Wrap Week 4:

Unfortunately I have to keep this brief as I have an important pending date with a very important female lecturer. I know you understand.

Week 4 wrapped up the Round 1 last night and did so in fine style. The rugby was of an impressive standard with all sides coming to the party. If I use another cliché I might as well be Graeme Smith. Here are last night’s results:

The scoreboard tells a story that not even the embellish-king Dan Brown can expand on and judging by the amount of support that was up on the Mile last night I figure if you reading this you not looking for a match report since everyone was there to witness the events.

Okay, truth be told there were plenty blonde angels there not looking to see which team was playing the best pattern but if they didn’t come for the rugby they’re in bed at home right now recovering from what they did go for…

The end of Week 4 left the log standings looking like this after Round1:

We’re now ready to move onto Round 2 with the logs reshuffled. As explained ad nauseam, the logs are still premised on the same format of each consisting of a 1st rated, 2nd rated, 3rd rated and a reach for a dream team:


The fixtures for week 5 (which is next week by the way) will be out soon, but if your eagerness to work it out outweighs my inclination to take up my rendezvous with said female lecturer then I can tell you that it is the same format from week 1. Ie: 1 plays 4, 2 plays 3.

Here is more info for all you ESPN stats sluts out there. Since we advocate running rugby with a modicum of strong defense I think this table speaks volumes:

As mentioned the contests last night were fierce and physical. The “Hit of the Night” goes to the imposing inside centre figure of Scotty Dyson for the Panthers. If there was a silver award he would take that too, actually both his hits would tie for Gold. He smacked the counterattacking Baabaas fullback with such force the ref mentioned it at halftime and a 1st year girl was seen crying behind the floodlights pole she was in such shock.

“Try of the Night” has to go to the podium because there were so many:
3.) Brad Milne streaking away for a 55m against the run of play try for the Cobras that looked to sway the tide of the game against Ubumbo.
2.) The Clarendon right winger who scored a sick, game winning buzzer beater at the death to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat against Smuts.
1.) Ubumbo’s 2nd try. From where I was standing all I could see was the back of 400 supporters standing on the field but judging by their reaction the importance of the try to comeback and seal a draw spoke volumes. If the sides meet again it will be a cracker.
Special mention to Ikhaya has they actually scored a try, and then scored another….!