{"id":12135,"date":"2012-07-05T12:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T10:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/rugby-white-confident-brumbies-can-bury-sydney-jinx\/"},"modified":"2012-07-05T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T10:14:36","slug":"rugby-white-confident-brumbies-can-bury-sydney-jinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-white-confident-brumbies-can-bury-sydney-jinx\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-White confident Brumbies can bury Sydney jinx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">SYDNEY, July 5<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; ACT Brumbies coach Jake White is<br \/>\nconfident his team can buck their poor Super Rugby record in<br \/>\nSydney and beat the New South Wales Waratahs this weekend to all<br \/>\nbut seal the Australian conference title.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The twice champion Brumbies have never won at the Olympic<br \/>\nstadium and triumphed just once in Sydney but will have high<br \/>\nhopes of overcoming a Waratahs team which has lost their last<br \/>\nsix matches on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former Springboks coach White, who has turned the ailing<br \/>\nprovince around this season, was on Thursday able to name an<br \/>\nunchanged side from that which beat the Western Force on the<br \/>\nback of four first-half tries last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage there&#8217;s still a lot of rugby left for us,<br \/>\npotentially we still have four games to play so in that regard<br \/>\nit&#8217;s great to have been able to keep the same team together,&#8221;<br \/>\nWhite said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be fair to those boys they had a very strong first half<br \/>\nlast Saturday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Brumbies are five points ahead of the Super Rugby<br \/>\nchampion Queensland Reds going into the last two weeks of the<br \/>\ncompetition and host the ailing Auckland Blues in their final<br \/>\nmatch next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the Waratahs having long fallen out of the playoff<br \/>\npicture, White will be aware that it was a core of their players<br \/>\nwho helped Australia to a 3-0 series sweep over Six Nations<br \/>\nchampions Wales last month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got 1069 Super Rugby caps and probably 400 Test<br \/>\ncaps, 11 Wallabies and they are a formidable opponent,&#8221; he<br \/>\nadded.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though they&#8217;ve made some changes to their halves, they<br \/>\nstill have Wallabies on the bench and will pose a massive<br \/>\nchallenge for us.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, July 5 (Reuters) &#8211; ACT Brumbies coach Jake White is confident his team can buck their poor Super Rugby record in Sydney and beat the New South Wales Waratahs this weekend to all but seal the Australian conference title. 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