Brumbies survive 'ugly' ending in rugby thriller

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As cliched arsenic it mightiness sound, it truly was a communicative of 2 halves successful the penultimate lucifer of Super Round astatine Melbourne's AAMI Park.

Ultimately, the Brumbies prevailed successful a thriller against the Blues – taking the contention 25-20.

The archetypal 40 minutes were a tit-for-tat contention with each broadside seemingly responding to each constituent scored.

The 2nd fractional was a acold outcry from the first, with nary points scored and neither squad truly threatening to score.

In the end, the men from the superior took the scalp and with it their 2nd consecutive triumph of the Super Rugby Pacific season.

"Yeah mate, it was ugly, the past 15 to 20 minutes," Noah Lolesio told Stan Sport pundit and Rugby World Cup victor Sonny Bill Williams.

"Against a broadside similar the Blues, sometimes you've conscionable got to triumph ugly.

"I'm truly gladsome connected however we fought done it.

"The Blues are a prime broadside and I'm definite that they'll airy up aboriginal this year.

"Really blessed with however we finished up there.

Lolseio credited manager Steven Larkham's attack to bringing players disconnected the seat to decorativeness beardown and seal the deal.

"He conscionable wants experience, astatine the moment, to travel disconnected (the bench) for the past 30, 35 (minuted)," Lolesio explained.

"The cardinal for america erstwhile we travel connected is to not overplay our manus and I felt similar we did that.

"We got a spot excessively excited astatine times evidently due to the fact that we privation to play, particularly successful that 2nd half.

"The 2nd fractional of that crippled we truly wanted to play territory because, again, a prime broadside similar the Blues, if we overplay we crook implicit the shot and they've got guys similar Rieko (Ioane), Beauty (Beauden Barrett) who tin conscionable airy it up.

"That was our crippled program going into the game."

All told, the Brumbies scored 3 tries to the Blues' two.

The Blues were arguably excessively error-prone, conceding 17 penalties portion the Brumbies made conscionable nine.

The Brumbies volition look the Reds successful circular 3 portion the Blues volition spell head-to-head with the Hurricanes.

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