Norths are the big offender sin regards to contestant scrums but the worst part is they have the cattle (size & ability wise) to do it but they refuse. Worst part is that there second grade team is in final contention so what happens when they try to pull the same swifty come semis?
Wow what a diabolical state of affairs with word on the street the Breakers governing body Rugby Gold coast being disbanded or something to that effect. Sully do you have the inside word??? Apparently the QRU are taking over now??? Anyway til they sort out the back room on field results will continue to suffer until someone gets the ship ship shape. Coach Nowlan will enjoy going from hero to zero with current riff raff he has to work with at the minute - bloody shambles!
Norths actually contested scrums in every game against GPS on the weekend. They looked pretty handy as well with a good contest at the set piece.
Watching down at Yoku Rd this year the only club who hasn't been able to field contested scrums in every grade so far has been Easts who managed to contest in 4th grade but then failed to contest in both 3rd and 2nd grade which I find quite strange. I would think the policy would be that props play the highest they can in order to have contested scrums in higher grades. I know Easts are a strong club and in the past haven't had this issue but it was a rather odd occurance. I actually recongized one of the 4th grade props as a former premier grade prop from a few years back so I would have thought he could handle playing a few grades higher.
Yep looks interesting here EOA, a couple of Clubs have games in hand (I know we have one against Souths), so going to be good second round to season as everyone tries to line up for top 4.Meanwhile in Reserve Grade. There is just 6 points between 3rd place and 7th place. Still 8 games to go, but every other grade only has 5 teams with a realistic shot at top 4.
For the first time since I've been playing grades and colts Easts have not been able to field enough props for all the grades in the last 3 weeks. This is more to do with the attrition rate of our props in prem grade. One of the props who has been playing prems the last few weeks played a number of games in 3rd grade until recently. Prems have used 6 props this year, reserve grade have used another 2 ontop of those 6. Which has left us really struggling.
Pettowa has a niggle but might come off the bench, the Cox boys are out, Bermingham is injured and not sure if Buttler will start. He might do what Enever did last week and play 30 minutes (apparently you can't play anymore then this if you played a game the day before),
Matt Brandon is a massive loss, and it looks like Shannon Walker picked up an injury aswell. But Easts still should have enough fire power out wide to win this one comfortably.
I'm undecided whether I should go to Sylvann Rd or Chipsy Wood this week, any suggestions?
I've heard that Dallan Murphy is out with a knee injury. I wonder whether the coach would consider his brother at 10?
Hope Matt Brandon only has a niggle as he is crucial to East's fortunes. Perhaps the young bloke UJ will get some time there?
I've heard that Dallan Murphy is out with a knee injury. I wonder whether the coach would consider his brother at 10?