Deans to watch Super Rugby front row fight While George Smith and Israel Folau have soaked up the lion's share of media for the Brumbies v Waratahs Super Rugby clash at Canberra this Saturday, coach Jake White believes it's the front-row battle that will pique Robbie Deans' interest. The combined Wallaby Test caps for each set of the front rows is exactly 123 games, with all six players contributing to that tally. "It's fantastic for Robbie Deans because it's almost like a Wallaby trial," White said at the captain's run on Friday. The most-capped Wallaby and Super Rugby player in the front row, hooker Stephen Moore, will scrum down opposite defence wrecking ball Tatafu Polota-Nau. Moore's workload around the park is prolific. Not only is he highly valued by White for his mistake-free consistency at the set pieces, but he ran the ball 24 times in his first two matches, 11 more times than Polota-Nau and the highest of any hooker so far this year. And while Polota-Nau's missile-like defence has reared him seven more tackles than Moore this season, he also leads the missed tackle count for hookers with six as opposed to Moore's clean slate. Meanwhile, the Brumbies' Dan Palmer, renowned as one of the most powerful scrummagers in the country, will also go up against stalwart loosehead Benn Robinson, who has made more tackle busts than any other prop this season. But it's not his ball-running that has White concerned. "Robinson is well known not only in Australia, but in the whole of the Super Rugby competition as being one of the best scrummagers," White said. So that will be a good contest. Slide back a couple of rows and you have the chalk and cheese battle between flanker David Pocock and his national team stand-in Michael Hooper. The bare basic statistics of the two in their first two matches highlight their different styles. Hooper has made 50 per cent more tackles and ball carries than Pocock this season. However, he hasn't yet made a pilfer or forced a turnover whereas Pocock has done so on five occasions. Two young flyers in the backline also worth keeping an eye on will be the Brumbies' Jesse Mogg and the Waratahs' Ben Volavola. Both fullbacks scored the try of their match against the Queensland Reds in weeks one and two, leading Volavola to push Folau out onto the wing and Mogg looking as though he will hold off the return of incumbent Wallabies inside centre and former fullback Pat McCabe. The Brumbies are solid favourites, having won their first two games this season and nine of their past 11 games against the Waratahs at home. If they win on Saturday night, it will be the first time the Canberra side have beaten their NSW rivals for three consecutive matches.