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Top 6 now finalised but the order still to be decided. Hurricanes have secured top spot and will get the week off. Waratahs front runners for 2nd spot. A win against the Reds with a bonus point seals it. Without a bonus point gives the Brumbies a chance to steal with a bonus point win over the...

Yeah most did OK. We sound like savants with a few and dunces with others as is the nature of analysing every team. It's hard enough to pick the top 6 in order now let alone at the start.

Pretty close comp this close to the end. Still a decent chance 2nd to 6th all finish on the same points (or within 1).

Yep that'll do it too. They need 5 this week to keep top spot in their control.

Pretty average game. Brumbies take the 5. Tahs now need 5 in Bloemfontain to keep top spot in the Aussie conference.

That'll do. 4 tries. Now take Speight off. Barely worth watching the rest. Tahs under pressure for top spot in the conference now.

Possibly just hard to take 3 scrum penalties when we should be dominant. See how it goes in the 2nd. Hope Speight is all good. If we get the 4th try early, I'd be wrapping him in cotton wool for the remainder.

Benny A was a liability that half. Otherwise pretty dominant from the Brumbies. Speight could be injured though. Limping all game.

Only just tuned in. WTF is going on here?? Highlanders could score 60 and lose this.

That'll be the focus this week because it doesn't get any easier and they can't win with another scrum performance like that. Sio is a potential band-aid on a bullet wound but couldn't hurt.

Stormers 25-24 in the end. Penalty count 20-5. Most in scrums. Pretty easy theme. If Brumbies learn to scrum, they're a 20+ point better team tonight. Until then, that's as close as they can possibly get to the Stormers.

More scrum penalties get the Stormers out of trouble. Same old tale tonight. Stormers on attack up 25-24 with a few mins left.

Brumbies try. Conversion hit post. Stormers 25-24. 10 left.

Stormers 22-16. Penalty count now 19-4. Most in scrums. Labouring the point but easily the most one-sided scrum/forwards contest of the year. Stormers have otherwise been appalling and Brumbies OK.

Stormers back to 16-15. 50 mins. Penalty count out to 13-4, over half in scrums, reflecting the complete forwards dominance of the Stormers. Brumbies looking more enterprising but just not in the forwards contest, especially in the scrums.

Interesting half. Brumbies 16-9 at the break. On the face of it the Stormers couldn't have played much worse and the Brumbies seem better. But the Stormers know every time they lose possession it is a net positive for them due to the inevitable scrum penalty that follows and that edge is keeping...

Stormers are missing a trick here. Every time they knock on they have a guaranteed scrum penalty as a result. The key for them is to keep losing the ball as much as possible and decimate the Brumbies with the inevitable scrum penalties.

Give it about 3 hours. But yeah talking on form not ladder position. 4th pick in NZ is about par with the best elsewhere atm. They're peaking in the right year.

It's a bit hard when the top 3 are all in the same conference.

All but wrapped up.