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- ↑ "Plus500 Brumbies Finalise 2020 Super Rugby Squad" (Press release). Brumbies. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ↑ "Youthful Brumbies squad named for 2020 Super Rugby season". Rugby Pass. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
