A subbies rugby crowd can't expect to 'support' for 80 minutes (plenty of verbal abuse) and then get their knickers in a knot when someone waves goodbye to them when they've won the game. To me, that's a good bit of harmless back and forth between both parties. Belting the bloke when he's got his arm extended to shake your hand is making something verbal and good natured physical, so to me at least, that's where the line was crossed.
100%, if you want to interact with the players and dish out some banter from the sidelines you have to take your licks if the result does not go your way.
I mean, flipping off the Pats crowd right in front of a Pats player and then going to shake his hand… you gotta expect that exchange to not go well.
And certainly some of the worst
I’d be surprised if we dont see them back in div 1 in a couple of years. Would ne so good for comp to see a strong Penrith in subbies again.
I wonder what this will mean for Blue Mountains if Penrith start to grow again. There success hasn’t been due to Penrith not being there but they have benefited from being the only side in the area. It happens in the East so no reason why we can’t have to big Div 1 clubs in the West close to each other
Was going to tip 5-0 sweep to Newport this week but I see they’ve gone off early celebrating a well earned club championship. So I’ll go a split with Pats getting the win in 2s and Colts. Interestingly if Newport loose Colts they could find themselves dropping to third and being jumped by Uni.
Interesting game scheduled. You’d have to think clubs may be scared to play uni in the final, on their day they can flog any team in the comp. Will be interesting though how they go if they get there. Seams the likely teams they’ll face is either briars or hills - the two teams they didn’t beat. Think a Newport uni final would be the best best option for the comp - always a great fixture full of passion and recent history. Uni will be watching closely this weekend.