A New Coach for the Brumbies

I didn’t say they were good, I said they were popular.

nah, you’re all idiots. The choir was shit and I’ll hear no arguments otherwise. Maybe if they did a little dance routine/try celebration ala the Toohey’s New ads there’d be some entertainment value….

Totally agree! Bring back the rugby choir!!

Also agree on VicePope’s thoughts on the curtain raiser game – get one of 1st grade club (or school boy) games for the week moved to Canberra stadium as the warm up.

Hear, hear for the choir. They were ok in quality, but they probably meant a lot in terms of male bonding type stuff. Said a lot about rugby culture (you know, what we had before things were commercial, the game was a “product”, the players were

And, really, the curtainraiser games. Do better. Put on a good local club match or even some schoolboy stuff with meaning (Eddies/Marist?). Please. And maybe avoid the endless hour plus between the end of the curtainraiser and the beginning of the main game.

Like them or not…the choir was popular & was unique to Canberra/The Brumbies. They were part of what made The Brumbies *ours* & the more of these things they stop allowing, the further removed from their supporters the team becomes.

kennardly, the rugby choir was always terrible and I for one was glad to see it go. Even Brumby Jack’s inane antics are substantially less cringe-worthy.

But I agree with other posters on the Nucifora debacle. Anyone here have any inside knowledge on the case? I always assumed it was related to a personality clash with some the big stars who have now retired…

I can neither confirm nor deny the “Paddle Pop Lion” thing but having onve packed into a scrum with the “Lord” I can vouch for the fact that he has a rough tongue …

Hurray, someone with normal hair!

The ex’s kid once said Laurie looked like the Paddle Pop Lion. There *is* an uncanny resemblance. I was forced to admit that I had never seen them together in the same place.

Yeah, and hasn’t Nucifora had such a huge impact on the rugby world since he left Canberra.

Blues fans are baying for his blood!

I agree totally with you guys about the “mistakes” made 4 years ago.

When Rob “the business man” Clarke came in as CEO, he removed “ACT” from the Brumbies name, stopped the rugby choir from performing on the field before the game and totally mishandled the Nucifora non-resigning. Little things like this have had a great impact.

I think Fisher is probably a good coach but Macqueen, Jones and Nucifora were imaginative and adventurous and they never made excuses like: “well its a defensive game now and so we have to play it that way” (Fisher in 2006). Then he finally realised in 2007 that bonus points were actually critical.

I’m excited about the new signing anyway and keeping Fisher as forwards coach is a good result.