Bobas
Such a good Brumbies team, you can even see their superiority on paper. Do I really even need to list the wallaby stars or debate further? We didn’t even need Mortlock (injured) or a coach (awaiting contract termination) to score SEVEN tries in the final, SEVEN! Reds supporters don’t usually have that many original teeth, let alone current positive members! [There’s Reg and like five others]. Five tries inside the first 17 minutes of the game, 33-0 up and game Brumbies. We were the only team that could have done that to a Crusaders that was so star studded they had Merthans on the bench. A certain G. Smith beat a young Ruchie McCaw so badly he knew he couldn’t catch up to parity on talent alone so resorted to cheating for the rest of his career.
The Brumbies ’04 line-up has class everywhere, so good that if any one of them wanted to, they could have started for the Reds almost a decade later. Radike proved this! He just rocked up to training one day, overweight, hadn’t played for years and they said, ‘the final is on Saturday, which jersey would you like to run on in?’. As for Shepherdson, he chose the finishing role, who would want to pack next to a hooker with dreads anyway, gross.
I harped on about the seven tries earlier, but seven is precisely the number of PENALTIES the Waratahs had to kick in order to JUST win [they should be renamed the New South England Waratahs]. They didn’t even score more tries than the other team! A hollow championship to say the least, completely reliant on a store-bought back row developed mostly at the Brumbies by the way and don’t even get me started on their ‘favourite son’, Adam Ashley Cooper (AAC), who scored BOTH their tries in the final. AAC who mind you STILL has more caps (78-61) and points (70-68) for the Brumbies. [68 points for the tahs? do they have him kicking penalties too!] My last and most scathing point when comparing the Brumbies and Waratahs sides, is that both lost their respective regular season captains to injury for the final, Mortlock and Dennis. Had both been available the Waratahs would have lost, where as we Brumbies would have pushed triple figures.
To conclude, the Brumbies ’04 championship team was so superior that years later washed up players from it made the Reds championship team and the Waratahs victory in ’14 was so hollow that its a real stretch to even call them a ‘championship side’, which is why they got cider instead of champagne afterwards.
