Des Hasler after realising he’d saved his arse and wasn’t going to be able to go on a mid-season trip to Hawaii

There was an important historical anniversary this week…

It was 90 years since the greatest winning margin and greatest score in First Grade history, on May 11, 1935.

St George defeated the first year Canterbury-Bankstown team 91-6 at Earl Park in Arncliffe, scoring 14 tries & 68 points in the second half alone, which also remains the record for the most points scored in any half of play.

Les Griffin scored a First Grade record 36 points for the Red V (2 tries and a record 15 goals), a scoring record that stood for all of 1 week as the Immortal Dave Brown scored a record 45 points (5 tries and a joint record 15 goals) when Eastern Suburbs played Canterbury the next week and won 87-7, which is forever the second-greatest score and margin in First Grade history.

Dave Brown has the two highest scoring individual games in First Grade history, they being 45 and 38 points, both of them being against Canterbury in separate games in 1935.

Canterbury won only 2 games in their first year (Both against the winless University), averaged the most points against in league history (41.25) and recorded what was the worst points differential in league history (-510, eventually bested by the 1982 Canberra Raiders), but the next year the Berries got revenge on St George and made the finals for the first time, and won the premiership in their fourth year in 1938, defeating Easts.

Funnily enough, Canterbury and Easts are playing each other this Friday on Channel Nine.

THAT SAID, HERE’S ROUND 11, BECAUSE BETWEEN LOOKING AFTER THE DOG AND PLAYING BOWLS I RAN OUT OF TIME:

Could’ve had 6 or 7 last week…

The only problem was, there was 6 blown leads from 8 games.

Round 10 score = 3/8

Progressive Score = 43/80 (53.75%)

And for a musical number… here’s the Wichita Lineman himself, Glen Campbell!