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I'll be there for what should be a cracking day of footy at Rat Park. Tipping Manly by 15+ in both 1sts and 2nds.
Lots of rumours but shortage of facts.
I thought he was the "buy" of the year after the early rounds.
Not sure why he was dropped to 2nds, but his form certainly fell away once he was in seconds IMO.
He's clearly too good a player to be playing subbies but the rumour is that he'll be back at Wests next year OR maybe he'll come back to the Wicks depending on who the coach is next year.
Great win to Gordon. Their back line was as slick as I have seen this year. Easts were clumsy in comparison. I can only assume injuries have plagued Gordon's season. Easts on the other hand don't seem to be able to pick a decent team even allowing for injuries. They occasionally win when one or two super 15 players return, but otherwise suck. What I don't get is the selection of the same players every week despite weak performances. Do the coaches know what they're doing? Did Bakewell leave because he could see the writing on the wall? Why is there the same 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 every week? Or the same 9?Dave, the boys gave us plenty to cheer about again on the weekend.. Firstly, our 2s played loosely but scored after the bell (16 phases) to bring up a bonus point win 26-25. By all accounts 1s trained bloody hard during the week - knowing that Easts had knocked off Manly the week before. Easts had a slim lead at halftime but the passes began to stick in the 2nd half just they like did against Norths. Some awesome tries and great performances from Jonno Broome, Jack Dempsey, Tom Matthews, Lucas Simkin and Matt McDougall gave us a 46-22 win. 5 wins for the year (one less that 6th-placed Parra) but a shocking lack of bonus points has us in 11th. 3 rounds to go. bring on 3 wins...
Great win to Gordon. Their back line was as slick as I have seen this year. Easts were clumsy in comparison. I can only assume injuries have plagued Gordon's season. Easts on the other hand don't seem to be able to pick a decent team even allowing for injuries. They occasionally win when one or two super 15 players return, but otherwise suck. What I don't get is the selection of the same players every week despite weak performances. Do the coaches know what they're doing? Did Bakewell leave because he could see the writing on the wall? Why is there the same 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 every week? Or the same 9?
Looking goodPredicting a huge crowd at rat park this Saturday. Wouldn't it be great if it got to 2005 SS final numbers.
For Gordon Matthews has been outstanding the last few rounds if he keeps going he would have to be on rep selectors radar's.
Simkin has done well since coming back and Dempsey has displayed why he is so highly rated.
Will be interesting to see what they do with Broome returning next season as Dempsey would be a 7 in professional set up I believe and Broome is very short and only really a 7.
Or are Easts problems partially due to their coach's departure after a few rounds?
Is my memory failing me or is this not the second time Bakewell has left mid-season?
@Spewn, Just done the Round 15 Stats. I'll have a lash at checking out the player turn over in the Beastie piggies later in the week.