The Western Force and the Brumbies will avoid the bean-counters' axe as the ARU's appetite wanes for cutting a Super Rugby team. But the let-off is going to cost them.

Interim ACT Brumbies coach Dan McKellar says he will embrace the challenge of stepping up in Stephen Larkham's absence as the players begin a gruelling pre-season campaign.

The ACT Brumbies will turn to a group of fresh leaders to replace some of the biggest names in Australian rugby as they spread the load before determining who will be their new captain.

Props usually dread pre-season training, but Ben Alexander says he'll actually enjoy the Brumbies' preparations this year.

The ACT veterans rugby club will play its last significant rugby match of the year against an HMAS Canberra side in the capital next week.

ACT Brumbies stakeholders met on Wednesday night to push through major constitutional changes to help the Super Rugby club find some off-field stability.

The ACT Brumbies will get a chance to bury Super Rugby demons in a pre-season tournament next year when the club's new-look squad faces off against their 2016 destroyers at the Brisbane Global Tens.

ACT Brumbies acting chief executive Phil Thomson says the club is looking into playing a trial game in China next year, either in the pre-season or during the June Test window.

ACT Brumbies flanker Jarrad Butler grew up with "little shocks every now and then", but he was thankful nothing as big as what hit his home town of Wellington on Monday.

In 2009, then sports minister Andrew Barr pushed for the waiver of nearly $300,000 owed on the Brumbies' Griffith site, on the basis of a suite of benefits that never eventuated.

The ACT Brumbies might be a young, rebuilding team, but recruit Tom Banks just sees that as an opportunity for the taking.

Former Federal Sports Minister Kate Lundy is part of a committee that's narrowed the field for ACT Brumbies chief executive down to two, with a decision potentially made by the end of the week.

ACT police have referred the Brumbies to corporate regulator ASIC over unidentified potential breaches.

ACT Brumbies acting chief executive Phil Thomson says Christian Lealiifano is in good spirits as he prepares to undergo a bone marrow transplant in Melbourne.

The ACT government has refused to release an audit of the Brumbies' finances until after it has consulted with the club and Australian Rugby Union. 

The only thing standing in the way of the ACT Brumbies recruit Anthony Fainga'a's first game back is the birth of his first child.

Sam Carter is hoping to use his Barbarians call-up as a platform to launch himself back into the Wallabies mix.

Brumbies assistant coach Dan McKellar to throw his hat in the ring to replace Stephen Larkham.

No plans for Canberra teams to follow the AFL into China.