Whilst not reading too much into the pair of victories, ACT Brumbies coach Stephen Larkham believes the club is preparing nicely for their Super Rugby Pacific opener against the NSW Waratahs on February 24.

The Brumbies survived a valiant effort from the Melbourne Rebels to secure the 35-33 win in Wagga Wagga.

It's the second week in a row the ACT-based club have held on late for victory after holding off a late charge from the NSW Waratahs in Griffith.

“We stuck in there. The most pleasing thing from our perspective is the amount of composure the players had on the field,” Larkham said after the match.

“Even when things went wrong, we stuck to our principles and worked our way back into the game.

“...We don’t really read too much into the trials at the Brumbies. We’ve got a number of players who have never played for the club on the field in these last two weeks

“I think we’ve had really good preparation into these two weeks. I would say our execution is off a little bit from where it needs to be but we know that we’ve got a couple of weeks to sharpen up.

The presence of their Wallabies contingency helped change the game, headlined by a double from Len Ikitau.

The centre scored twice in ten minutes, spinning through multiple tacklers to score before running the perfect line to seal the win.

He was amongst several scheduled to miss both trials, only to be cleared late after receiving special clearance from Rugby Australia to get valuable minutes before their opening clash in a fortnight.

“It was pleasing for those guys to get out there," Larkham admits.

“They spoke to me after the game last week about getting some minutes. They were pretty keen to get out there and feel the intensity of a live game

“…That’s exactly what we wanted to do, Lenny (Ikitau) can take a lot of confidence with a couple of nice carries and two tries…it’s hard to come into Super Rugby without any trial time and I think that’s going to allow those guys to have a lot more confidence heading into round one.”