It was also a record – \ufeffthe previous heaviest Brumbies loss to the Blues was a \ufeff38-10\ufeff defeat in 2021.<\/p>\n
Watch all the action from the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season,<\/strong><\/em> with<\/strong><\/em> every match ad free, live and and on demand on Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n "We just got physically dominated the whole game really," Brumbies captain Ryan Lonergan said after the Super Rugby Pacific clash at Eden Park.<\/p>\n "We had no go forward in attack and we couldn't seem to slow their ball down at all, or their momentum in defence.<\/p>\n "We had a few opportunities in that first 20 minutes and we couldn't convert them into points and it was all downhill from there.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\ufeff<\/strong> Force thump champs in Beale's sharp comeback<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> 'Crazy' list of perks that Matildas were once denied<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> 'Dejected' Petaia's season in doubt after bad injury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n "We had a similar sort of feeling after the Chiefs game earlier in the season. So disappointing to roll out a similar performance. A big week of review and then move on nice and fast and get ready for the Canes."<\/p>\n Hoskins Sotutu scored two tries in a match that highlighted a gulf between the top New Zealand and Australian teams.<\/p>\n After an indecisive first 10 minutes, the Blues simply overwhelmed their opponents in wet and slippery conditions.<\/p>\n NEW PODCAST! Michael Atkinson and Sam Worthington ask whether an Australian rugby revival is real and can the resurgent Rebels be saved?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/rugby-world-cup-inside-line\/has-australia-finally-caught-up-with-new-zealand\/embed?in_playlist=podcast&style=Cover<\/a><\/p>\n After a day of torrential rain in Auckland, the match seemed likely to become a kicking contest.<\/p>\n Instead, the Blues kept the ball in hand and the Brumbies, who are the best of Australia's teams, couldn't compete against big ball runners like No.8 Sotutu and winger Caleb Clarke.<\/p>\n By halftime, the Blues had scored three tries including Sotutu's double and the Brumbies had been forced to make four times as many tackles as their opponents.<\/p>\n Sotutu is the top try scorer after nine rounds of the tournament with eight.<\/p>\n The second half didn't get any easier.<\/p>\n The Blues scored within five minutes of the restart, then twice more inside the third quarter as the Brumbies frittered away their share of possession through poor handling.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportRugby\/status\/1781607588565860690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n "I think from the beginning of the season we've been building a lot, and coming out of the bye week we had to pick up where we left off," Sotutu said.<\/p>\n "We know that we can play the carry, clean game really well and we knew with the weather it was going to be a strong point."<\/p>\n The Brumbies should have scored in the sixth minute when winger Ollie Sapsford was given space in a one on one with his Blues marker but was tackled.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportRugby\/status\/1781584580165689489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n Blues halfback Taufa Funaki was sinbinned in the course of the movement but, in a turning point in the match, Sotutu scored his first try while the Blues were down a man.<\/p>\n Clarke ran off his left wing to score as first receiver from a five metre scrum in the 32nd minute, then Sotutu completed his double just before halftime and after a period of chaos for the Brumbies.<\/p>\n Sapsford knocked on a kick from Cole Forbes in front of his own goal line.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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