Although the scoreline doesn't show it, Walcha's rout of Robb College in their final round clash saw two contrasting halves.
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The now-New England Rugby Union minor premiers struggled to hold onto the ball in the opening 40 minutes of the encounter but still found themselves in front 22-7 at the break.
Walcha co-coach Hyde Thomson labelled their constant errors as "shocking" but didn't have to say too much to the side at half-time.
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"Everyone was equally upset," he said.
"It is something we talk about every week; 'slow it down, slow it down, slow it down.'
"We were just too fast for our own good.
"We just think we are going to score every play.
"That is one thing we really wanted to do this week - maintain our control and our structure - and we didn't.
"We just talked about it and didn't deliver."
But they did deliver in the second stanza, posting 52 unanswered points to land the 74-7 win.
A handful of players didn't finish the game, mostly precautionary, including Simon Newton who Thomson named as best on ground.
"Nothing serious, just a few different niggles," he said.
"We had a few things we wanted to try with a couple of people.
"We didn't want to push anything."
The victory landed them the minor premiership and will face Tamworth in the major semi-final next Saturday.
Of the minor premiership win, Thomson was rapt to land the title of "best team in the zone."
"Proud of the boys, best team in the zone again," he said.
"They are a great side, no doubt about it," he said.
"I am lucky most of them have been together for a fair while so it is even better.
"They work hard, they train really hard, our own success gets in our way sometimes."
"We just have got to be able to play finals footy instead of 10s footy, or 7s footy."
On the other side of the scoreboard was the struggling Robb College who were decimated by injury after starting the season low on numbers.
Despite being on the receiving end of a thrashing, coach Dave McCathie was upbeat.
"While it was disappointing, I am not disappointed in the boys, I am disappointed for them," he said.
"But Walcha are a very, very good football team who have been together for a long time and been in three or four grand finals in a row, pretty much with the same core team.
"Our boys, we have probably had five or six weeks together as a group with a couple of months' break in between and a couple of weeks' holidays but I am not offering any excuses for the games like today.
"The fact we only ended up with three boys from our grand final team last year, playing this year, while it makes it harder, it is encouraging for next year.
"Most of the team will be back and hopefully the rest of the college comes back and we get our numbers back to where we are used to."