Super Rugby Pacific live updates: Blues v Brumbies

The Blues head into tonight’s Super Rugby Pacific semi-final as favourites with good reason, they finished the regular season in second spot and haven’t lost at home in 2024.

The Brumbies have had a win on this side of the Tasman recently but will need to pull out their best to cause an upset and make it through to next weekend’s final.

Kick-off is at 7:05pm NZT.

Follow all the action with RNZ’s live blog:

Team lists

Blues: 1 Ofa Tu’ungafasi, 2 Ricky Riccitelli, 3 Marcel Renata, 4 Sam Darry, 5 Josh Beehre, 6 Akira Ioane, 7 Dalton Papali’i (c), 8 Hoskins Sotutu, 9 Finlay Christie, 10 Harry Plummer, 11 Caleb Clarke, 12 AJ Lam, 13 Rieko Ioane, 14 Mark Tele’a, 15 Stephen Perofeta

Bench: 16 Kurt Eklund, 17 Joshua Fusitu’a, 18 Angus Ta’avao, 19 James Thompson, 20 Adrian Choat, 21 Taufa Funaki, 22 Corey Evans, 23 Cole Forbes

Brumbies: 15 Tom Wright, 14 Andy Muirhead, 13 Len Ikitau, 12 Tamati Tua, 11 Corey Toole, 10 Noah Lolesio, 9 Ryan Lonergan, 8 Charlie Cale, 7 Rory Scott, 6 Rob Valetini, 5 Tom Hooper, 4 Darcy Swain, 3 Allan Alaalatoa (c), 2 Billy Pollard, 1 James Slipper

Bench: 16 Liam Bowron, 17 Rhys van Nek, 18 Sosefo Kautai, 19 Nick Frost, 20 Jahrome Brown, 21 Luke Reimer, 22 Harrison Goddard, 23 Ollie Sapsford