BRUMBIES BEAT THE LIONS

Duffbowl said :

Gismondo said :

Looking towards the 2025 clash and i think the powers that be need to consider putting the brumbies up aginst the ‘A’ side on a weekend as a full dress rehearsal for the tests. the brumbies 1-1 record (42 points apiece) demands it whilst the waratahs were once again just not up to the challenge last weekend.

While I would love to see a weekend Brumbies v Lions game, while we have a stadium capacity of ~25000, I don’t think it will happen.

By 2025 we’d have the new indoor stadium, not sure the capacity, but suspect a max of 30,000

Gismondo said :

Looking towards the 2025 clash and i think the powers that be need to consider putting the brumbies up aginst the ‘A’ side on a weekend as a full dress rehearsal for the tests. the brumbies 1-1 record (42 points apiece) demands it whilst the waratahs were once again just not up to the challenge last weekend.

While I would love to see a weekend Brumbies v Lions game, while we have a stadium capacity of ~25000, I don’t think it will happen.

Proud to be a cold brumbies fan last night.
Now time to kick on and win the championship flap

Great night, the crowd certainly sensed the historic nature of the looming upset and the last 90 sec were very vocal.

Looking towards the 2025 clash and i think the powers that be need to consider putting the brumbies up aginst the ‘A’ side on a weekend as a full dress rehearsal for the tests. the brumbies 1-1 record (42 points apiece) demands it whilst the waratahs were once again just not up to the challenge last weekend.

I heard rubbish about the Lions being understrength, but seriously so were the brumbies and lets face it an understrength Lions is still better than say an individual Scotland, England, Wales or Irish test side.

Then again the Waratahs and the Reds got the big weekend games and the Waratahs played poorly. Though the Brumbies will probably always be the younger sibling compared to NSW and Qld, regardless of the Waratahs hype and matching dissapointment each year.

Congratulations to the Brumbies, you were the better side. Almost made me wish I hadn’t worn my full Lions supporting get up.

Still even though my home country lost, my home side won.

Trebles all round.

ESPN has a nice story about the game:

http://www.espnscrum.com/lions-tour-2013/rugby/story/186493.html

My Irish born boss who normally lives in London and is out here for 6 months was at that match.

🙂

Deeply satisfying – and here we were thinking that this afternoon’s substantial precipitation would favour the Lions.

Great game to go and watch! I mean, the kicking was a bit dull, but it was a great crowd. Although I wish I could have seen the face of the smarmy pom who told me on the bus there we were going to be crushed. Revenge is a dish best served cold. IN SO MANY WAYS.

I nearly chickened out because I thought it would rain. So glad I didn’t.