No Time to Settle

The Salty Pigs have been there when the shadows get long on Sunday afternoon. They’ve felt what the weekend asks when it tightens.

In their first year, they arrived as a spectacle, bright pink kits, a surfing pig swilling a beer, before being bundled out in the quarterfinals. A year later, the novelty was gone. Four gritty wins, all by two points or fewer, carried them all the way to runners-up.

An aggressive team coupled with the ability to run the two days out makes them a threat to all. Cohesion follows when you’ve got the Marschke twins, Ben and Jesse Marshke,  with a group of mates who have been together since under-twenty system days.

When the energy is high and the margins are small, that combination keeps them alive longer than most teams expect.

Pool One is designed to test that margin early. The Salty Pigs have already run into the same problem here before. Their performances have only seen losses against the Dawgs and Reborn who share this pool.

The Salty Pigs play on an edge that keeps them competitive late. It also invites scrutiny. In a format where penalties shorten weekends and send-offs end them, that balance becomes harder to manage as games stack up.

A fast start matters here. The Pigs know their game and they know how to tighten it. Pool One will test whether they can do that early enough for it to matter.