The Rugby Shorts: PenRats, Baby Rats, Lane, Blake and Hart
by Brendan Bradford –
PenRats –
It’s not always all about winning. It’s not even always about rugby. The latest evidence of this came on Saturday afternoon at Rat Park where the Warringah Colts hosted Penrith. The Emus often struggle to get numbers when they play away from home, and so it was last Saturday with plenty of Penrith players in Grade and Colts forced to back up for more than one game.
First Colts kicked off on the front field and an already seriously depleted Penrith side soon lost five players through injury. The tiring but brave Emus were on the verge of being forced to reluctantly forfeit the match when the Warringah reserve players took it upon themselves to pull on a Penrith jersey, fill the numbers and play against their own teammates.
Rats Colts Nicholas Condon, Sandy Butterworth, Camero