off: [...]

Foxsports have the news that tortured soul Clyde Rathbone is at age 31 making a comeback for Brumbies selection:
Rathbone retired from rugby prematurely in 2009 after being sidelined repeatedly with groin, knee, facial and hamstring issues following 26 Tests and 52 games with the Brumbies.
The tackle-shedding flyer revealed in February this year he had [...]

(and Pocock doesn’t count as we’ve lost Hooper)
The Australian team to play New Zealand in Sydney at 8pm on August 18th:
15. Kurtley Beale (Melbourne Rebels)
14. Adam Ashley-Cooper (NSW Waratahs)
13. Rob Horne (NSW Waratahs)
12. Anthony Fainga’a (Queensland Reds)
11. Digby Ioane (Queensland Reds)
10. Berrick Barnes (NSW Waratahs)
9. Will Genia (Queensland Reds, vice-captain)
8. Scott Higginbotham (Queensland Reds)
7. David [...]

The Brumbies have announced the outcome of last night’s presentation gala:
University of Canberra Brumbies hooker Stephen Moore has been named Brett Robinson Player’s Player for the 2012 Super Rugby season after the club held its Presentation Night on Saturday.
Moore enjoyed one of his most comprehensive seasons, knocking over his 50th Brumbies cap against [...]

Rob, Tim and I mix up the rugby ideas in Duxton, and expound on matters rugby and Pocock.
The music is by Mornings
You can download it now.
Our tips are:
Rob: Chiefs
John: Sharks
Tim: Chiefs

Rob, Tim and I mix up the rugby ideas in Duxton, enjoy the astonishingly good $5 T-Bone (monday nights only, with a full priced schooner of Carlton Dry or a cider) and expound on matters rugby and beer.
The beer for review is the Four PInes Pale Ale (take II because Rob forgot we had [...]

Rob, Tim and I mix up the rugby ideas in Duxton, enjoy the astonishingly good $5 T-Bone (monday nights only, with a full priced schooner of Carlton Dry or a cider) and expound on matters rugby and beer.
The beer for review is the stonking Imperial Pint of Little Creatures Pale Ale and the music [...]

On Friday morning we faced a weekend in which, for the Brumbies to miss the finals, a very great number of things had to go wrong, including their own performance. They were in a great position and masters of their own destiny.
As Foxsports informs us the very worst has come to pass.
The Super Rugby [...]

The Brumbies have announced what will happen is they hold their place at the top of the Australian conference after this Saturday afternoon.
The University of Canberra Brumbies have released ticketing details in the event they proceed to the FX Pro Super Rugby qualifiers to be played on the weekend of Friday 20 and Saturday [...]

The Brumbies have published their side to take on the underperforming but All Black laden Auckland Blues this Saturday afternoon.
As forshadowed in the podcast Fotu Auelua is back in the side and will be coming rampaging off the bench.
Big Joe Tomane is also recovered and pushing Robbie Coleman to the bench which is bit of [...]

The Brumbies are celebrating local up and coming talent:
Neori Nadruku [Eddies] and Andrew Robinson [MacKillop] were selected in the top side while fullback Montana O’Neill [Marist] will play for Australia A.
…
Robinson represented both Australia A and Australia at schoolboys level in 2011, while for Nadruku, the son of former rugby league international Noa, [...]

Rob and I mix up the rugby ideas in Duxton, enjoy the astonishingly good $5 T-Bone (monday nights only, with a full priced schooner of Carlton Dry or a cider) and expound on matters rugby and beer.
The beer for review is the Rekorderlig Premium Wild Berry Cider and the music is by Beth ‘n [...]

It’s important to remember just how miserable last season was for the Brumbies and just how many stars they cleaned out in favour of no-name players.
With that in mind Foxsports has word of their first win over NSW in Sydney since 2002.
No 51-10 this time, but 19-15 will do.
Roll on the All Black laden, but [...]

The Brumbies have announced their side to play the hated NSW Waratahs in Sydney this weekend.
Confirming that even the second half slow-down in Perth was part of the game plan they’ve named the same side.
After starting the season with just 396 caps combined, the University of Canberra Brumbies will carry and extra 213 games [...]

One normally doesn’t expect a large back rower to be seen kicking goals.
But the Brumbies have released this video of Ita Vaea slotting a tricky one at practice in Perth despite the best efforts of his team mates to put him off.
Good to know if Zack Holmes has another off night with the boot!

Foxsports tells the tale of an intriguing game of rugby played last night whereby our brave lads played a perfect first half of rugby to humiliate Gina’s Minions.
They then shut up shop allowing a rampaging Honey Badger (Nick Cummins) to expose the Wallaby selectors as fools.
But the game was always under control and, as importantly, [...]

The Brumbies have named their side to have at the Force in Perth this weekend.
The players are:
University of Canberra Brumbies
1. Ben Alexander
2. Stephen Moore
3. Dan Palmer
4. Scott Fardy
5. [...]

Rob, Tim and I mix up the rugby ideas in Duxton and expound on matters rugby, beer, and girls who’ll play Carcassonne in the pub with me when rugby is on.
The beer for review is the Itchy Green Pants Australian Cloudy Ale and the music is by Sunchaser and the Wayward Orchestra.
You can download it [...]

The Brumbies have announced Dr Michael Crawford plans for the governance of the ACT & Southern NSW Rugby Union.
Dr Crawford’s report contains five primary recommendations:
• The Brumbies (team and commercial business) be managed through a wholly commercial entity separate from ACT&SNSWRU, to which ACT&SNSWRU leases the intellectual property and management rights [...]