British xvs Grand Final

[Ringo]

We come to the final games of the season.

With the continuing delaying naming of teams we will have a rolling lock out again but captain, vice captain and evc will be locked at bounce of Norths Eagles game tomorrow night.

You can name 5 emergencies.

Teams and changes to be lodged in this thread.

Good luck to both teams Giants and Steins who have been the form teams of the season. Who will win that is the question.

Steins will be hard to toss if their twin rucks of Grundy and Gawn play but should one not play Giants may cause an upset.

[Rids]

Grope Lane

Def: Lloyd, Haynes, Cerra, Tuohy
Mids: TAdams (VC), Treloar (C) Gaff (EVC), Hopper
Ruck: English
Fwds: DeGoey, Keays, Vandenberg, Gresham
Util: Walsh, BEllis

Emerg: Florent (M), Day (D), Melksham (F), Newnes (C), Hayward (F)

[nas]

Staines Steins

Def: Callum Mills - Luke McDonald - Jayden Short - Luke Ryan.
Mids: Josh Kelly - Lachie Hunter - Marcus Bontempelli (EVC) - Sam Menegola.
Ruck: Brodie Grundy (VC).
Fwds: Christian Petracca - Jesse Hogan - Matthew Taberner - Eric Hipwood.
Util: M Gawn (C) - Karl Amon.
Emerg: Nick Vlastuin (D) - Adam Tomlinson (M) - Jason Johannisen (D) - Oscar Allen (F) - A M-Tippa (F).

[Ringo]

Poll has been added and feel free to add comments as well as to why.

[Rids]

Grope Lane

Def: Lloyd, Haynes, Cerra, Tuohy
Mids: TAdams (VC), Treloar (C) Gaff (EVC), Hopper
Ruck: English
Fwds: DeGoey, Keays, Vandenberg, Melksham
Util: Walsh, BEllis

Emerg: Florent (M), Day (D), Hayward (F), Newnes (C), Jones (F)

Gresham not named. Replaced by Melksham on field. Hayward moves to 3rd Emerg. CJones to 5th emerg

[SilverLion]

Soft spot for Grope Lane, as they have former Oxford cobbas 2E and AVB.

Reckon Staines will get their 3rd flag in a row though, too much depth in the rucks, mids and defence.

[Rids]

UF will need to be adjusted for Grope Lane btw.

Sorry I didnt get time to change captain etc before start of the rd.

[Ringo]

We have seen the grand final and once again the Steins are triumphant.

They have an adjustment of 21 to be added to their score with Allen replacing Taberner not AMT

Final result Staines Steins 2111 defeay Grope Lane Giants 1840.

Steins had too many consistent players that the Giants were not able to match. Giants were always behind the eight ball against Steins twin Rucks in Grundy and Gawn but they made a great game of it early.  Steins however brought it home well and showed thier dept with 12 of the 15 players scoring over 100 points.

Congratulations to the Steins.