Cottesloe Show Their True Face - And It's Ugly

[Burgs]

Get it on like Donkey Kong!

Totally agree with WF1964 though, you set your own standards in life, two wrongs don't make a right.

[Mambo No. 5]

Well I was there at the game......

I thought that it was a great crowd, great atmosphere and a really close tight game.

Don't know anything about what has been said above, but I had a very enjoyable afternoon out.

Go Local Rugby.

[Darkness]

Hansie, it is possible but at this stage (and given the way our boys have been playing the past three weeks) Cottesloe may knock us off this week with their professionals.

Is Neddies going to make representation to Rugby officialdom or have you deviously got someone special to line up for us this Saturday?
The boys I stand with at Neddies games will not be happy if Cottesloe have their professionals and we get beat.

[Homer J]

I fear that rant says more about you than Cott FS.

Considering recent form the winner of the Paly v Soaks game might go in as favourite for the final.

Soaks have the best win/loss record but still came third.

[The Oracle]

For someone with such a small brain Homer, your logic is very good!

Soaks have Staniforth, O'Young, Godwin, Siliva and Holmes out of the Western Force Stable which slants the see-saw even more in their favour. You could say they can't lose!

[Darren]

Reports are coming in that it was some bloke name "Frank Sammut" and his presidential cohort who led hecklers against Mark Bartholomeusz. The Cottesloe coach then [rightly or wrongly] tarred all at Palymyra with the same brush, followed their sporting lead and issued the get on the bus orders ...

But the game will be the real winner.

[fulvio sammut]

Yeah, it's pretty ordinary when people actually object to being ripped off, isn't it?

[zimeric]

can anyone tell me what is at stake by winning the flag?.. is it just bragging rights?
if so then surely id relish the idea of playing against a couple of pros if its just to show that ive got what it takes...

its time for clubs to stop whining about the WF ring-ins and time for them to stand up and be counted and prove they can do with or without them...

[maelkann]

If it makes everyone feel better, I can whinge about fourth grade ring ins?

(Is that neutral ground game at Lark Hill?)

[bunter]

Well lets see if Cott bring their own booze to Lark Hill again this year (if they play there)
Amusing watching the Rocko President tipping their smuggled in supplies down the sink last year, and then listening to all the crying and explanations.
A wheelie bin full dragged into the changerooms to keep cool for the bus trip on the way home.(not)
Also the Cott coach performing like drongo on the other side of the field during the Cott/Rocky match at Lark Hill this season. Got shitty when told he may as well join the team on the field with all his barkng orders, incessant dialogue with the referee's assistant and berating his team's performance.

Mind you, I think everyone who has been around the Club rugby scene for some time will remember when the Cottesloe 7's used to run at Easter, Paly would always pitch a tent just outside the south fence line out of the licenced area.

It's a shame that there are quite a number of people, in just about every Club, who show little respect for other Clubs.
People just don't seem to enjoy the game and culture of rugby as they used to.
Every match these days seems to have some side issue going on, which I believe detracts from the sport.
Not even going to get in to the lopsided distributon of WF players in the Club scene.
I attended the initial meetings where RugbyWA promoted having all these players here in the West as being great for the Clubs and a way of raising the standards here.
My personal belief is that the Clubs were ripped off, and Community Rugby has now become an annoying minor priority for our governing body.

[Ecky]

Reports are coming in that it was some bloke name "Frank Sammut" and his presidential cohort who led hecklers against Mark Bartholomeusz. The Cottesloe coach then [rightly or wrongly] tarred all at Palymyra with the same brush, followed their sporting lead and issued the get on the bus orders ...

Hmmmm

I heard a similar story - more about the "presidential cohort" (can you have just one cohort?) than FS but. And that it was in retaliation to personal taunts from the Cott folk against Paly players.

All seems a wee bit childish to me but, as I wasn't there, it's not really for me to say. Although my sauce is impeccable and was in the thick of it...

[WaterBoy]

1 cohort, 2 cohorts

Hmmmm

I heard a similar story - more about the "presidential cohort" (can you have just one cohort?) than FS but. And that it was in retaliation to personal taunts from the Cott folk against Paly players.

All seems a wee bit childish to me but, as I wasn't there, it's not really for me to say. Although my sauce is impeccable and was in the thick of it...

[Burgs]

A few weeks ago I found myself a quiet corner at Soaks to watch them play Wanneroo.

Alone and sober (I was driving...) I was able to take it all in without distraction or local bias and was impressed with the good nature and general "spirit of Rugby" on both sides.

I had to bolt at the end of the Firsts, so no idea who stayed or left, but it was Rugby as I remembered it should be.

Last year I attended at Palmyra to watch them play Wests, it was decidedly noisier throughout with more (admittedly generally good natured) banter.

My observation is that the Rugby sideline fraternity tend to be as old as dinosaurs with memories like elephants and these squabbles go back years, if not generations.

It's not my place to make suggestions to solutions but it seems like a cancer to the future to me.

[pruc]

both sides need to grow up. its only rugby

[Action Hardcore]

Who gives a shit, let's all just hope soaks don't take the flag. C'mon Neddies!