Blayney called players up from under 18s and first grade for the premier league clash at Jack Arrow Sporting Complex on Sunday. 

St Pat’s captain-coach Greg Behan said the team had to dig deep to get the win, the team’s fourth of the Group 10 season.

“It was a good win in the end but we killed ourselves.

“Blayney were down on numbers and they scrapped a team together to get on the field today.

“Huge respect to Blayney and their players. They dug deep and they were there the whole time. Full credit to them.” 

Things started brightly for the visitors, as under 18s youngster Isaac Lettice scored but Zach Stammers was stretchered off after injuring himself in the set following the try. 

St Pat’s quickly responded through Caleb Wardman to bring the score back to 6-4 and then Holman grabbed his first four pointer of the day.

It wasn’t until six minutes to go in the first half that Blayney fullback Carter Hirini scored and Mitch Evers slotted home the conversion for a 12-10.

However, Blayney started the better team in the second-half and Ricky Scott dived under the posts after five minutes and Evers converted to give the visitors a 18-16 lead. 

Tim Holman soon scored his second of the afternoon and then McCoy White bagged one to give his side a 24-18 buffer. 

It looked like St Pat’s might run away with it but Blayney had other ideas. 

Evers intercepted a St Pat’s ball and soon found Lettice 20 metres out from the try line. 

Lettice looked to have been covered by the chasing players, but, channelling his inner Benji Marshall, laid up an incredible flick pass to the supporting Evers, who buried himself over the score line.

With 20 minutes to full-time, it was game on at 24-22.

But that was as close as Blayney got as Wardman, Sam Dwyer, Holman and Nathan Redding all scored before full-time to give St Pat’s a comfortable 46-22 win.