Last week their timing sucked. This week it was sublime as the Blues snapped their three-game Super Rugby losing skid in the most glorious of style.

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The ACT Brumbies are desperate to stop the rot against New Zealand teams, targeting their first win against a Kiwi opponent in more than a year.

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I feel for the players whose jobs are on the line but SANZAAR can right a wrong by cutting teams.

The ACT Brumbies' most passionate supporter says "I seriously have no idea how I'm going to survive" if the club is axed.

The Brumbies' first ever coach Rod Macqueen says culling the club would have huge ramifications for rugby.

ACT Brumbies flyer Henry Speight struck twice to sink the NSW Waratahs on Saturday night.

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The NSW Waratahs return from South Africa desperate for points, while the ACT Brumbies will want to put questions over their future behind them as they look to build on some solid performances in recent weeks. Follow live here for all the action.

The Hurricanes blew away the Highlanders with a dominant second-half display as the defending Super Rugby champions got back to winning ways with a comprehensive 41-15 victory in Wellington on Saturday.

Melbourne fell short of a win but pushed the Chiefs and their case to remain in next year's Super Rugby competition with a gutsy 27-14 loss at AAMI Park.

Three days after the joy of making his Super Rugby debut, Andrew Kellaway arrived at Waratahs training adamant he would be booted back to Shute Shield on the weekend.

Wallabies skipper Stephen Moore has been dropped to the bench with Andrew Ready set to start for the Queensland Reds in their Super Rugby clash with the Lions in Johannesburg.

Super Rugby should never have gone ahead and needs to be blown up and rebuilt - on Australia's terms - according to the veteran sports media consultant who designed the Super Netball concept and twice warned the Australian Rugby Union it was jeopardising its very existence by going down the 18-team path with South Africa and New Zealand.

Australian rugby bosses have gone to ground over the prospect of one of the country's Super Rugby teams being cut from the competition.

Saturday's Super Rugby clash between the NSW Waratahs and Brumbies will carry added significance this year, with the introduction of the Dan Vickerman Cup.

South Africa's Sharks will be without captain Pat Lambie for an estimated six to eight weeks after the flyhalf suffered a fractured vertebrae in the warm-up before Saturday's 37-14 Super Rugby victory over the New South Wales Waratahs.

The Highlanders have picked up their first win of the Super Rugby campaign, defeating the Blues 16-12 in an Eden Park war of attrition.

The Crusaders have scored their second last-minute comeback in a row, pipping the Queensland Reds at the death with a 22-20 victory in Saturday night's Super Rugby clash.

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In my Super Rugby season preview, I suggested the Australian teams could see the heels of the Kiwi teams and, just maybe, they might close the gap this year. But the gap is as wide as ever. So what is driving the men from across the ditch?

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Kurtley Beale proves Australia's best defence against the euro and pound is its core values. The promise of a starting jersey doesn't hurt, either.