Great game between the Brumbies and the Waratahs. The Brumbies won 21-11. I predicted the Brumbies would win by 5 on SuperBru. I was a bit surprised that a lot of players in our Champions League pool had predicted the Waratahs would win this one. I guess their thinking was that the Waratahs are a better team than the Brumbies this season. Fair enough but today it was not the Waratahs team we had seen in the previous games. The Brumbies were inspired and aggressive today. They really wanted to win. Why I called a Brumbies win was simple: the Brumbies had a bye last week and thus they were fresh for todays game and you could see it in the way they played that these Brumbies guys were fresh and hungry for the win.
Most of us got to know the Brumbies in the days of Gregan and Larkham and how that Brumbies team would go through dozens of phases before scoring. There were glimpses of that in todays game and it kinda looked like the Brumbies of old. I still believe that the Waratahs are Australia’s best team in the Super 14 bust today they just did not show up.
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Guru says:
Mar 13, 2009
I must say that i am very suprised because while i expected the Brumbies to front up and put up a fight, i never thought their tight 5 was good enough to feed their backs with good ball. I picked the Waratahs by 6 simply because i figured that it would come down to kicking and thought Beale would be better than Lealiiifano, which is exactly the opposite as i read that Beale missed 3 goalable penalties. From a S14 perspective though, this is good because it throws open the fight for semi-final spots as the Brumbies are right back into the mix while the Tahs are obviously still very much in the top 3 spots.
Ron says:
Mar 13, 2009
Beale was terrible!! I have not seen a worse kicking performance for goal since a couple of years back when Percy was kicking for the Boks for goal at test level and his kicks were grubbers!!!!