Eastwood maul Northern Suburbs
By Henry Jacobs
Eastwood scored eight tries to defeat Norths 72-29 in its Shute Shield round 11 match at North Sydney Oval on Saturday.
After a close opening period, John Manenti’s side was too strong in the second half and came out the comprehensive victor.
“Some of our attack today was as good as it has been all year, we found out where the space was and worked it well,” Manenti said.
“I was kind of surprised that the scoreboard just accumulated, I wouldnt have thought the teams were that far apart . . . once we held the ball it was just a matter of building pressure.”
After a victory over Randwick last week put Norths in touch with the top four, coach Simon Cron was unhappy with its defensive effort.
“We had plenty of opportunities in this game and we didn’t take any of them really, one on one missed tackles from certain guys in the team just opened us up,” Cron said.
“Eastwood roll it up hard, so you’ve got to have line speed on them and today we didn’t