By MARK CASHMAN

A wise and very rugby savvy friend of mine, Andrew Logan, always used to say that coaches have two, maybe three “blow up deluxe” cards per season.

You know those sort of chats you sometimes have to have with a team to draw a line in the sand and hopefully bring about some sort of major behavioural change.

Well according to Eastwood’s wily scrum half Matt Gonzalez, their passionate first grade boss Ben Batger has only one of those cards left in his hand for the rest of the Shute Shield season.

“They’re very animated that’s for sure and it shows what he can see in us and where he thinks we should be in terms of how we are playing,” Gonzalez told Rugby News.