Any spectators / sideline experts at the Brothers vs UQ trials care to report in?
yep spent a lovely afternoon in the sun watching a raft of live rugga.
Most grades had some game time at Crosby road. The lower grades had regular rotations.
The No 1's game was made up of 6 x 20 minute stanzas. 2 separate teams who play 3 stanzas each. Teams were evenly mixed up of prems and reggies players.
Standard was pretty good given first hit out. Not a lot of dropped ball which was surprising. Strong commitment to the collision by both teams with some heavy tackles and robust clean outs.
Didnt appear to be any serious injuries so all coaches should be happy
Both sides had solid scrums that will obviously improve.
I think it ended up 3 or 4 tries to each team so pretty even.
Ref was very good at getting the game to flow (thankfully as it was a trial).
Players that drew some attention
Mosiah Christenson, Brad Kappa and Brothers outside centre (sorry not known to me)
Alec Davies (short cameo off the bench), Jake Tierney, Connor Rous and Mac Grealy were all very solid in their positions.
Plenty of others too that were putting in for their coaches given the heat.