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Nev Cottrell (35)
Another try to Joeys to the right of the upright by No 5. Too much ball, too fast at breakdown. Kings doing their best but well outgunned. Joeys 31 Kings 7 with 20 to go. Could get big.
Barker won the 2nds 17/03rds Newington def Barker 5 tries to 2
2nds Newington def Barker 17-0
1sts Barker def Newington 63-14
I'm not so sure about your analysis here. Certainly my observations of someone who had a son in Years 7 and 8 during the last 2 years of the previous DOR, was that he was interested in the whole age group. In those years we had the same number of teams as other schools so we matched up As to Fs all the way down, so there was no question about playing lower grade teams to achieve results and we won most games every week.
Obviously in the higher ages where Newington may have had less teams that the opposition then, it's not unusual that the lowest Newington team would play the lowest team from another school even though one might be C or D and the other might be F or G. It's a situation which continues, the purpose of which is to reduce mismatches which benefit neither the team which wins by 50 or the team which loses by 50.
Possibly you are also unaware of the situation regarding the current 5ths, where the DOR has allowed a group of Year 12 boys to select their own team (even though quite a few should be playing 3rds or 4ths). This weakens the 3rds and 4ths and will prove an issue later on I suspect when the GPS starts and when TAS combine with Newington, which means that the Newington 5ths often play the 8ths or 9ths of other schools.
Additionally, both of the Prep schools have their own Sportsmaster and rugby coaches, so any "involvement" of the current DOR would be largely PR and box ticking rather than having any real impact. My son went to one of the preps and there was no particular need for the DOR to do anything.
Barker won the 2nds 17/0
I heard on grspevine 31/21 to View but Scots played a man down for last 15 min due to a redAnyone manage to catch Riverview vs Scots today? All I know is that the Wolfpack was victorious but I would like a rundown of the match please and thank you.
TME
News best were. 3 Tom Maclean. 14 Seluini Fakaosifolau who got no clean ball. The New scrum needs work. More often they were on roller skates on their own feed. Billy zdickens the 9 had a pretty decent game. His passes were direct and quick. Defence is a problem . Given they were a bigger team than Barker they just were not dominant at the tackle. I will say this they came up against a well coached and very fit Barker team who have some real class players. Let’s see how the season pans out for New. If they were missing some players from last weeks game against Waves that could be a factor.
News best were. 3 Tom Maclean. 14 Seluini Fakaosifolau who got no clean ball. The New scrum needs work. More often they were on roller skates on their own feed. Billy zdickens the 9 had a pretty decent game. His passes were direct and quick. Defence is a problem . Given they were a bigger team than Barker they just were not dominant at the tackle. I will say this they came up against a well coached and very fit Barker team who have some real class players. Let’s see how the season pans out for New. If they were missing some players from last weeks game against Waves that could be a factor.
Hi Rod, hope you are well rugby comrade,
Very surprised that this Barker team have some real class players, apart from Ned Slack Smith, who is tremendous!
All through the A age groups absolutely not the case, so what has suddenly changed, it's an astonishing turn around, I remember in the 15as, so not that long ago, Barker losing to Waves 81-0 at Barker on no 1 !
Suspect we will see next week v Joeys and v Riverview.
3 to go Joeys lead 50 to 12. Have seen enough.