Brumbies will try different approach

Jake White has seen his Australian Super Rugby rivals try to unsettle the British & Irish Lions on this tour and earn plaudits for doing so, yet the Brumbies coach knows the bottom line is that all of them have failed.

So far. Today, the 2007 South Africa World Cup-winning coach pits his considerable experience against Warren Gatland’s latest Lions 15 at Canberra Stadium (10:30am Irish time) and while he knows it may be the first genuine midweek side of the tour, he knows ploughing the same furrow as the Queensland Reds and NSW Waratahs will not produce the upset victory he craves for his team.

The Reds, with Quade Cooper pulling the strings, tried to outrun the Lions in Brisbane 10 days ago but ran themselves into the ground in the process, while Michael Cheika’s Waratahs tried to beat the tourists into submission only to knock themselves out trying.