Very impressive effort by New in the 1st XV against Shore yesterday.
Particularly given they had 5 starters out - 2 starting props, Lock, Captain and No 8, Makasini plus lost a prop inside 10 mins.
Some highly peculiar refereeing too. Sent No 10 Jarryd King to sin bin for a hip drop tackle. Now that's illegal in the other code, and should be in ours (just ask Max Jorgensen) but it isn't illegal at the moment. So bizarre how a referee can send someone off with a yellow card for something that isn't actually illegal. He also had some strange scrum interpretations. So to win despite the loss of 6 players plus some bizarre refereeing in such a manner was hugely impressive.
Starting No 8, Hunter Hall, standing in for Simmons the skip is a big lump of a lad currently in Year 10. Scored a great try and was very physical.
Good wins for 2nd grade and 16As. The 16Bs game was feisty. Two shore kids got sin binned. The behaviour of them and their parents left a lot to be desired. One New kid also found his way to the bin. Hopefully the return fixture doesn't see a repeat of such unsavoury behaviour.
Overall a good day out and looking forward to Thursday hosting Kings
Simmons likely to still be out but hoping Scheck and Viliamu might be available. I believe Makasini didn't play because he was injured this time, rather than because he played in a league game like what happened in Round 1. Hopefully Kupu is back at lock as Muir the other lock went ofd injured so not sure he'll play Thursday.
Particularly given they had 5 starters out - 2 starting props, Lock, Captain and No 8, Makasini plus lost a prop inside 10 mins.
Some highly peculiar refereeing too. Sent No 10 Jarryd King to sin bin for a hip drop tackle. Now that's illegal in the other code, and should be in ours (just ask Max Jorgensen) but it isn't illegal at the moment. So bizarre how a referee can send someone off with a yellow card for something that isn't actually illegal. He also had some strange scrum interpretations. So to win despite the loss of 6 players plus some bizarre refereeing in such a manner was hugely impressive.
Starting No 8, Hunter Hall, standing in for Simmons the skip is a big lump of a lad currently in Year 10. Scored a great try and was very physical.
Good wins for 2nd grade and 16As. The 16Bs game was feisty. Two shore kids got sin binned. The behaviour of them and their parents left a lot to be desired. One New kid also found his way to the bin. Hopefully the return fixture doesn't see a repeat of such unsavoury behaviour.
Overall a good day out and looking forward to Thursday hosting Kings
Simmons likely to still be out but hoping Scheck and Viliamu might be available. I believe Makasini didn't play because he was injured this time, rather than because he played in a league game like what happened in Round 1. Hopefully Kupu is back at lock as Muir the other lock went ofd injured so not sure he'll play Thursday.