“WELL, these young men had their day on Saturday.”
It’s a quote from Bowral Blacks coach Val Tyson that sums up Bowral’s 57-10 hiding of the Vikings at Eridge Park on Saturday.
The Blacks second grade team has been beaten narrowly in a number of games and recorded a few small wins, but nothing comes close to the punishment they dished out against the Vikings.
The floodgates well and truly opened as Bowral’s backs shifted the ball from side to side, like a training run, with little pressure from the visitors.
“The team pulled one move (double suck) three times in the first half and I was beginning to wonder if Vikings were ever going to wake up to it,” Tyson said.
“I decided they were not.”
Tyson said the double suck was a move he first witnessed way back in the 70s, watching Matraville Boys High play.
“I was the Schools Liason Officer for Randwick Rugby Club and spent too many Wednesday afternoons watching the Phillip Zone schools play Rugby,” he said.
“Matraville was, in those days, pretty good.”
Tyson said it was an invaluable play and was particularly successful from lineouts and scrums.
“Another move we use is called Bowral Pool, once again an old Matraville play only in those days it was called ‘crash bang’,” Tyson said.
“ If the timing is right, it works all the time and the Vikings missed this one as well.”
Tyson said all the season’s hard work on the training paddock and playing had been rewarded with the post-match feeling.
“It really was lovely to watch the faces of these young men, in the dressing room after the match, just enjoying the sweet taste of a hard fought victory,” Tyson said.
“ The boys have endured some tough decisions from other clubs and have taken these punches on the chin in true Aussie fashion.”