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This isn’t true. He did have a high ankle sprain but he’s back, he was sin binned early in the 2nd half against stannies but looked fully fit. It’s between him a Pule to who plays loosehead

Having a conversation with a stannies dad on the weekend. The team that played against barker and brook was vastly improved and better then the team agaknst Scott’s. They had some good players, there 15 and 3 in particular but yes you’re right the results should’ve been a lot better

I had similar thoughts with backline set piece. There was a lot of stray passes, I was willing to put it down to a new centre pairing and a young backline but there was a reliance on individual brilliance. Those opportunities will be few and far between against sides of knox and waves quality

Enasio has a great short passing game. Which is arguably one of the most important features in a centre for a rep team where combinations aren’t strong, combine that with a strong ball runner and defender you have a high level 12. Enasio played 12 for gen blue in their games at the end of last year

Would be interesting to see enasio and McDonald play together in the centres

Final score 38-5. Stapleton (1) had a strong 1st half. Talaileva (8) was completely dominant making a break just about every time he touched the ball. Blanchard (14) was very strong defensively. Dene (10) took control in the 2nd half. Barker were quite scrappy and lacked cohesion but given the...

Chandler Sullivan goes over for his third of the half. Came off a strong run from nick hill. 38-5. Getting close to the end of the game

Can wyk goes over again. 31-5

Penalties counts getting very high here

Chandler Sullivan goes over again from an inside pass from Dene barker lead to 26-5. Barker starting to walm up to the near freezing conditions

Chandler Sullivan goes over in the corner, from a set piece move off a scrum just short of halfway. Barker lead 19-5

Barker down to 14 early in the first half

Try to Van Wyk to finish the half barker lead 14-5. Very scrappy first half

Last years barker 1st team were strong the whole way through, not as strong as waves but definitely one of the stronger schoolboy line ups

All this would do is drive more kids to gps. The league pathways have been set up through clubs union through schools. Not all kids can play both league and Union, the last thing we need is those boys being driven off to top gps schools and further reducing the talent pool in schoolboy rugby

Barker typically rest several players for the stannies game. Key players and anyone under an injury cloud will most likely be rested giving plenty of 2nds and 16As boys a chance.

Although Cranbrook have potential. Given they scraped through for a narrow win against stannies who had 60 put on them by Scot’s, it doesn’t really seem as though they’re as close to knox, barker and waves as it’s being suggested

Barker will learn a lot from this loss and I hope it will put them in a good position for tight matches in the case rounds