Author: 22metri

Diego Ghirardi is a rugby fanatic from Italy, living in Los Angeles. Played on the wing, now mainly couch flanker or sideline halfback. Enjoys writing in broken English, which should be read in a Franco Cozzo accent to render it more original.

In a one sided game at Ashwood Reserve, Harlequins trash Melbourne Uni The students lost their feeble hope to make the play off with their home loss against Footscray last week. Today they demonstrate that they are not yet at the level required to compete against the best in the tournament. After a decent start, where Melbourne Uni had controlled the ball in Harlequins 22 and had a chance to put 3 points on the scoreboard with a penalty from flyhalf Ioane Sefo, the students disappeared from the field and they were again to be found in the last quarter…

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With a large victory over Southern Districts in Round 16 of the Dewar Shield, Moorabbin clinches a play-off berth. The rams were in desperate need for at least one point to fence off Melbourne Uni’s chase, after a slow start they take control of the game and close it with 5 tries and 20 points margin over the pirates. The students loss agains Footscray would have made the result of this game redundant. The game has started under an heavy shower, the rams in desperate need for at least one point to fence off Melbourne Uni’s chase looked for early…

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Moorabbin looking for a point to clinch the last position in the playoffs With three rounds to go, only one verdict isn’t out in the Victorian competition. Despite a terrible form in the last weeks the rams need only one point to join Box Hill, Harlequin and Melbourne in the finals. Melbourne Uni is still hoping to tipping them from the fourth spot, but they’ll need two large bonus point wins from their remaining two games. On the top, the surprise package of the season, Box Hill, has a bye to recharge the batteries before the last frantic weeks of…

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