The Yabbies, off the back of their win the week prior, were looking to start a trend and the opening minutes of the game looked like they were going to do this.

The Yabbiemen held the Devils in their own 22metres for the first 15 minutes hammering the defence and not giving the opposition a chance to touch the pigskin. The ferocious attack put the Devils under pressure early on and they start to crack, giving away penalty after penalty until the ref reach for the pocket to revel a nice slice of Cheeze (Yellow Card). Boom one player gone, the Yabbies continue their barrage, the cheese from the pocket again to see the Devils down to 13 players. The Yabbies scored with Jesh Smith overpowering their defence. Minute later James Schiller put the Yabbies over for another giving them a 14-0 lead in the game.

The devils managed to hold out the Yabbies and as their players started to return to the field they regained some control in the game. Half time score 14-5 in Yabbies favour. However the 2^nd half didn’t go the way of the Yabbies. The Yabbies slipped off in the second half no able to bring down some of their bigger players, slipping off high tackles and under pressure mistakes started to tally up against the Yabs.

The silence after the game in the shed said it all. It was a game that was well and truly in reach of the Yabbies, however it slipped between their claws.

“It was a backflip from our usual games where we start slow in first half and finish strong in second. We know what we have to work on, it’s an 80 minute game and we played good passages of 10-15mins here and there,” coach Ned said. “We will work on our defence this week and look to improve out set plays with some great numbers now at training we have a lot more options we can utilise.

“We will look to learn from this week and move forward as a team.”

The Yabbies have a bye this weekend however the moral will continue with a booked out mystery bus tour this weekend.

Final Score 31-14. Points – 3 Hamish Kaveney, 2 Tom Kent, 1 Angus Crawford, Players player Hamish Kaveney and Matt Happer.

Coming from far and wide the player profiles are to feature in coming weeks. A small glimpse; Cameron “Sunshine” Robinson, from Hogwarts London, England. Mike “YellowBelly” Gallagher, from Toronto “what you talkin aboat” Canada, CK “one rum, I’m fun” Mazibuko from South Africa, Angus “Shrek” Crawford, from the Land of Far Far away in a swamp (aka London).

Welcome lads and great to have you on the Yabbies bandwagon.