With a player called Woolf on one side, and a prop with enough facial tape to resemble a mummy on the other, this always had the potential to be a horror show. Unfortunately for Gordon, that’s exactly how it played out, a local derby that rapidly turned into a nightmare as they went down to Northern Suburbs 44-15 at North Sydney Oval on Sunday.

Ask most shrewd judges in and around Sydney club rugby for their opinion on Josh Holmes and they’ll all say the same thing –“I can’t believe he hasn’t got a Super Rugby contract.” And if you’d had the pleasure of watching his performances for Warringah over the last 12 months, you’d find it pretty difficult to make a case against him being one of the top fifteen scrumhalves in the country.