Reserve Boars suffered a tough 38-14 defeat, alongside the juniors, going down 28-26, and ladies league tag, defeated 24-14. First grade Boars coach Trevor Tighe said it was a good win for the local squad, but said the team lacked cohesion in the first half.

“We just weren’t playing as a team and just too quiet. If you have no-one performing on the field, then people just can’t know where they are going. Just the discipline side of it, we spoke about that and it picked up from there,” he said.

The Boars rallied in the half time break, he said, and returned to the field to play “a completely different game”. 

“In the second half we played football, sticking to our plan and trying to run their big blokes around, and it all paid off in the end.”  He said when the local squad pulled together, they proved a tough team to beat, but added the Boars were taking the competition one week at a time. The Magpies fielded a number of junior and reserve grade players, but still proved a tough squad to beat, Tighe said. 

“These blokes, some of them had already played two games, and to come and play a third game...” he said.

“They stuck it out with us in the first half and I thought if they had a few more of their first graders, it could have been a completely different game.”  

The Boars move to their next match against the Ashford Roosters on Saturday and Tighe said the team would be looking to play consistent and cohesive football.

“You go and stick to your plan. If you go off that plan, you seem to go downhill,” he said. “Ashford had a good win against Warialda; they came back from behind last week. At the end of the day, if we aren’t on our game over there, it can soon turn into an upset.”