The loss would come as a crushing blow to the playoff aspirations of the Bulls who now need to win their final two games and hope other results go their way to progress further in the competition.
“It was a battle the whole game. You have to give credit to the Brumbies tonight for pulling it through, we just had too many mistakes and we couldn’t convert our chances,” said Spies after the game.
Top of the SA conference two weeks ago, the Bulls now find themselves in third behind the Lions also on 36 points. In the overall log the Bulls occupy ninth place as their two losses in a row have seen a plummet down the table.
The Bulls lacked anything close to imagination on attack as they carried the ball 70 times in the encounter but made just 62 passes.
Spies, however, maintained the men from Pretoria tried to change their game to some extent.
“You never know when it will work or not, we had to try and differentiate our game a little bit and we didn’t get the reward we wanted tonight,” said Spies.
