The Bedge wrote:Oldmatebob wrote:Surely Houghton have to be Reserve favourites this year? Finishing on game out of finals in Div 6 plus I’m assuming some recruits?
Two games and 9%.
They were much improved side on previous years, i'd think they will go well in D7R - but not sure i'd be having them favs just yet.. whilst they won 8 games last year, they "beat" Salisbury West who played an ineligible player early in the year, beat them when they were a rabble by the end of the year, and from memory didn't beat anyone above them?
Last years D6R was one of the worst I can recall in terms of the gaps between sides.
The year before, the Raiders won 2/18 and finished 2nd bottom - they were a better side last year than that season, but it does show how much D6 changed over 12 months.
If SWest hadn't played the ineligible player they would have lost, such was his influence on the game.
Regardless, I think you'll find a few of the older blokes finding a home in our reserves this year, adding some much needed experience to the side.