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It was a huge roll up to Saturday nights river cruise onboard the 'Lady Cutler' and the Bernards boys and fans celebrated two wins over Skevs.

The Seniors retained the prestigeous Justin 'Joc' O'Connor trophy with an 8 point win and the Reserves kept ther unbeaten record in tact with a strong eighteen 18 point win.

All the nights pics will be on the GALLERY page shortly.

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Marty 'Moon Walkin' Byrnes rocks the crowd.

Josh and George sing the 'Bocca' song

 Lauren Hilbert and Mary Madden enjoy the 'Bocca'

Supporters were shaking their heads at quarter time ... after looking a far superior side the scoreboard showed only a two point lead at the first break. With St Kevs midfield getting on top we limped into the main break trailing by 10 points. After coach Simon Madden gave the boys a spray the third quarter was a different story with  Bernards slamming on 7.2 to inaccurate Skevs 1.6

Not to be denied Skevs with Simpson and Dowd now dominating the stoppages came again and got within two points before a strong mark and goal from Alex Jolley closed the game for an 8 point victory. Our best: Tom Caven, Nic Cattapan, Justin Evans, Chris Mitchell, Alex Jolley and Luke O'Sullivan.

Prez Mick Overman accepts the 'JOC' from Justin O'Connor's sister Michelle

Reigning premiers St Kevs had set themselves for a big game all week and came ready to have a real dip at Bernards. In a torrid battle in the first three quarters the Bernards boys proved a little fitter and got their run going to finally snuff out the Skevs challenge.

Jesse Manunzio (picured right) led the way with great support from Brendan Ryan, David Blunt and Kyle Dalmau. Andrew Smith was a rock down back and AJ Mitchell finished the good work off with four majors at full forward.

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Jesse Manunzio starred day and night

The whisper during the week was that the Brightton boys had been keeping an eye on my Warrior reports and when I let slip that the hordes were planning a five chook kill pre match it was all too much ... yep they didn't show up ... forfeited!

Now we know that the Bwyton tribe have always been noted as being more 'downhill skiers' than 'brave in battle' but in this case they have shown a distinct lack of class and worse they have angered the warrior hordes ... didn't they realise they are scheduled to play the hordes again in round 13?

Back at the campfire last night I saw a strange and ominous sight ... Jonny ‘Horrible’ Hellard, Mick ‘the Irish Mawler’ Moloney and Paul ‘Gruesome’ Gilmour were tattooing a sixth chook with the words ... Round 13!

The infuriated hordes will head to Fitzroy next week.

Pete van Meels young side battled manfully against a strong Ivanhoe side. The boys managed to stay in touch until half time trailing by just 16 points but Ivanhoe had too many answers in the second half before running out 51 point winners at the final bell.

Star West Australian recruit Johhny Purdie continues his development at 'the Pit' and was our best player on the day. Others to shine for Bernards were big Ryan O''Dea, Peter Mugavin, Justin Monaghan, Joel Cribbina and Pat Gamwell