Recent content by Monsta

I've been banging on about the GPS system and the win at all costs practice they have for some time. So Churchie NOT taking on contracted league players is music to my ears. I think it's a double negative with the lads from 8As, 9As, 10As being relegated to the 2nds, 3rds in years 11&12 to make...

What’s on this weekend? Norths have got Sunnybank at Sunnybank Saturday trial.

Sadly OS, Wests are able to call back the 4 or so players they had up in Prems last weekend which will no doubt give them the impetus to get over the line.

Norths 50 Wests 19

I think I agree and perhaps even would extend it. I have seen over the past 10 or so years selections made on reputation, size and sadly, who you know. In Colts I am seeing it pretty much every week where, with generally no skin in the game, I have focussed on observing the "reputation"...

Ongoing recruitment and retention will still be the challenge as it is for many clubs. One good year of recruitment or retention of some Norths Juniors post school doesn't make a long term team but lets hope they can do it and be competitive for a while.

Have to say I was quite disappointed in the decision 2nd half to award Brothers a scrum penalty when they were going backwards at a great rate of knots. Still don't quite understand that after, as you say, clear forward and scrum dominance in the second half. A cracking game.

All quite true. But one of the biggest misses by the ref was the headbutt by one of the Bond centres after full time. Resulted in a broken nose for the Norths player. Ref said he didn’t see it so too bad, so sad.