Scott Fardy bristling for silver lining to long season with Leinster

Scott Fardy has clearly had it with close shaves.

For six seasons, the Aussie with the sprawling facial hair was part of a Brumbies side that scrambled to reach the summit of Super Rugby only for their efforts to end time and again in defeat once the air began to thin.

His first campaign with the Canberra-based club, in 2012, ended with a seventh-placed finish in the overall table — just one step below the play-off places. A year later and the Chiefs deprived them of the title in a decider in Hamilton.