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Allen Oxlade (6)
Your thoughts on the last Barker try Rod?
CAS Rugby 2023
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Herbert Moran (7)
Well played Waves. I've watched them play a few games this year and they have improved dramatically since the Newington game.
I don't want to bag Knox, but for a team that has so many CAS 1st and state players, they were 'bang' average today. The redhead flanker and the outside centre were outstanding but the rest didn't do a lot. But, that's the first time I've watched them play so maybe they had an off day.
I don't want to bag Knox, but for a team that has so many CAS 1st and state players, they were 'bang' average today. The redhead flanker and the outside centre were outstanding but the rest didn't do a lot. But, that's the first time I've watched them play so maybe they had an off day.
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Billy Sheehan (19)
Yes very upset!
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Billy Sheehan (19)
Agree 777, the Knox 7 and 13 were terrific but what people didn't know was that this Waves age has never lost a CAS game all through the ages, and it was only numerous injuries v Newington and View etc, and until recently, that camouflaged their ability.
The CAS selections are nearly always a joke because of agendas.
Waves won all ages, except the 16as, and a clean sweep in the 1sts, 2nds and 3rds.
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Peter Burge (5)
Cranbrook were unlucky not to achieve this feat with 4th through to 2nds beating barker quite convincingly. Interesting how barker class themselves as a rugby school when they have less depth than teams such as Cranbrook.
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Herbert Moran (7)
If I want to cheer myself up this week I will go back and read all your posts from the past few days.
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Billy Sheehan (19)
Trinity 47 Aloys 25.
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Ted Fahey (11)
Congratulations to waverly. Well deserved
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Desmond Connor (43)
Look in my view the ref had a average game. And Cranbrook in the main were the beneficiary of those 50/50 calls. The last Barker try looked completely fair at live speed. Just because Cranbrook do not contest a lineout does not automatically mean the Barker lineout is creating a shepherd. The Barker lineout catcher was the leading player in the drive. This is not a shepherd. The fact that the ref called it as such confused me. How the touch got involved was not clear to me. All in all Cranbrook played a very good game and Barkers execution was terrible. Barkers scrum dominance just did not parlay into points. To many errors against a Cranbrook team that played an expansive game and took their chances. I think the Barker coach will need to go back to the drawing board. A bit like Eddie Jones with the Wobblies. Barker certainly had the wobblies today.
I think the Knox coaches will rue the direction not to take penalties. By my count it was probably twelve gettable penalties that Knox kicked to the sidelines.
Only for the forwards not to score.
Waverley forwards did very well on the try line.
Waverley backs definitely looked better with a number of line breaks and turnovers. They were also very quick in getting up to the line in defence and disrupting the rhythm for Knox which resulted in quite a few missed passes.
Only for the forwards not to score.
Waverley forwards did very well on the try line.
Waverley backs definitely looked better with a number of line breaks and turnovers. They were also very quick in getting up to the line in defence and disrupting the rhythm for Knox which resulted in quite a few missed passes.
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Ted Fahey (11)
To me it looks like a young team that aren’t trusting their abilities and playing within themselves. Interested to hear others opinions
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Desmond Connor (43)
Barker are a young team. That said Cranbrook just played a really good game without a dominant forward pack and capitalised on Barkers errors and poor positional reads.
Congrats to Waves on winning the comp.
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Frank Row (1)
This aged well You really know your stuff
Learn to spell Waverley
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Frank Nicholson (4)
Recent news has surfaced as the linesman that overturned the refs decision from a Cranbrook penalty to a Barker try was the Barker hookers father (Keegan Daly, 2).
In my opinion, this is not acceptable for a match of such high calibre. Surely this says something about the consistency of CAS rugby, this is a first XV game that is being co-reffed by dads and associates of the home school…
You don’t need an earpiece to understand this.
In my opinion, this is not acceptable for a match of such high calibre. Surely this says something about the consistency of CAS rugby, this is a first XV game that is being co-reffed by dads and associates of the home school…
You don’t need an earpiece to understand this.