Outsider wrote:Iron Fist wrote:S Demon wrote:Outsider wrote:Any comments about the games on the weekend?
Good to see Seaton not let any of last weeks bad press get to them and portland after a slow start are in the hunt for the top 5. Pretty close comp apart from top and bottom. Will anyone knock off Unley this year??
I didn't see the Luthies v HV game, but I know the C grade were very undermanned with only 1 on the bench and 4 or 5 who did play were crook. Not an excuse, as I'm sure other teams are in the same boat this time of year. Hopefully get a few back this week and take up the challenge to Unley
We (portland) seemed to be the same this weekend, we went from having a full bench against pooraka to the coach, captain and myself spending friday night ringing blokes to round up some extra players. We ended up with 2 on the bench and after a very slow start to the game finally kicked into gear after half time.
The ruckman for Pembroke is an absolute monster and beat both of our guys who are not small nor short on experience. Surely he could be playing at least B grade out at Pembroke??
It seems to sound the same with all teams last weekend. I heard from someone at Districts that they had 9 changes from the game against the Jets and that was with 5 going up to the B grade and having none filter down due to injuries. Left with only one ruckman after having three that could do the job the game before. Injuries do start to add up this time of the year but lets hope for all clubs the players start filtering back in. Will be a good second half of the year in the C2's and I recon it will be a close one between Portland and Port Districts this week.[/quote
Thats C grade footy for ya!
Unfortunately this time of year (mid season slump), you never know what a team will be like when you rock up to play them on match day.
Most teams start out with good numbers and are fairly competitive but as the season progresses injury in all grades takes its toll and the guys that were missing out at the start due to good numbers may start dissappearing.
Once it gets close to finals every man and his dog suddenly appears again and all of a sudden the guys that battled through the mid season slump and carried the team are competing for spots!
'Oh the joys of C grade!' ]
Good luck to all teams this week.