Aussie Community Rugby
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@NTA yeah, we did that this year and has been easier, first game was painful as i mentioned earlier in the thread, guys doing it on their phone 10min before kickoff
but since then hasnt been too bad
all our our coaches also sponsor at least one players (if they can), i picked up one of our colts who has ended up playing 1s
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And the two guys who absolutely carved up were 18yo kids of Cook Islander heritage who grew up on league all their lives. Shows where our development systems are at. One of them propped against blokes twice his age and held his own, then absolutely dicked everyone in open play.
I reckon I could take half a dozen of these league kids, weld a small, fit forward pack onto them from a couple of local schools, and win almost every U21 comp in our competition.
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3s and 2s lost....but had earned the right to have a second chance so will play a prelim this week
1s got up though so we get a week off and though to the Grand Final!
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fucking furious
our opposition on the weekend received a RED for this huge high shot, our halfback had to come off and i ended up taking him to the hospital, couldnt remember pretty much anything from the day and the whole drive back was just repeating the same quesitons, was that the semi? did we win? who hit me? did he get a card? am i concussed?....then immediately start again, was scary. hes obviously done for the season including the grand final but possibly rugby in general....theyre guy has got off...so he's free to play and max may never play again
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@Kiwiwomble How when the ref needs to write a report?
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@antipodean we dont get to see the report because we didn't cite him, straight to the judiciary because it was red, the only thing we've heard is they have deemed there was no head contact....which there clearly was, the cynic in me says its because theyre current champs and a big club and RV dont have the balls to ban someone in finals
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Dewar Shield and Victoria Club Rugby | Just when you thought it...
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, our competition has hit a new low. How do 5 players from the Quinn’s who got red cards get no discplinary action and are free to play the next game....
if anyones interested the unofficial facebook page got a bit spicy overnight when someone called them out.....having to stop myself piling in for fear of repercussions
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Lost both preliminary finals today so that's 2024 done.
Conflicted as I now have my Saturdays back, but we aren't going to rein anything this year
Still, we got both grades into the finals so that's a step forward
Wife is happy
Right up until she finds out I'm going camping next weekend lol
I'm drunk
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@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:
Lost both preliminary finals today so that's 2024 done.
Conflicted as I now have my Saturdays back, but we aren't going to rein anything this year
Still, we got both grades into the finals so that's a step forward
Wife is happy
Right up until she finds out I'm going camping next weekend lol
I'm drunk
good work mate, think i know how you feel....kind of looking forward to the end, including pre season weve been going since Jan....but also will be very quiet on Sat
our 1s had the week off but 4s, 3s 2s and women all have prelims/semi.....2s the only ones who lost so 4 teams playing grand final day this Sat....huge day for the club and without 2's playing we should have a completely fresh bench which is not nothing
mrs womble has only just clicked will be away most of sat and sunday...have to remind her im old so will be home by midnight....and then mid afternoon on sunday
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I really wanted it this year, but I don't know if getting there and losing would be worse than not getting there at all
Considering that last year we scraped into 6th spot for First Grade (finals were top 6) while 2nds missed out altogether (7th), finishing third and fourth and then going through to Preliminary finals is progress. Effectively 3rd in both Grades at this point.
The vibe around the club is good. The prospect of Colts U21 is also stronger for next year. I've had encouraging conversations with the local juniors and want to get into schools to help with that as well - fuck knows NSW Rugby are useless for that.
Players say they want to come back, but of course February is a long way off.
Financially we're still scraping by (one sponsor never paid and we're waiting on another who wants to meet about an MOU but won't return calls right now) but I'd rather have $5k in the bank to buy equipment next year; financials is definitely something we need to work on.
I just never know which way it is going to turn, and need to work on switching off my rugby brain
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might be hard but give yourself a break before wading back into it all again
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@Kiwiwomble said in Aussie Community Rugby:
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, our competition has hit a new low. How do 5 players from the Quinn’s who got red cards get no discplinary action and are free to play the next game....
if anyones interested the unofficial facebook page got a bit spicy overnight when someone called them out.....having to stop myself piling in for fear of repercussions
should have added to this, quins got beat in the 1st grade premlim, the same guy who got his red against us last week got another yellow....thug, thats two reds and two yellows for the season and no bans
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@NTA we did hear rumour that the refs had all got together to lay a complaint, the judiciary was undermining them
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@Kiwiwomble they fucking should.
I'm often a harsh critics of ref as a part-timer (the guy in 2nd Grade cut us off at the knees a couple of times on the weekend) but if a red card is going to be given then unless fairly good footage exists disproving it, most Judiciaries are going to give at least a minor sentence.
