Pfitzy
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Well Flash that was a controversial day to say the least.
Have to say your Seconds really surprised me - though I understand from Rohan that a few of those forwards we'd never seen before. That was always the weakness of the sides we've faced in the past: we'd win the game through set piece, tight five stuff and hit it up around the ruck. Our blokes were a throw-together and that's why we turned over so much ball.
First Grade as always was a fairly hardcore affair. I think the ref maybe should have gone to the pocket earlier to settle things down, and I must say our new captain didn't help things with his attitude toward the ref. The captain of the last two seasons was playing hooker and trying not to intervene.
Hopefully our blokes learned a lesson from this.
Have to say your Seconds really surprised me - though I understand from Rohan that a few of those forwards we'd never seen before. That was always the weakness of the sides we've faced in the past: we'd win the game through set piece, tight five stuff and hit it up around the ruck. Our blokes were a throw-together and that's why we turned over so much ball.
First Grade as always was a fairly hardcore affair. I think the ref maybe should have gone to the pocket earlier to settle things down, and I must say our new captain didn't help things with his attitude toward the ref. The captain of the last two seasons was playing hooker and trying not to intervene.
Hopefully our blokes learned a lesson from this.
); seconds went down 19-17 in a good game, our blokes came back strongly in the second half but couldn't kick goals to save themselves) 1sts went down 21 - 18 (which was a huge turnaround from our final game last year when we went down to them 100-odd to blot) in another great game. Think we will be much more competitive this year but think we will miss top four in the top two grades, thirds (if they stay together) should make the semis unless we see a turnaround and guys actually start to attend training regularly.
