Kempsey Cannonballs duo Braden Farrawell and Tasi Afoa won’t be forgetting Mid North Coast’s historic NSW Country Championship tier two title win anytime soon.
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Both played an important role in helping the Axemen representative side lift the Richardson Shield for the first time, after they defeated Far North Coast at the NSW Country Championships at Port Macquarie on Sunday.
It was the first time the pair had been selected for the Axemen representative side, with Farrawell starting at flanker and Afoa coming off the bench at prop.
Farrawell said the representative arena was a big step-up from the Upper Mid North Coast club rugby competition.
“It’s heaps quicker, those guys just keep coming,” he said.
Farrawell said it was “awesome” to be part of the inaugural tier two winning team.
“It was unbelievable – six months ago the coach (Angus Anderson) asked who thought we could win it and less than half the people there put the hand up.”
He put the turnaround in attitude and performance to the representative squad’s dedicated training regime.
Farrawell, who is also the captain of Kempsey’s first-grade side, is hoping he and Afoa can bring back that winning attitude to the club, after the Cannonballs lost the grand final last season to the Port Macquarie Vikings.
“We want to win it this year,” he said.
