Wrap Week 5:

The league is in recess now until August due to our long winter exams and looming examinations but it went to sleep on a high note last night with the first weeks match ups of Round 2.

The purpose of Round 1 was to seed the teams into pools of equal strength so that the pool games leading up to the play-offs would ensure the match ups in the knock out stages would be as equal and as competitive as possible.

This structure would obviously enforce traditional minnow sides to face off against more established sides and despite what scoreboards reflect the games were hard, fast and very competitive.

The off field issue last night was the lack of organised referees. Usually Western Province Society refs come out to get blamed for losses but a major oversight by management meant that this was not the case and we had to beg, borrow and persuade refs to depart from the warm comfort of the sidelines and take up the most high profile job available.

Gracious thanks must be extended to Stu, Chad, Tom, Mike, Sean and Burt for being courageous enough to take up the whistle and give every player there last night the opportunity to actually play!

The games of Pool A saw Nadoes roll out an emphatic victory over College House in a very physical encounter and Ubumbo running away with a very tight match against Clarendon. Both games were punctuated with some entertaining interplay and individual touches of brilliance. Special mention must go to Clarendon, historically a very underprivileged side yet this year have been more than impressive.

Pool B entertained a strong Barbarians win over Ikhaya, and the very important res derby where Marquard beat out Kopano in a close game. Ikhaya having been struggling to grapple with the harships of Internal League rugby but there raw enthusiasm bodes well for a new side and if there were prizes for team spirit and support they would certainly walk away with top honours.

Pool C hosted the continuances of the points machine, the Purple Cobras, as they chalked up a big victory over Smuts Hall and another 'point-o-meter' the Wildboys scoring 7 unanswered tries against the Shebeen Boys.

The log after Week 5:

There were too many good tries this week to try and rate some higher than others and it was very difficult to single out a specific side to award the honours of team of the week. With that in mind Clarendon must walk away with more than special mention as they really were brilliant in never giving up against a very strong Ubumbo side and making it a contest all the way to the final whistle.

"Player of the Night" however, definitely goes to the exciting supersub inside centre for Ubumbo, Lebo. The guy came on and showed some individual brilliance with a pace to burn, feet and skill. The crowd weren't joking when they referred to him as SA answer to Luke McAlister.

The Warren "Bad Boys" Brosnihan commentary award:
There were multiply entrants last night and I think they should all humbly accept their award and spend next Wednesday night wondering the Green Mile alone repeating their comments to themselves. If you said one of these, please don't come back for Week 6, because rugby is policed by laws not rules.
- The ref doesn't know the rules...
- The ref forgot his rule book!
- Atleast the refs last week knew the rules..!
- Come one ref, is passing forward a new rule?