The crown of reigning premiers Perth-Bayswater looks increasingly shaky as they plunged to their second loss in two weeks, 14-8 to sixth-ranked Associates. An injury-depleted Perth-Bayswater led 8-7 at half time but had no answers to the talented young Associates team who scored a converted try in the second half to take the game. The loss leaves Perth-Bayswater in second place on percentage, but sharing 43 points with third-placed Nedlands and fourth-placed Rockingham.
Filthy Fifth Grade overran a depleted Southern Lions outfit by 76-0 at Morley on Saturday. Even without team stars Dallas, Dwain "The Train" and Matt "Spit the Dummy" Sefton, the team despatched the Lions with ease. It would have been more if the Fonz hadn't been denied two tries after he crossed the line. Poor old Fonz scored under the posts only to look up to see the ref signalling that the final pass had been forward. Non-clayton's try scorers were Mike Whitney who scored four, Shane "Barr Fridge" with two and Ian "Dunny" Dunn, Rory, Ian "The Rock" Hardwick, Rau, and Cliffy "Man Boobs" Massena, who all dotted down for one each. Barr Fridge had a lucky day with the boot with nine conversions just making it over the sticks ... he should take a long hard look at himself for missing two.
The player who stood out above the rest of this elite team of athletes was Mike Whitney. Whits is the toast of the team having being selected to represent the Australian Police Force rugby team against the NZ Police team in the curtain raiser for the AB v Wallabies test in Auckland at the end of July. It's not often we get a international rep playing in our team. Hopefully Whits will return to us unbroken but I've seen the size of the NZ team, Whits, and I'm not totally confident you will survive the trip. If the match doesn't get Whits, the after match drinking will. Try of the day must go to big Cliff "Man Boobs" Mataseni, who, while loitering out on the wing, found himself with the ball in hand with only one defender between him and the try line. Cliff had a man outside him but we all know that the right thing to do is to pretend not to see the overlap and go for it yourself which is just what he did. Cliff run over the top of the poor lonely Lions tackler and in triumph dived in for a score that brought the crowd to its feet.
It was a pleasant day on the sideline with attractive rugby played by the team and good spirits amoung the spectators, unlike last weekend when it was handbags at six paces. People need to lighten up a bit and realise that a joke is a joke. Some people do need to think about some comments before they make them as at times it's not the right time for that joke (like when a player is injured). Good to see everyone has kissed, made up and remembered the reason why we play/support fifth grade. To get out of chores at home and drink lots of piss.