RWO Game Day Thread - Round 1 - April 1-2

[Norris Lurker]

The new season is upon us; and we've got the opening round of games this weekend.

The weekly Game Day Thread is for discussion on this weekend's games. If there's any more rain leading to ground closures; or any last-minute fixture changes; please post them on here - and we can do our bit to make sure everyone gets to the right ground at the right time. And if you have any other relevant game-day information, please post here.
And this week, and at any time during the season, if your club has a special event (ladies day, past players day etc); give yourselves a plug! I'm happy for you to use this forum to promote your club's events - maybe we can drum up some numbers for you.

And once the games are run and won, post your thoughts and observations here. If you played, umpired, volunteered or watched any games where something noteworthy happened, tell us about it!


This week's fixtures:

Saturday 1st April

Gipps Rd Oval
12:00 Holroyd Parramatta Goannas v Nor-West Jets Division Three
14:00 Holroyd Parramatta Goannas v Sydney University (Clash) Division One

Greygums Oval
8:30 Penrith Rams v Campbelltown Blues Under 19s Division Two
10:30 Auburn-Penrith Giants v UNSW/ES Stingrays Women's Division One
12:30 Auburn-Penrith Giants v UNSW/ES Stingrays Women's Premier Division
14:30 Penrith Rams v North Shore Bombers Division Two

Gwawley Oval
11:00 Southern Power v UTS Shamrocks Women's Premier Division
13:00 Southern Power v UTS Bats Division Four
15:00 Southern Power v Pennant Hills Demons Division One

Hannaford Oval
13:00 Wollondilly Knights v South West Sydney Magpies Women's Division One
15:00 Wollondilly Knights v South West Sydney Magpies Division Two
17:00 Wollondilly Knights v Camden Cats Division Five

Kanebridge Oval
9:00 East Coast Eagles v Sydney University Bombers (Clash) Women's Division One
11:00 East Coast Eagles v Sydney University (Clash) Under 19s Division One
13:00 East Coast Eagles v UNSW Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs Division Two
15:00 East Coast Eagles v UNSW Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs Premier Division
17:45 East Coast Eagles v South West Sydney Magpies Division Four

Mahoney Park (HJ Mahoney Mem Res)
8.30 UNSW/ES Bulldogsv Sydney University Division Four
10:30 Balmain Tigers v UNSW/ES Bulldogs Division Five
12:30 Balmain Tigers v North Shore Bombers (Clash) Division Three
14:30 Balmain Tigers v UTS Bats (Clash) Division One

Monarch Oval
12:00 Campbelltown Blues v Camden Cats Women's Division One

Mortgage Choice Oval
10:30 North Shore Bombers v Holroyd Parramatta Goannas Division Five
12:30 North Shore Bombers v Newtown Breakaways Women's Division One
14:30 North Shore Bombers v UNSW/ES Bulldogs Under 19s Division One

North Dalton Park
10:00 Wollongong Saints v Western Magic Women's Division One

Olds Park
9:00 St George Dragons v Western Magic Under 19s Division One
11:00 St George Dragons v Western Magic Division Four
13:00 St George Dragons v Western Magic Division One
15:15 St George Dragons v North Shore Bombers Premier Division
18:00 St George Dragons v South West Cats Under 19s Division Two

Picken Oval
10:00 Wests Goannas v North Shore Bombers Clash Under 19s Division Two
12:00 Western Suburbs Magpies v Sydney University Division Two
14:00 Western Suburbs Magpies v Sydney University Premier Division

Pioneers Park
11:40 Randwick City Saints v Nor-West Jets Division Five
14:10 Randwick City Saints v Pennant Hills Demons Division Two

University Oval (Macquarie University)
9:00 Macquarie University v UTS Bats Division Five
11:00 Macquarie University v Sydney University Bombers Women's Premier Division
13:00 Macquarie University v Camden Cats Division Three
15:00 Macquarie University v Camden Cats Division One

Weldon Oval
8:30 Manly Warringah Wolves v Pennant Hills Demons Division Four
10:30 Manly Warringah Wolves v Pennant Hills Demons Women's Division One
12:30 Manly Warringah Wolves v Pennant Hills Demons Under 19s Division One
14:30 Manly Warringah Wolves v UTS Bats Premier Division
17:15 Manly Warringah Wolves v UTS Bats Division Two


Sunday 2nd April

Greygums Oval
11:00 Penrith Rams v Campbelltown Blues Division Five
13:00 Penrith Rams v Campbelltown Blues Division Three

Picken Oval
12:00 Western Wolves v Newtown Breakaways Women?s Premier Division
14:00 Western Suburbs Magpies v Sydney University Division Five


Bye
Pennant Hills Demons Premier Division
Southern Power Under 19s Division Two

[saviour01]

Doing the opening of the new facilities at olds on Saturday. New pitch, new fence, new scoreboard, new posts, new pads, new club rooms, new kitchen, new gym, new roof on the terrace. Few politicians coming down to shake hands and kiss babies.

Should be a good day.

[mrns]

Doing the opening of the new facilities at olds on Saturday. New pitch, new fence, new scoreboard, new posts, new pads, new club rooms, new kitchen, new gym, new roof on the terrace. Few politicians coming down to shake hands and kiss babies.

Should be a good day.

Very fortunate serious of events for your football club! Can't wait to check out the facilities if I get the chance!

[saviour01]

What happened to ece?

[Norris Lurker]

Didn't see the East Coast v UNSW-ES result coming. The Bulldogs would be very pleasantly surprised with that one.
St George with a strong comeback win at Olds Park. Sydney Uni too good for Wests and UTS a big result at Weldon over Manly.
And plenty of action through the divisions.

Were you at any games today? What were your thoughts? Who's hot & who's not?

[redsox]

Div 2 as well

What happened to ece?

At least they won div 4

[5yearplan]

Div 4 ECE big win over depleted south west SYDNEY team, Eagals won there first women's game, ECE div 2 great game to watch both teams played great game, prems result the dogs played great and lessons no doubt learnt the competition in prems this season will be closer than most recent seasons, however ... flags aren't won round 1 either. 19's was a good hit out with a first qtr from a strong uni team being the main difference

[saviour01]

Didn't see the East Coast v UNSW-ES result coming. The Bulldogs would be very pleasantly surprised with that one.
St George with a strong comeback win at Olds Park. Sydney Uni too good for Wests and UTS a big result at Weldon over Manly.
And plenty of action through the divisions.

Were you at any games today? What were your thoughts? Who's hot & who's not?

I only saw u19s and our div 4. Blacktown might be in for a long year in 19s. North shore flogged unsw tho which is a bit surprising.

Blacktown huge improvers in div 4. We were only up by 11 at 3/4 time but big last 1/4. Seems like div 1 and prems had big last quarters too.

I was worried about prems today but a great result with all their recruits.

Did syd uni really play a neafl list?

[mrns]

North Shore won 6 from 7 yesterday, I can tell you the president (and his wallet) got a little bit nervous about the clean sweep round 1

[justabaraker]

Did syd uni really play a neafl list?

It does seem a bit unfair doesn't it ? Their NEAFL-experienced players were

Mitch Thompson
Vicic
Clarke
Kane Murphy
Mitch Mahady
Osborne
Andrew Sierakowski
Monty Krochmal
Nick Foster

We can leave it to The Student to justify this and I think he would probably say they are all local products or else enrolled at the Uni and that makes them eligible for Prems.
I suppose that, if Baulko is allowed to play all their ex-NEAFL players in Prems, then Sydney Uni has to be given some kind of concession too.

[saviour01]

Yeh but we all know how BS it is with Baulko playing their ex neafl players with 400k worth of debt and the sydney afl bailing them out so they can win premierships. Huge asterix created by the sydney afl.

[The Student]

There's also a dozen blokes that went back to other clubs so I'm not sure what we are supposed to do - probably a bit unlucky for Wests that our list has no injuries at the moment but I doubt you'll see a side that top heavy again. All of those guys have played PD at Uni previously - the only one who hadn't was Lucy and he only played because he'd been away for a chunk of the summer and they wanted him to play a couple in PD. The other thing is that the players dropped back hadn't trained once with the PD side all summer, so they were just making it up as they went along.

It does seem a bit unfair doesn't it ? Their NEAFL-experienced players were

Mitch Thompson
Vicic
Clarke
Kane Murphy
Mitch Mahady
Osborne
Andrew Sierakowski
Monty Krochmal
Nick Foster

We can leave it to The Student to justify this and I think he would probably say they are all local products or else enrolled at the Uni and that makes them eligible for Prems.
I suppose that, if Baulko is allowed to play all their ex-NEAFL players in Prems, then Sydney Uni has to be given some kind of concession too.

[Norris Lurker]

Don't know about the rest of them, but Monty Krochmal and Vicic were mainly playing Prems last year - may have played a few NEAFL games but wouldn't have been many. But when collating the weekly results for the RWO report (which I'm half-way through doing at the moment for this weekend's games), those names frequently came up in Premier Division last year.

[unconfuseme]

Who cares - R1 off a severely rain interrupted pre-season - will have little bearing on the finals make up ... if SU can field that side every week, they will win the flag by a lap ... they will miss the finals narrowly, of course. Pretty sure ECE lost an early game or two last year. In near perfect conditions at Olds, whilst Saints v Bombers was as tough and contested as any premier division game, and a thriller, the skill errors at times were more like a Div 5 practice match after a big Friday night (to be fair, 30+ minute quarters in the heat were probably a factor too)!

[Norris Lurker]

This week's RWO wrap of the weekend action is now online.