Saints looked a good combination on the night, but it's important to remember that Wests were only putting up a combination of boys trialling for the last 15 spots in our Ball Squad. They had no combinations at all. That's a bit of shame on us, as I would have loved to see how our best and brightest would have gone. I suspect with guys like current NSW U/17's players Dean Rysko, and Shannon McDonnell and their regular team mates the game would have been a lot more intense.
Still don't want to take anything from Saints who showed that they do very good development work with their youngsters. These boys wouldn't look out of place at all in Ball and clearly some boys will go much further. You can't do much better than win all of your games. It's important for the game that the pommies close the gap and they certainly look like they are on the right track. Hope the boys enjoyed the huge pile of steaks that were being BBQed as I was leaving 8)