The Intrust Super Shute Shield fixtures computer certainly has a delicious sense of irony. Either that or a mischievous hidden logarithm, programmed to prescribe clashes that are a repeat of seismic encounters just a few short months earlier, or that pitch players and coaches against their former sides as soon as possible.

An opening day win over the highly-fancied West Harbour caused more than a few eyebrows to raise in the direction of Woollahra Oval in round one of the 2018 Intrust Super Shute Shield. So a full-time score of 52-0 over Gordon at Chatswood Oval last weekend won’t exactly have dampened the new-found enthusiasm building around Eastern Suburbs.

It’s only early days in the 2018 Intrust Super Shute Shield competition, but Eastern Suburbs are serving due notice that they are a team to be taken seriously after racking up their second win in a row with a resounding 52-0 defeat of Gordon at the weekend.