Old Collegians 1's vs Southern Suburbs

In very cold conditions Southern Suburbs started in an impressive fashion with their forwards driving hard and winning good ball. Collegians were not tackling well early in the game and were giving too much room to the 5/8 and inside centre.

Their first try came from this early pressure and a break by the 5/8. Coll s pack was under pressure but won significant rucks on their own tryline to prevent Souths adding to their score.

Having survived the early period Colls started to win good ball particularly from the lineout to set the backs in motion. Three excellent tries resulted, the first from Andrew inserting himself into the back-line after quick line out ball. The second resulted in Gus going over after Adrian and Dion mounted a counter attack from a poor Souths clearing kick. Finally Tom pounced on a loose Souths lineout ball to set up the backs for a try imn the corner. No conversions but Logan kicked a penalty to make the half time score 18-5.

Colls drove a maul off a lineout near Souths line for Ben to dart over. The whole team was playing with gree confidence. Andrew scored another and a couple just went missing for want of the final pass. We looked like we were going to run away with it but to Souths credit they came back and put us under considerable pressure.

We conceded 8 penalties to 2 in the 2nd half. Colls defence was generally good but 2 poor decisions to run the ball from our own line when under pressure resulted in Souths scoring 2 tries ( the result of dropped passes ) We must learn when and how to clear our line when under pressure!

The final score 28-15 our way didn't reflect our dominance for much of the game. Our Lineout and loose play was good but our scrum was under pressure for the whole game. The backs played very well and whenever we move the ball wide to use the speed on the wings and full back we looked capable of scoring every time.

Old Collegians 3's vs Southern Suburbs

Cold, wet, windy. It was that sort of day - the start was delayed because a Brighton Onkas match had been moved from Murray Bridge? back to Bailey pitch 2. We turn up - a problem - only 1 set of post protectors so we waited a while. I think both matches ended up being 30 minute halves and we nicked the pads for the last 10 minutes of their game.

The humour continued: Souths provided the crowd with a flame haired Kiwi joker who alternated between wanting to go 3 rounds and displaying his pubic hairs to all and sundry. He was finally politely asked to leave the ground sometime in the second half - Souths inadvertently then proceeding to replace him - I haven't seen a good "player count" since that Queensland Turtles RL mob were dudded their points for having x+1 players.

A match of 2 halves again - we are terribly slow to get some control of a game - Will Denny shone out in the loose forwards - Hamish ( welcome back ) was totally stuffed by the end - unfortunately Jamie discovered Section 41c Subsection 3 Paragraph 14 Phrase 26z Notation 6 ( only 7 substitutes can take the field during the term of the match) he had been cunningly rotating his players all year - used up his 7 - so Hamish had to soldier on. The leftovers went looking for a match with the 2's.

New 5/8 in Sean - looks like he can handle a ball linked well with Peter H and Mike "puff