Super Rugby: Brumbies Ready For ‘Conservative’ Cheetahs

by Paul Cook - Was Jake White trying to lure the Cheetahs into a trap ahead of today’s Super Rugby Qualifying Final when he stated during the week that the South Africans weren’t as expansive and fluidly attacking a side as most people believe? Like Bob Dwyer baiting England ahead of the 1991 World Cup Final by labelling them as ‘boring’ and reaping the benefits when the English bit firmly on the hook, went away from their rigid, but successful, structures and were left ruing a failed attempt to let the ball sing, White quashed any idea of the Cheetahs being the tournament’s ‘entertainers’. “There's this perception, it's funny how it works, that certain teams score a lot of tries and they run from everywhere,” he said. “It's not the case at all. I think they are probably one of the most conservative teams in
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