{"id":9933,"date":"2012-04-14T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-brumbies-smash-rebels-with-first-half-onslaught\/"},"modified":"2012-04-14T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T14:13:58","slug":"rugby-brumbies-smash-rebels-with-first-half-onslaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-brumbies-smash-rebels-with-first-half-onslaught\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Brumbies smash Rebels with first half onslaught"},"content":{"rendered":"

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April 14<\/span> (Reuters) – ACT Brumbies blew the Melbourne Rebels
\naway with four first-half tries before running out 37-6 winners
\nin Canberra to cement their position at the top of the
\nAustralian Super Rugby conference on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Two tries from Scott Fardy as well as scores from Pat
\nMcCabe, Michael Hooper and Ben Mowen gave the Brumbies a bonus
\npoint victory to resume their revival under coach Jake White
\nafter defeats in their last two outings.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rebels had been looking to back up their shock win over
\nthe Auckland Blues last week but their defence was poor and the
\ntalented backline trio of Danny Cipriani, James O’Connor and
\nKurtley Beale were given few chances to show their skills.<\/p>\n

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“We weren’t happy with the way we played last week,”
\nBrumbies skipper Mowen said in a pitchside interview. “We needed
\nto get across the gainline before we went out wide and in the
\nfirst 40 minutes we built that platform.”<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Wallaby centre McCabe opened the floodgates when he ran
\nstraight through an O’Connor tackle to score under the posts in
\nthe 18th minute but it was two tries in two minutes soon
\nafterwards that broke the Rebels.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

First openside flanker Hooper powered through three tacklers
\nto touch down in the 24th minute before O’Connor was caught in
\npossession with lock Fardy bulldozing his way across the line
\nfrom the resultant turnover.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebels skipper Gareth Delve was sin-binned for a deliberate
\nfoul just after the half hour mark and he was still sitting on
\nthe touchline when another McCabe break gave flanker Mowen the
\nfourth try three minutes before halftime.<\/p>\n

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The Rebels tightened things up in the second half but were
\nunable to breach the twice-champions’ line as a combination of
\nerrors and strong Brumbies defence stymied their efforts leaving
\nthem with just two wins from seven matches this season.<\/p>\n

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Fardy added his second try with another tackle-busting run
\n13 minutes from time but by that stage the destiny of the spoils
\nwas in no doubt.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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April 14 (Reuters) – ACT Brumbies blew the Melbourne Rebels away with four first-half tries before running out 37-6 winners in Canberra to cement their position at the top of the Australian Super Rugby conference on Saturday. Two tries from Scott Fardy as well as scores from Pat McCabe, Michael Hooper and Ben Mowen gave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}