Pingvin were defeated at their stronghold by a determined Goteborg 11-17. This was nothing short of a sensation and all credit must go to the visitors for their win. Considering that they have been the worse side in the Elite this season and that most pundits, including ourselves, thought that they would lose, they found some spirit and live to fight another day. Two matches to come against a resurgent Vanersborg will be interesting , but of course Grf will take a great deal of comfort from this scoreline. As for Pingvin? Well they will have to take count and look to see where they can improve, both on and off the field. Good luck to them in their quest to return to the Elite.
Hammarby were undone by a revitalised Enkoping and whilst both teams were not at full strength there was plenty of dis-appointment in the home side faces after this defeat. Without doubt, the visitors were the better team and had a far more potent backline than their hosts. Contrary to most views, both teams had plenty to play for as neither would want to go into the semi-finals on the back of a loss, unfortunately for the hosts, it was they who ended the league season on the back of loss 20-45 and with a poor performance by them. Erk will be relishing their encounters with Exiles in the semi's although it will be difficult to see them overcoming the men in black. Hammarby will regroup and as they have the easier task in the semi's against Spartacus should have enough in their armoury to make the finals.
Spartacus visited Exiles in the last of the Elite matches and found that once again the opposition was much too strong. Although they were behind from the second minute and were soon 14 points down after 12 minutes, the visitors never stopped battling and it is plain to see that they do not have a backline to compete at this level, their forwards are a match for most teams. The other strength they appear to have is that they never give up, at least on this performance. Exiles did not play that well, but they did not need to, however everytime they visitors gave them the ball, their talented backs counter attacked with devastating effect. they eventually ran out winners by 54-10.
Hard to split the difference between the Exiles and Erk backs, so it will come down to the forwards superiority and Exiles may just have that. As for Spartacus, it has been a good season for them and they have done well to be one of the super 4 this year, but that is where it will finish for them.
Super 4....hahahahahahahahahah!!!!
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ReplyDeleteI have just come back from watching the big 4 team play. I don't think anything can come out of today's games. When I saw the Hammarby team the rumour must have been true and they ran their B team out today. There was only two players in the backs that played against exiles and their forwards were missing quite a few. Enkoping didn't look like they had very many players on the bench and a lot revolves around their number 10.
ReplyDeleteExiles looked dangerous when they ran the ball wide because Spartacus had forwards playing in the backline. Their hooker today played number 10 and some of the other players also looked too big to be backs. Spartacus took exiles on in the forwards and competed quite well but once they made a mistake exiles threw the ball wide and spartacus couldn't match them for pace.
The games next week will be interesting especially the Enkoping/Exiles game. It could come down to which team has the best number 10 and on today's games it looks like exiles 10 was good until he came off. Enkoping will have to bring their best game to beat exiles, but they have the players to do it.
As for Hammarby/Spartacus, it depends which team the Hammarby coach decides to run onto the field. They definitely have the players to go all the way to the gold but their coach has been rotating his players quite a lot.
Makes for a great week of finals.
Vilka är spelarna som Hammarby valde att vila i matchen mot Enköping? Tror att ryktet om att Hammarby ställde upp med ett B-lag är vida överdrivet.
ReplyDeleteMy predictions for weekend
ReplyDeleteExiles 28 Enkoping 16
Hammarby 42 spartacus 8
enköping 26 exiles 24
ReplyDeletespartacus 3 hammarby 52
The giant scores in Hammarbys favor must be a Spartacus player wanting to put the pressure on the visitors. The three top teams have combined score of 43 points away to Spartacus; no team is going to score more then 20p on them.
ReplyDeleteERK - Exiles 17-14
ReplyDeleteSparatcus - Hammarby 6-24
I think the decisive game between Exiles and ERK is the game on Saturday. If Exiles can take away a lead from the away game this weekend I don't think ERK could go to Exiles and beat them next week. Lets not forget Exiles put 41 points on ERK at home a couple of weeks ago....are ERK going to be able to play 41 points better?
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