The CA Brumbies have signed Wallabies hooker Stephen Moore for the 2009 season. The 25 year old joins the CA Brumbies from the Queensland Reds, where he made his Super Rugby debut in 2003.

Winger Afusipa Taumoepeau has been selected to make his run-on debut for the CA Brumbies against the Bulls in their Investec Super 14 Week 13 match at Pretoria’s Loftus Versfeld on Friday night. The 18-year-old’s promotion to the starting line-up is one of five changes with John Ulugia, Guy Shepherdson, Mitchell Chapman and Joshua Holmes all returning to the run-on side.

Three Brumbies Rugby representatives – Peter Betham, Tetera Faulkner and Seilala Lam – have been selected in the 26-man Australian squad to compete at the inaugural iRB Junior World Championship to be held in Wales in June. The squad, that features an astonishing 10 players with Super 14 experience, also includes Waratahs regulars Kurtley Beale and Rob Horne, the Reds’ Quade Cooper and Will Genia and the Force’s Sam Wykes and David Pocock.