Palmyra Visit Rockingham, Mandurah, Bunbury...
In a draw which must have been conceived in the brain of a bipolar lunatic on speed, Palmyra was required to spread itself over three venues, 100 kilometers apart, and the nearest 40 kilometers from their home ground.
Nevertheless the club acquitted itself well, with the firsts accounting for Rockingham by some 20 points and seconds winning also, thirds going down narrowly to Mandurah and fifths beating them, sixths drawing with unbeaten top of the ladder Bunbury,and colts winning against South West by what must be the record score of the season so far,90 plus to zip.
At the time of posting, none of these scores, nor indeed any other lower grade results have as yet appeared on the RugbyWAwebsite.
Having been at Bunbury I am not able to comment on other games. But the sixths' efforts in drawing that game playing With only 13 men (some of whom had never before played together) plus a couple of seconded colts to make up the numbers (boy, those kids must have been tired) shows the depth of character in the club at all levels.
Next week, Associates again in first grade.
As much as I have now made my peace with Rick Boyd, and truly love him like a brother, it is with some sadness that I note he has returned to his partisan ways. Yes, brother Rick is a recalcitrant, his objectivity has again been diminuished, indeed thrown aside by his readoption of his "Perth is best -you are all shit" literary stance.
Take for example his headline on the RugbyWA site this Saturday "Perth Bayswater Bulldozer Runs over University". The real story is that a fourth from the bottom University, in the throes of on and off field turmoil, was able to take it right up to an overopinionated Perth team (that was barely able to fall over the line last week to second bottom Rockingham) losing by only 16 points, Perth allowing what would appear to be at least 3 tries to be scored against them.
I would have thought that what the game really revealed, and what should have been the headline, was that this year Perth have been a one man team all year, and now that man has returned to Japan, they are struggling even against mediocre competition.
Oh well, chacun a son gout.
