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Just how much of a toll does game day travel take?
The question has been posed around Canberra's football circles for months with the Canberra Raiders spending what felt like an eternity on the road to comply with the NRL's biosecurity measures.
Now the Brumbies find themselves in a similar position, having done so with a bus up and back to Sydney to face the Waratahs at Sydney Olympic Park on Saturday.
It mattered little in the end as the visitors walked away with a thrilling one-point triumph thanks to a late Issak Fines try.
Brumbies coach Dan McKellar will likely rubbish the travel as a possible excuse for their hapless start against their bitter interstate rivals - because they will do it all again for a clash with the Western Force at Leichhardt Oval next weekend.
MORE BRUMBIES
"We were faced with a different challenge today, travelling up on a bus for four hours on game day is not something you do as professional players," McKellar said.
"I thought the opposition were really good and we managed to grind out a win which we're pleased with.
"We'll be on the bus shortly and get home at about 2am. Monday will be a light week, but as Al said, we've got to do the same for the Force game. We know at least have an understanding of what it looks like."
A SLICE OF HISTORY
Joe Roff? Stirling Mortlock? Henry Speight? They might be the leading try scorers in Brumbies history, but even they can't lay claim to Folau Fainga'a's new slice of history.
"The boys give it to me if I don't score them," Brumbies hooker Fainga'a once said about his try-scoring exploits.
Then it should come as little surprise Fainga'a became the first Brumby to score tries in six consecutive games - a feat achieved only once before in Super Rugby, by Malcolm Marx.
THAT'S GOLD
If you can't score tries at the Olympic Games, crossing the line at Sydney Olympic Park might just be the next best thing.
Tom Cusack should be in Tokyo preparing to launch a bid for Olympic gold with the Australian sevens rugby squad right now.
Instead he found himself opening the scoring for the ACT Brumbies in their pulsating 24-23 win over the NSW Waratahs at Sydney Olympic Park in Homebush on Saturday night.
The Brumbies flanker had initially planned to juggle Brumbies duties with his Olympic ambitions before the Games, originally slated to begin on July 24, were rescheduled to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 27-year-old first made a name for himself in sevens and was named in the Rio Olympic all-star side before switching to Super Rugby.