Joondalup Secure Future With Finals Berth

[ben hur]

Outstanding work Brothers. A great team with some really good players and very smart young coach i simply cannot see any reason why RWA will not give the 10th Premier grade spot to Joondalup for 2015 i would not be surprized if they dont win reserve grade this year

[fulvio sammut]

Er ... I think Joondalup lost today ... by... er ... a lot?

[wholetruth]

Er..Where did 10 come from?

[WFDom]

And there's no z in surpriSed!!!..... next

[Buck]

Well done brothers.
Your club has had the hardest run of all teams

[fulvio sammut]

Why?

Did they compete against a different set of opponents than the other nine?

[RugbyRef]

They lost but retained 4th, so will play Soaks.

I assume the ref to hard being due to the posibility that teams had put their first grade players against them. No idea if this really happened or was just perception, but Joondalup have done well.

[ben hur]

All sides we played against "stacked " there team with between 2 - 10prems players every week so yeah we did play against different teams

[westies man]

Yeah I would agree with that.First grade players were played against Bros to give them an extra run and when they beat Wests in the first round about 6 were regular 1st grade starters.

[fulvio sammut]

And Joondalup would have to be the only WA club in living memory to buy half a team of English imports just to stack their second grade, no?

[Dizzy Rascal]

Fluvio, the simple answer is 'NO '
No to 'buy' and No to 'English' - there are not many English accents in the reserve grade squad
Whilst yesterday's result was disappointing the club can be very proud of the performance of the reserve squad this season
The 'non English' half back has been one of the stand outs in the comp this season

[Buck]

Our Kala 2s also stacked in the 2nd round with 5 players from our 1st grade to cover injurys and guys who had work etc well thats what i heard anyway you guys are in the finals and rightly so sounds like Pally was the only club that didnt stack which i find very hard to belive!!

[GIGS20]

sounds like Pally was the only club that didnt stack which i find very hard to belive!!

maybe they used the game as an opportunity to give their imports an RDO as required by contracting laws.

[wholetruth]

What happened to the much publicised Fijians that were recruited at considerable cost.

[RugbyRef]

I must say that not only are the Joondalup players a credit to the comp, but they are also polite in defeat, modest in victory, and always look to the better.

Been a privilege to referee them a number of times this season.