Grading is difficult in these grades. Last season Hamilton azzuri ran away with it with a couple of "younger" o35s and south Cardiff finished 2nd and both went up. Southy have had a very similar team for years with the odd younger guy coming in....southy made the finals in Agrade this year and azzuri didn't. This year garden suburbs and Dudley were running away with it until Dudley lost points and warners bay jumped up. Belswans have hovered in the top 4 of the b grade for about 4 years now. It really only takes a player or 2 to come in or leave a team that pushes them up or down the table.
Couldn't agree more about the 6 team comps either....bit silly but I guess with they way edgy are walking the a grade no one wants to play there....I'm pretty sure one of the new lambton teams went to Friday night last year because they got put up.
Oh yeah they don't think there's anything suss going on they just marvelled at Warners Bay having 6 blokes on the bench every week then telling them about their 13 injured blokes. The poor blokes I know struggled to get 10 carcasses on the park every week.
Besides, by the time you hit the fossilzed age of 35 most blokes still playing know everyone in Newy either socially or through playing against them anyway.
We will be back in A-Grade again next season. We actually had some very good games with Edgeworth last season. It's a bit like the Friday night comp before West Wallsend retired. You were playing for second in A-grade.
We look like losing a few players again this year and your right, the key is replacing with a bit of youth. There is a few peolple sniffing around to join us, so hopefully we can build again.
But right now I'm looking forward to watching Belswans v Warners Bay. It's not the grand final I was expecting but good luck to both of them.
Definitely nothing dodgy going on with the players in Belswans or Warners Bay from the 4 times we have played both of them. Looked like the same teams to me.
The Dudley boys are happy!
2-1 victors over Edgie. Toughest game I have played for a long time.
Won our Grand Final 6-0. Scoreline really unfair on our opponents, it just all came together perfectly on the day. Was 2-0 until they conceded a pen and had a bloke sent off at the same time, we went on with it from there.
10 team comp this season so was good to come out on top