Mount pack go on try Binge

They're a cunning breed, these props.
Most of the spectators at Blake Park on Saturday _ and at least one bemused reporter _ thought they'd seen Mount prop Scott Weir score for the home side in their emphatic 33-17 win over Te Puke Sports.
The colourful 34-year-old veteran, nicknamed Binge, had driven in hard at the Te Puke line 15 minutes into the second half, stopped on the line and was seemingly driven over.
The fact that he stood up with the ball, saluted the crowd and raised his arms skyward tended to suggest he'd broken a try-scoring drought stretching back the best part of four years.
Even after the match he was still trying to claim it, albeit with a mischievous glint in his eye, until he was sprung by six-year-old son Dylan, who'd been watching with younger brother Jhan.
"You didn't really score a try, did you dad?" Dylan enquired, searchingly.
Well, no, he hadn't. In actual fact young flanker Todd Orchard had completed a fine game, picking the ball up from beside Weir's prone body and advancing it several inches over the line.
It left Weir, who played his 150th game for the club earlier in the season, as the only member of his front-row without a try, after hooker John Pareanga crossed twice and loosehead Mike Ormsby rumbled over after half an hour.
What couldn't be taken away from Weir, however, was his impact on the game.
He was a colossus at scrum time, wrecking Te Puke's much-vaunted pack and seriously denting their potential title ambitions.
"We had a lot of scrums _ it must have been the most scrums of any I've ever had in a game. I loved it," Weir said.
Much has been made of the losses Mount suffered when the Steamers were pulled out of club rugby last week, with Warren Smith, Colin Bourke, Mike Delany and James Afoa all sitting out Saturday's match.
But Weir believes that may have been blown out of proportion.
"We only had the likes of Bourkey and Warren play in the last few matches while they got some game-time but we've still got that good core of a team there which is bringing us through."
Te Puke weren't helped by hooker Simon Chisholm and prop Matt Wallis backing up from the Bay of Plenty match with Counties-Manukau just 19 hours beforehand. The pair looked lethargic and were perhaps regretting their club dedication by the end.
There were only a few bright spots for the visitors, with openside flanker David Whitecliff-Davies _ bearing resemblance to a mini Josh Kronfeld _ scoring after seven minutes and first-five Andy Miller's try on halftime.
The veteran pivot plucked a pass out of the sky with 45m of open field in front of him, and got to the line more through sheer tenacity than flat-out pace.
But once Mount turned with the wind only 17-14 down, they were in complete control. They scored 19 unanswered points and won back the Jordan Cup challenge trophy they'd lost to Te Puke in the first round.
Try or no try, that was good enough for Scott Weir, who headed for the changing sheds whistling, regaling his two proud sons with the try that might have been.