MELBOURNE AND MOORABBIN - HAROLD MITCHELL CUPThe first half of the season for the Dewar Shield has been completed. The top two sides are undefeated Melbourne and Moorabbin who came through to grab 2nd place with a percentage boosting win over Boroondara. South’s, which had held 2nd place up to Round 8, lost to Melbourne, narrowly missing out on a bonus point which would have retained 2nd place for them.Melbourne and Moorabbin will now compete for the Harold Mitchell Cup, which is the half-way Premiership, to be played as the Curtain Raiser to the Rebels v Reds match at AAMI Park on Friday 29 June. This the second year of the Harold Mitchell Cup, named after the Chairman of the Melbourne Rebels, who will be present to present the Trophy to the winning team. In 2011 Melbourne defeated Harlequin in a tremendous game to be the inaugural winner.The Harold Mitchell Cup match remains a competition match and it brings together the two teams as part of the fixturing for the second half of the season. To allow this to proceed the VRU will switch Round 11 with Round 14 for all matches in each grade. Moorabbin will host Melbourne in the lower grades on Saturday 30 June
ROUND 10 23 June
Sth Districts v Box Hill
Harlequin v Boroondara
End Hills v Melbourne
Moorabbin v Footscray
Melb Uni v Pw House
Position Team P W D L F A BP PTS %
1st Melbourne 9 9 0 0 368 118 9 45 311.86
2nd Moorabbin 9 6 0 3 236 173 6 30 136.42
3rd Southern Districts 9 6 1 2 212 163 4 30 130.06
4th Halrequin 9 4 1 4 282 175 7 25 161.14
5th Footscray 9 5 0 4 224 177 5 25 126.55
6th Power House 9 4 0 5 174 181 5 21 96.13
7th Endeavour Hills 9 4 0 5 196 257 4 20 76.26
8th Box Hill 9 3 0 6 178 249 2 14 71.49
9th Boroondara 9 2 0 7 168 315 4 12 53.33
10th Melbourne Uni 9 1 0 8 114 344 2 6 33.14
Melbourne still undefeated.
Definitely a case of playing for the finals spots and hoping Melbourne trip up. What seems to be a bit of an issue at the moment for them is teams are staying with them for longer and longer in the games and then only when the need to are they lifting the tempo and one week they might leave it too late.Do you think it is a case of playing for finals and hoping Melbourne have an off day? Or go the way of their 2nds last season? Honestly they are well and above the group.
2nd - 7th are all capable of beating each other (see Footscray v Moorabbin result) and it'll be a race for ladder spots to get home games for finals. Uni are playing for.? Boorondara will scare teams and BH look to be slipping of the peloton. Endeavour have a few tough games coming up, might determine whether or not they stay in the hunt.
Definitely a case of playing for the finals spots and hoping Melbourne trip up. What seems to be a bit of an issue at the moment for them is teams are staying with them for longer and longer in the games and then only when the need to are they lifting the tempo and one week they might leave it too late.
Would you call it relegation? More like restructuring.Let's hope it the GF they slip up.not many are fans of hearing that song sung so often on GF day! In any case the gap is closing, you can only have so many good players at the one club and themost of the clubs are picking up players that are able to compete.
Are the VRU serious about relegation? If so Uni could be in serious trouble. 1 win this season and players looking elsewhere already I'd imagine.
Would you call it relegation? More like restructuring.
It may or may not be a good thing for Division 2 when you think about it.
@vicrugbyrefs for the VRRAAnyone know clubs that have active twitter accounts, post scores/news etc.
A few I know:
- @MelUnicorns
- @elthamrufc
- @harlequinrugby
- @MURFC (Not active)
Position Team P W D L F A BP PTS %
1 Melbourne 11 11 0 0 420 143 10 54 293.71%
2 Harlequin 11 6 1 4 370 231 9 35 160.17%
3 Southern Districts 11 7 1 3 251 200 5 35 125.50%
4 Footscray 11 7 0 4 290 195 6 34 148.72%
5 Moorabbin 11 6 0 5 250 202 7 31 123.76%
6 Power House 11 5 0 6 222 209 7 27 106.22%
7 Endeavour Hills 11 5 0 6 236 317 5 25 74.45%
8 Box Hill 11 4 0 7 211 282 3 19 74.82%
9 Boroondara 11 2 0 9 207 416 4 12 49.76%
10 Melbourne Uni 11 1 0 10 152 414 4 8 36.71%
ROUND 12 7 July
Boroondara v Box Hill
Harlequin v Sth Districts
Footscray v Melbourne
Pwr House v End Hills
Melb Uni v Moorabbin
Game of the round this week will definitely be either Footscray v Melbourne or Quins v Souths.