Landers face season-defining match

• Published date: 11 April 2024
• Publication title: Star, The

The Rebels may well stay in the championship for longer than this year, which is a real concern for the Landers, who take them on this Saturday

Predictably the Blues crushed the Force 50-3 and the Jafas now sit alongside the Canes at the top of the pole.

The Chiefs bounced back and put Moana Pasifika to the sword in nearly hitting 70.

The woeful Waratahs capitulated to the Brumbies 16-40 to strengthen the Canberra lads’ position on the table.

Super Rugby needs to have a look at their scheduling, with only four games being played last weekend and not one real contest among them — no wonder crowd numbers are on the decline.

Fred’s [Fred’s Fencing] stay at the top lasted exactly a week and he has tumbled to fourth.

Joshua, from UPVC, leads by one from Scott and Geoff so an incredibly tight race. Warren from Marriner Painters had the best round with the perfect score to leap from last to second last – great work mate.

So, is this week’s curtailed draw (only four games) any better? In a word, yes.

Moana Pasifika host the Reds, which in itself is bizarre as they don’t really have a home ground. I’m afraid the Reds (13+) will probably be too good although we’d prefer that not to be the case.

The Crusaders (13+) are in...