I doubt Balmain juniors would be allowed to play in the Laurie Daley or Andrew Johns comps as it’s considered a ‘rural’ competition. I’d say wests only qualify because of the group 6 aspect. It’s made clear at trials that players for LD and AJ cups must play in the wests tigers Macarthur...
I was referring to both sg ball teams. I’ve watched a lot of junior footy and don’t believe wests or Balmain in the u19s have enough quality to finish in the finals. Happy to be proven wrong but I’ll be very surprised if I am. I give wests Harold Matthews team a good chance of having a decent...
He ran hard for them. All hit ups from about 10m out. The last one in particular was very soft defence though. I thought magpies best players today were Gaffney, Lakeman, Lele, Havea jnr and Lanyon.
I don’t think the competition format helps the first and second placed teams. Dogs got rolled against the sixth placed warriors. Doesn’t seem Like much of a reward to have 3 weeks between games going into the preliminary final for the top two teams.