Round 14 Winter - Seccers 3 Allstars 3 (Allstars win 4-3 on missing t-shirt rule)
What happened fellas?
The stars were certainly our of alignment for the last game of the season as a multitude of excuses done us in for the last game of the round, spoiling a potential unbeaten season and surrendering the minor premiership in the penultimate round.
Well, it all started when your correspondent was in the sheds, talking to that midget sized Argentina fellow, who we'll play next week. I was saying we wouldn't be playing them next week in the semi's unless we drop this game. Don't drop it he said. Hey, you never know... I replied. Fark I regret those words now!!!
So it wasn't a great start to the night. Only me and Psycho were there when the game was due to commence. But in quick fire, 1/2 leg Burkie, Grimmo, Andy Schlek and Haydos rocked up and we started with 6. We were huffing and puffing quite early and we were almost glad to see that JJ Buckstar had rolled up, but the boys were screaming at him to take off his tracksuit and hoodie. But it was to be revealed, he had forgotten his t-shirt.
Some sneaky tshirt switcherooing in the sub box was finally noticed by the refs, probably from a tip off from one of the old whining bastards from Allstars. This cost us, what ended up being a vital 1 touchdown and the game.
At that point we had just conceded 2 touchdowns, the first a ridiculous decision after the attacker walked about 5 metres off the mark and they followed up with a forward pass to score in the corner. That's when we realised the ground controller, in his retarded wisdom, had put on a rookie ref who had barely any idea what was going on. But we were more irritated that the more experienced ref James (what is it with shit ref's named james?) who never offered his advice or overruled blatantly obvious mistakes.
There 2nd pie was fair, and we hit back before half time with JJ Buckstar cancelling out his tshirt, putting me over for a soft one.
We clawed our way back and I'm sure we hit the lead with 2 good tries, but in fact it was 3-3. We just needed to hold them the next 6 touches after the tap off, however, Burkie, who appeared to have more than half his leg missing (try one half of his body) inexcusably called JJ Buckman the wrong side to defend, as the Allstars ran the other way for a simple 3 on 2 and touchdown, which proved to be our undoing.
But once again, it was the one that got away. At least 2 touchdowns were in explicitly denied by the refs. One was a joke when JJ Buckstar (seemed to be in everything good and bad) ran past Keithy Brandy who was standing about 3 metres offside and set up the winner. But it was called back, because the little bastard called the touch and the rookie believed him.
And there were many dropped balls and terrible schoolboy forward passes for certain tries.
We should have been winners by 4 or 5, but we sank in the mud, as the lack of subs and the pressure too it's toll.
So we've got a good semi final on our hands again the pretend over ACT 40s. Hopefully we can win a tough battle which can give us a much needed hard game in prep for the GF. But we have to win first.
Let's get there fellas.
Footnote
There was a bit of drama at the end of the game, when one of the Allstars dislocated his finger, and Dr Grimspoon gallantly tried his best to pop it back in for him, but it may have been jammed in further after one of the ex-leaguies in the Allstars team (aka Keith Brandy) thought it looked easy on TV and was seen reefind the finger like it was a popped shoulder. I kind-of felt a little bad after the incident, as at the moment it happened, we were running out of time and the game stopped while he was in obvious pain. "farking hurry up and get off the field, it's not your bloody foot mate..." I said...
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Rain is no problems for the Seccernaut
Round 13 Winter - Seccers 5 Cruciates 2
Someone will have to fill in the details of the first half as I rocked up a bit late.
The boys did it tough with no subs, then 1 and finally 2 for the second half. The half time score was 1-0 to the good guys in the constant rain.
After the break we were denied a certain try when the wee lass of a referee forgot the 5m rule as the lazy defender was minced meat. And then the Soulmann had a little implosion as he put on a dolly 2 handed touch which was fell into the trap as the opposition acted it up well and sucked in the penalty, which ended up resulting in a soft try down the wing on the following play. Scores 1-1 and the opposition had a sniff.
But the Seccers were soon back in control with some nice backline moves and opened up a 2 try lead with some good hands by the JJ Buckstar, Andy Shleck, X-man and the rest. Grimmo's hammy looked on the mend, although it might be still a bit shorter than the other, as he mistimed his run for a possible try down the blind side and ended up going in circles. And Psycho and Haydos were at it again, but they couldn't quite nail the try after more of their fancy duo work. Woody MoiMoi was his usual self, but he appeared to be more interested in flirting with our first female ref of the season (note, she said she was going to tell his missus, who she knew apparently). She actually ref'd quite well and handled the gibber calmly and rejected the MoiMoi's advances with the correct penalties.
Another soft try to Cruciates, simply marking up incorrectly by us, gave them another sniff and 3-2, but more sweet Seccers backline play had them again on the ropes with 2 more scores and the game secured at 5-2
It was a hard fought victory. Excellent hands despite the weather. But no beers as the damp began to rise and people headed for home.
Last round game next week, and then the semi finals!
Someone will have to fill in the details of the first half as I rocked up a bit late.
The boys did it tough with no subs, then 1 and finally 2 for the second half. The half time score was 1-0 to the good guys in the constant rain.
After the break we were denied a certain try when the wee lass of a referee forgot the 5m rule as the lazy defender was minced meat. And then the Soulmann had a little implosion as he put on a dolly 2 handed touch which was fell into the trap as the opposition acted it up well and sucked in the penalty, which ended up resulting in a soft try down the wing on the following play. Scores 1-1 and the opposition had a sniff.
But the Seccers were soon back in control with some nice backline moves and opened up a 2 try lead with some good hands by the JJ Buckstar, Andy Shleck, X-man and the rest. Grimmo's hammy looked on the mend, although it might be still a bit shorter than the other, as he mistimed his run for a possible try down the blind side and ended up going in circles. And Psycho and Haydos were at it again, but they couldn't quite nail the try after more of their fancy duo work. Woody MoiMoi was his usual self, but he appeared to be more interested in flirting with our first female ref of the season (note, she said she was going to tell his missus, who she knew apparently). She actually ref'd quite well and handled the gibber calmly and rejected the MoiMoi's advances with the correct penalties.
Another soft try to Cruciates, simply marking up incorrectly by us, gave them another sniff and 3-2, but more sweet Seccers backline play had them again on the ropes with 2 more scores and the game secured at 5-2
It was a hard fought victory. Excellent hands despite the weather. But no beers as the damp began to rise and people headed for home.
Last round game next week, and then the semi finals!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Seccers all hands as Buckstar finds a roll of duct tape in his shorts
Round 12 Winter - Seccers 11 Invision Saints 4
So what happened last week?
The first thing I saw, as I rocked up a few minutes after the kickoff, was a razzle dazzling display of Fijiness from Billy Haydos and world record holder Psycho (who was wearing his world champ Rainbow boxer shorts). The 2 put on a show of flick passes, over the head lobs, switches, wrap arounds, you name it, until one of them finally scored this sensational try!
And that was enough for Haydos, as he was quiet again after his traditional huge run and he even decided not to show up in the second half. But he did put a couple of hits on the short whingy bloke from the Saints to wind him up evermore.
The game saw a comeback from the X Man, who put on a solid display and looked quite fit and trim after his long lay off.
But lets focus on the ref, who lets face it, thought the game was all about him and made many decisions that had both camps mightily confused or annoyed. Take for example, when he blew his whistle and called my number repeatedly. I didn't know what the hell he was going on about - surely I was onside - but it turns out the he took a liking to my earring and demanded to wear it before he let play go on. JJ Buckstar magically pulled a huge roll of duct tape out of his playing shorts (accounted for the large packet at the front), threw it over to yours truly, and asked me to gaffa his mellon. I certainly gave the ref a gob full and he pretty much left me along after that.
We were without some of the superstars, including the former world record holder Burkie, who's leg has become withered and gammy and unplayable. And there was Rupes, who's priorities have change and he was playing on the next field for his other team (with absolutely no atmosphere and no Fiji excitement). This treachery was best summed up by Burkie a few days later who said "You are f@#king kidding Rupes????" and Grimmo, who pointed out "What happened to the promised dozen coldies".
But there was a new import, that Rupes is taking credit for recruiting, the young Bowen aka Andy Schleck with his yellow cycle shoes. He put on a fine show with some speed out wide, which was actually a bonus with Rupes missing...
However, back to the ref. We would have scored another sensational try as WRH Psycho, who hit a hole on the burst as yours truly somehow popped the ball up as he headed to the dirt, reached back and somehow caught the ball and dived over. This was all too tricky for the ref who called forward pass because it was too unbelievable for him. Bad call sunshine.
I remember a great solo effort from Woody MoiMoi who's long gadget arms snavelled up an intercept from nothing.
And I remember most of our tries were just simple, wraps, draw the man, pop the pass, quick hands out wide. Simple. Stylish. Effective. In fact on one occasion, we were busting our guts trying to run this way and that, moving the opposition around but just couldn't get through. But then we received a penalty (for our hard earned work) and on the first play we just sent it out the backline and scored without some much of a whimper. It was a bit anti climactic actually.
So that brings me to the next game, which should be a reasonable challenge against the Cruciates who are now running 4th. But every teams seems to be running 4th until they meet us... The previous encounter was a 7-4 win to us, as we struggled with the gay lebanese ref and Burkies incessant dummies. Reminisce about it here.
Then it's one more game to complete the home and away series, against Allstars who are 5th.
The current ladder now has it's own page - there is a link at the top of the blog.
So what happened last week?
The first thing I saw, as I rocked up a few minutes after the kickoff, was a razzle dazzling display of Fijiness from Billy Haydos and world record holder Psycho (who was wearing his world champ Rainbow boxer shorts). The 2 put on a show of flick passes, over the head lobs, switches, wrap arounds, you name it, until one of them finally scored this sensational try!
And that was enough for Haydos, as he was quiet again after his traditional huge run and he even decided not to show up in the second half. But he did put a couple of hits on the short whingy bloke from the Saints to wind him up evermore.
The game saw a comeback from the X Man, who put on a solid display and looked quite fit and trim after his long lay off.
But lets focus on the ref, who lets face it, thought the game was all about him and made many decisions that had both camps mightily confused or annoyed. Take for example, when he blew his whistle and called my number repeatedly. I didn't know what the hell he was going on about - surely I was onside - but it turns out the he took a liking to my earring and demanded to wear it before he let play go on. JJ Buckstar magically pulled a huge roll of duct tape out of his playing shorts (accounted for the large packet at the front), threw it over to yours truly, and asked me to gaffa his mellon. I certainly gave the ref a gob full and he pretty much left me along after that.
We were without some of the superstars, including the former world record holder Burkie, who's leg has become withered and gammy and unplayable. And there was Rupes, who's priorities have change and he was playing on the next field for his other team (with absolutely no atmosphere and no Fiji excitement). This treachery was best summed up by Burkie a few days later who said "You are f@#king kidding Rupes????" and Grimmo, who pointed out "What happened to the promised dozen coldies".
But there was a new import, that Rupes is taking credit for recruiting, the young Bowen aka Andy Schleck with his yellow cycle shoes. He put on a fine show with some speed out wide, which was actually a bonus with Rupes missing...
However, back to the ref. We would have scored another sensational try as WRH Psycho, who hit a hole on the burst as yours truly somehow popped the ball up as he headed to the dirt, reached back and somehow caught the ball and dived over. This was all too tricky for the ref who called forward pass because it was too unbelievable for him. Bad call sunshine.
I remember a great solo effort from Woody MoiMoi who's long gadget arms snavelled up an intercept from nothing.
And I remember most of our tries were just simple, wraps, draw the man, pop the pass, quick hands out wide. Simple. Stylish. Effective. In fact on one occasion, we were busting our guts trying to run this way and that, moving the opposition around but just couldn't get through. But then we received a penalty (for our hard earned work) and on the first play we just sent it out the backline and scored without some much of a whimper. It was a bit anti climactic actually.
So that brings me to the next game, which should be a reasonable challenge against the Cruciates who are now running 4th. But every teams seems to be running 4th until they meet us... The previous encounter was a 7-4 win to us, as we struggled with the gay lebanese ref and Burkies incessant dummies. Reminisce about it here.
Then it's one more game to complete the home and away series, against Allstars who are 5th.
The current ladder now has it's own page - there is a link at the top of the blog.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Nine is the new world record
Round 10 Winter - Seccers 14 Hammer Time 2
A shattered Tim Burkles has handed over his touchdown world record (of 7) to Mike 'The Psycho' Sykes in a scintillating display which saw him bag 9 touchdowns to smash the record.
The new record was ironically achieved against the same team that Burkie made his mark in Round 1 (see Burkie's 7 sets new record in ninja nightmare).
Surely the Seccers must go down in history as the most prolific of prolific scorers.
Other notable mentions was a complete turnaround in JJ Buckstar's game attitude, showing such compassion and allowing a decent young kid, showing lots of promise, to get a consolation meatie to keep his hopes up. JJ Soulmann was not so kind and made the poor kid chase him all the way, but still score in the last inch of the corner with the kid mm's away from a heroic effort, despite the calls from Woody and Grimspoon to call the touch anyway. "Stick your hand up kid" said Grim.
And there was another guest appearance of the deadly sniper who shot out Grimpsoon's hammy close to his bum and he fell over in a messy heap. But he still courageously played on, defending on the wing to keep 6 players on the paddock.
So congrats to Psycho for his 9. It's going to be hard to beat.
A shattered Tim Burkles has handed over his touchdown world record (of 7) to Mike 'The Psycho' Sykes in a scintillating display which saw him bag 9 touchdowns to smash the record.
The new record was ironically achieved against the same team that Burkie made his mark in Round 1 (see Burkie's 7 sets new record in ninja nightmare).
Surely the Seccers must go down in history as the most prolific of prolific scorers.
Summer 2008-09 - Woody moi moi 1 touchdown in a game
Summer 2008-09 - Haydos 4 touchdowns in a game
Summer 2009-10 - Soulmann 6 touchdowns in a game
Winter 2010 - Burkie 7 touchdowns in a game
Winter 2010 - Psycho 9 touchdowns in a gameWith only 6 players for the entire game (starting with only 5 for the first 10 minutes) there were less players to compete for the meat pies. Not that it made much difference as JJ Buckstar and Woody Moi Moi were scoreless in the thumping. But Psycho was in everything. You'd think he was hogging the ball and taking it easy in defence to rest up for another crack. far from it. He was chasing his ring around defending the middle and then the he'd turn defence into attack scoring each and everyone of his tries from long range runs, mostly solo efforts. In fact his tally could have been 10 or 11 cept for a couple of dropped balls as he started to choke up as the record got nearer.
Other notable mentions was a complete turnaround in JJ Buckstar's game attitude, showing such compassion and allowing a decent young kid, showing lots of promise, to get a consolation meatie to keep his hopes up. JJ Soulmann was not so kind and made the poor kid chase him all the way, but still score in the last inch of the corner with the kid mm's away from a heroic effort, despite the calls from Woody and Grimspoon to call the touch anyway. "Stick your hand up kid" said Grim.
And there was another guest appearance of the deadly sniper who shot out Grimpsoon's hammy close to his bum and he fell over in a messy heap. But he still courageously played on, defending on the wing to keep 6 players on the paddock.
So congrats to Psycho for his 9. It's going to be hard to beat.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
SERVER RACKS SERVED UP ON A STRATSEC PLATTER
Round 9 Winter - Seccers 8 Server Racks 3
by Rupes
The game started off a little slowly with only 2-3 players on hand at 6.50 kick-off time. By the time we actually started 5 mins later we had 5 players with several on the way across the fields/road.
We ended up with a total of 9 players and were missing the big guns of Messrs Collet, Stejskal, Crossman and the little guns of the Mann. We welcomed the great man - Seagull who was looking for a pre-match warm-up.
The ACT 0/40’s aka the Server Racks, clicked straight into gear and quickly crossed the stripe for their first. From then on it was a few for the good guys with both sides trying to assert their Masters superiority.
We lost the spring chicken Bourkie just before oranges with a sniper or was that a hole, getting him in the calf. Someone asked him if it was bad and he answered in the affirmative - “Yeah it is bad”.
3-1 at drinks I think.
The second half started like the first with the ‘guns’ coming up with 2 to get back to deuce. And then all of a sudden the wind changed. Absolute vintage footy was the order of the night. I would have to say it was probably the best 20 mins ever played by the boys. The Oompahs had no answer to the switches, dummies, hard running, dives, defence, wrap arounds.
Final score 8-3 and the Seccer's boys walked off in quiet jubilation.
Some other notable highlights were:
Notable quotes from the post match press conference:
Ladder after Round 9
All teams have played each other now and the top 2 teams look likely grand final contenders for another spiteful affair. Surprisingly Tigers fell out of the 4 with a surprise draw with Cruciates.
by Rupes
The game started off a little slowly with only 2-3 players on hand at 6.50 kick-off time. By the time we actually started 5 mins later we had 5 players with several on the way across the fields/road.
We ended up with a total of 9 players and were missing the big guns of Messrs Collet, Stejskal, Crossman and the little guns of the Mann. We welcomed the great man - Seagull who was looking for a pre-match warm-up.
The ACT 0/40’s aka the Server Racks, clicked straight into gear and quickly crossed the stripe for their first. From then on it was a few for the good guys with both sides trying to assert their Masters superiority.
We lost the spring chicken Bourkie just before oranges with a sniper or was that a hole, getting him in the calf. Someone asked him if it was bad and he answered in the affirmative - “Yeah it is bad”.
3-1 at drinks I think.
The second half started like the first with the ‘guns’ coming up with 2 to get back to deuce. And then all of a sudden the wind changed. Absolute vintage footy was the order of the night. I would have to say it was probably the best 20 mins ever played by the boys. The Oompahs had no answer to the switches, dummies, hard running, dives, defence, wrap arounds.
Final score 8-3 and the Seccer's boys walked off in quiet jubilation.
Some other notable highlights were:
- Woody running on the treadmill and his classic tap up intercept,
- Seagull scoring a try while crawling the last 5 metres,
- the CEO and Rupes getting down low and go,go,go and
- JJbuckbuck talking jibber to the refs for 50 mins straight.
Late in the game, one of Server Rack's Argentinian superstars ran on with one of those fcuking annoying plastic vuvuzela's to change the momentum of the game, but he was swiftly dealt with by Zinedine Zidane, whose guest appearance for the Seccers earned a rousing reception from the players.
(click the photo to see the video replay of the incident)
(click the photo to see the video replay of the incident)
Notable quotes from the post match press conference:
- Burkie said "Honestly all those tries were genuine tries where numbers were created and their defence exploited. All except Cody’s try from a tap. Seriously how could they let that happen! Next thing you know we’ll be scoring off maggots!"
- JJ from Good Times’ said "DYNOMITE !!"
- Grimspoon said "Lets just say, the mens “ACT over 40s” team…is highly over rated! - And we don’t train either!"
- JJ Buck said "The real ACT o'40s team smashed them with no less than 5 o'40s stars either crook or awol! What might the score have been w all the boys on deck?? Coach killer these stratsec legends!!"
- Willy said "Interesting call there Grim. By the sounds of it our nemesis teams are all whippets. Does hitting the pavement count or lifting weights like you mean it matter??"
Ladder after Round 9
All teams have played each other now and the top 2 teams look likely grand final contenders for another spiteful affair. Surprisingly Tigers fell out of the 4 with a surprise draw with Cruciates.
POS TEAM P W L D B BP FF For Ag Diff PC Pts
1 Seccers 9 8 0 1 0 0 0 76 21 55 361.90 26
2 Shooters TFC 9 7 0 2 0 0 0 66 37 29 178.38 25
3 Server Racks 9 6 3 0 0 0 0 70 32 38 218.75 21
4 Cruciates 9 5 3 1 0 0 0 58 35 23 165.71 20
5 Analytic Allstars 9 4 3 2 0 0 0 66 40 26 165.00 19
6 Tiger Electrics 9 5 2 1 0 0 1 60 41 19 146.34 19
7 Ninja Cats TFC 9 2 6 1 0 0 0 33 70 -37 47.14 14
8 Invision Saints 9 2 7 0 0 0 0 46 74 -28 62.16 13
9 HTW 9 2 7 0 0 0 0 26 79 -53 32.91 13
10 Hammer Time 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 17 89 -72 19.10 9
Leaving touchdowns on the paddock yet again
Round 8 Winter - Seccers 5 Tiger Electrics 2
No proper blog for this round unfortunately.
It's been a few weeks since the event, but this is what I remember:
No proper blog for this round unfortunately.
It's been a few weeks since the event, but this is what I remember:
- again it was a case of leaving a lot of touchdowns on the paddock - if it weren't for our dodgy finishing, we would be creaming the fellow top teams by 10....
- there was another bulldozing billy haydos run (of course only one) which resulted in another fine try to the opening touchman
- Woody scored one of his trademark tries (and showed up with yet another cut on his head with stitches recently removed)
- The Greyhound from the opposition was well and truly marked out of the game
we never really looked in trouble, except for 2 soft tries just before halftime
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Courage, ticker, never say die, great moves, great defence, bombed tries, broken noses...
Round 7 Winter - Seccers 5 Mafia Shooters 5
Courage, ticker, never say die, great moves, great defence, bombed tries, broken noses, mouthy wogboys, knee deep mud, the return of the slightly larger boss... It was a game that had it all.
[I forgot to mention - this was the top of the table clash with both teams undefeated]
Seccers were down 1-3 early in the first half as they exploited our weakness of shortside defence. And there was an arsey backwards over the head pass that caught us by surprise.
However another barnstorming run by Billy Haydos kick-started the fightback.
Seccers hit the lead at 4-3 shortly after break, but we could have blown away the 'passionate' italians if not for 4 or 5 bombed touchdowns over the line. Imagine how much they would have fought themselves if those tries had stuck.
But the score could have also blown out the other way if not for some great defence.
The best 2 were Woody's professional foul ball & all tackle on the wing which saved a certain try. Lucky the soulman tipped off the ref that he slipped in the mud. That excuse also probably saved Frankenwood from being beaten up by the irate Mediterranean and avoided another trip to the hospital for a stitch-up repair job.
Unfortunately the same could not be said for Haydos who put his nose on the line with a try stopper. But instead of his plan to beat up some olives, his dive resulted in a bloody nose from a stray boot. After the game Xman asked Haydos if his nose was always this bent. Soulman made it worse by saying the same thing almost word for word. Hey, it had a bigger bend than Beckham.
It was back to 4-4 before Seccers looked to have sealed the game with a pass that finally stuck. But it was not to be as the one and only penalty for mouthing (no surprises it was JJ Buck), after the olive boys had been getting away with it all game, led to the 5-5 equaliser.
So we are still undefeated & it makes for an interesting finals series with a possible rematch on the cards.
Awesome turn-up for the big game lads.
Postscript.
I had to ref with Pierre in the next game. At halftime after he explained why he penalised 10 people for rolling the ball incorrectly & how he made the top 24 refs in Dubbo...
I said "anyway back to our game, that was a shit penalising us for mouthing."
he says he "gave both teams a warning".
"but they were the only team doing it you pillock & you penalise our first offence for telling one of them to shut up".
"that could have caused a fight he said".
"shut up..."
Ladder
Courage, ticker, never say die, great moves, great defence, bombed tries, broken noses, mouthy wogboys, knee deep mud, the return of the slightly larger boss... It was a game that had it all.
[I forgot to mention - this was the top of the table clash with both teams undefeated]
Seccers were down 1-3 early in the first half as they exploited our weakness of shortside defence. And there was an arsey backwards over the head pass that caught us by surprise.
However another barnstorming run by Billy Haydos kick-started the fightback.
Seccers hit the lead at 4-3 shortly after break, but we could have blown away the 'passionate' italians if not for 4 or 5 bombed touchdowns over the line. Imagine how much they would have fought themselves if those tries had stuck.
But the score could have also blown out the other way if not for some great defence.
The best 2 were Woody's professional foul ball & all tackle on the wing which saved a certain try. Lucky the soulman tipped off the ref that he slipped in the mud. That excuse also probably saved Frankenwood from being beaten up by the irate Mediterranean and avoided another trip to the hospital for a stitch-up repair job.
Unfortunately the same could not be said for Haydos who put his nose on the line with a try stopper. But instead of his plan to beat up some olives, his dive resulted in a bloody nose from a stray boot. After the game Xman asked Haydos if his nose was always this bent. Soulman made it worse by saying the same thing almost word for word. Hey, it had a bigger bend than Beckham.
It was back to 4-4 before Seccers looked to have sealed the game with a pass that finally stuck. But it was not to be as the one and only penalty for mouthing (no surprises it was JJ Buck), after the olive boys had been getting away with it all game, led to the 5-5 equaliser.
So we are still undefeated & it makes for an interesting finals series with a possible rematch on the cards.
Awesome turn-up for the big game lads.
Postscript.
I had to ref with Pierre in the next game. At halftime after he explained why he penalised 10 people for rolling the ball incorrectly & how he made the top 24 refs in Dubbo...
I said "anyway back to our game, that was a shit penalising us for mouthing."
he says he "gave both teams a warning".
"but they were the only team doing it you pillock & you penalise our first offence for telling one of them to shut up".
"that could have caused a fight he said".
"shut up..."
Ladder
| POS | TEAM | P | W | L | D | B | BP | FF | For | Ag | Diff | PC | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seccers | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 16 | 47 | 393.75 | 20 | |
| 2 | Server Rack Australia | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 17 | 46 | 370.59 | 19 | |
| 3 | Shooters TFC | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 31 | 17 | 154.84 | 19 | |
| 4 | Tiger Electrics | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 54 | 32 | 22 | 168.75 | 16 | |
| 5 | Analytic Allstars | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 31 | 17 | 154.84 | 14 | |
| 6 | Cruciates | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 28 | 19 | 167.86 | 12 | |
| 7 | Invision Saints | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 55 | -15 | 72.73 | 11 | |
| 8 | Ninja Cats TFC | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 60 | -35 | 41.67 | 11 | |
| 9 | HTW | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 75 | -59 | 21.33 | 7 | |
| 10 | Hammer Time | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 72 | -59 | 18.06 | 7 |
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Mid season stats cause i'm bored
Seccer's stats after 6 rounds
- Best winning streak - 6(and counting)
- Biggest win - 14-0 (round 1 v Hammer Time, who are surprisingly coming last)
- Smallest win - 7-4 (round 4 v Cruciates, who are currently 5th)
- Record against other top 4 teams (Shooters TFC, Tiger Electrics, Server Racks - haven't played them yet - could be why they are still in the top 4 ;-) big challenge as we have them in our next 3 games.
- Average touchdowns scored per game - 9.66
- Average touchdowns conceded per game - 1.8
- Most balls dropped per game (from the chest) - 14 (Xman)
- Big Billy Haydos barn-storming runs per game 2.5 (that's all he can manage)
- World record touchdowns scored by one player in a game - 7 (Burkles)
- Leading hamstring twangs 7 (Rupes)
- Leading defensive sneaks by JJ Buckstar - 45 (called for offside 22)
- Most bloodied noses, chins and foreheads (received) - 3 (WoodyMoiMoi)
- Appearances by CEO Dug Stew - 0 (yes, that's zero!)
- Dummies to team mates in scoring situations, leading to NO score - Burkles, Rounds 1-4 at least 10 per game, Rounds 5 & 6 (amazingly he's passed the ball)
- Players with close resemblance to Graham 'Wombat' Eadie - 1 (Willy)
- Front teeth found on the paddock - 1
- Gold necklaces found on the paddock - 0 (reward se.x. by cute blonde for finding necklance - 0)
| POS | TEAM | P | W | L | D | B | BP | FF | For | Ag | Diff | PC | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seccers | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 11 | 47 | 527.27 | 18 | |
| 2 | Shooters TFC | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 26 | 17 | 165.38 | 17 | |
| 3 | Server Rack Australia | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 16 | 34 | 312.50 | 16 | |
| 4 | Tiger Electrics | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 30 | 14 | 146.67 | 13 | |
| 5 | Cruciates | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 27 | 12 | 144.44 | 12 | |
| 6 | Analytic Allstars | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 28 | 10 | 135.71 | 11 | |
| 7 | Invision Saints | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 45 | -7 | 84.44 | 10 | |
| 8 | Ninja Cats TFC | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 52 | -28 | 46.15 | 10 | |
| 9 | HTW | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 62 | -47 | 24.19 | 6 | |
| 10 | Hammer Time | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 62 | -52 | 16.13 | 6 |
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Seccers invalids just able to run and remain unbeaten
Round 6 Winter - Seccers 7 HTW 2 (official score)
[story updated]
With most of the so called stars missing from action & 2 legends of the game missing limbs & hamstrings & unable to run on to the ball, let alone catch it, the seccers were on a hiding to nothing.
Of course you knew i was talking about Xman (whose x factor is dropping the ball in all imaginable ways) & Rupert, both whose hammys had shrivelled away to the proportions of a high note guitar string.
There wasn't much to laugh & cheer about early on, as we coughed up ball after ball & but the line defence held up well, despite a rare blemish by Burkles who let a soft one in on the half time bell.
The second half was supposed to be played conservately, according to Burkles half time recommendations, with the dummy half and roll-ball-dude to pass to each other for 5 touches and then shove the ball up your arse and run over to Adelaide Avenue and dodge the traffic.
Fark that of course, as we continued to Fiji it and fortunately the balls were caught, despite some loose passes with the soap like ball.
There was one hilarious moment when the opposition asked the touch count & some sneaky Seccers rat aka the Soulman, told them it was the 5th, only for it to back fire as Grimspoon demanded the ball next touch with everyone thinking his brain exploded. "Except the 'black' guy who tried to give me the ball" said the white Spoon.
We could have scored many more touchdowns but the last pass was either wildly sprayed onto Adelaide Ave (Big Pete, I said I wouldn't say anything... until the blog) or dropped on the wing over the line.
However, the best was saved to last, with a siren sounding try spectacular from Willy who threw a cut out to Billy the Kid on the wing. As the ball looked headed to the dirt yet again, Billy scooped the ball mm's from the ground and slid across the line in a triple-double movement, to bring joy to all involved.
AND REMEMBER (Esp Billy Haydos) WE HAVE THE BYE NEXT WEEK DUE TO STATE OF ORIGIN
[story updated]
With most of the so called stars missing from action & 2 legends of the game missing limbs & hamstrings & unable to run on to the ball, let alone catch it, the seccers were on a hiding to nothing.
Of course you knew i was talking about Xman (whose x factor is dropping the ball in all imaginable ways) & Rupert, both whose hammys had shrivelled away to the proportions of a high note guitar string.
There wasn't much to laugh & cheer about early on, as we coughed up ball after ball & but the line defence held up well, despite a rare blemish by Burkles who let a soft one in on the half time bell.
The second half was supposed to be played conservately, according to Burkles half time recommendations, with the dummy half and roll-ball-dude to pass to each other for 5 touches and then shove the ball up your arse and run over to Adelaide Avenue and dodge the traffic.
Fark that of course, as we continued to Fiji it and fortunately the balls were caught, despite some loose passes with the soap like ball.
There was one hilarious moment when the opposition asked the touch count & some sneaky Seccers rat aka the Soulman, told them it was the 5th, only for it to back fire as Grimspoon demanded the ball next touch with everyone thinking his brain exploded. "Except the 'black' guy who tried to give me the ball" said the white Spoon.
We could have scored many more touchdowns but the last pass was either wildly sprayed onto Adelaide Ave (Big Pete, I said I wouldn't say anything... until the blog) or dropped on the wing over the line.
However, the best was saved to last, with a siren sounding try spectacular from Willy who threw a cut out to Billy the Kid on the wing. As the ball looked headed to the dirt yet again, Billy scooped the ball mm's from the ground and slid across the line in a triple-double movement, to bring joy to all involved.
AND REMEMBER (Esp Billy Haydos) WE HAVE THE BYE NEXT WEEK DUE TO STATE OF ORIGIN
Friday, May 14, 2010
Rupert the Bear shot
Round 5 Winter - Seccers 10 Analytic Allstars 2
Another penetrating attacking raid from deep inside our own half. Rupert switches inside, receives the ball and carves the opposition up the guts.
Only 20m's to go. Try time beckoning. Then...
Wham!!
The sound of gun shot.
Rupert's legs come out from under him and he hits the deck.
It's all over for him. Hammy torn to pieces by a sniper in the woods. The touchdown glory disappears in a split second.
But the carnage continued, both with injuries to our own so called 'hard men' and of course carnage to yet another opposition, who couldn't handle the razzle dazzle of the decoys, dummies, sidesteps, silky hands and decisive darts, as the boys racked up 10 of the best.
Rupert, recuperating (sulking?) on the sideline, described the night as "a carve up".
"We had old fellas hitting the deck everywhere. We had hammys go, pulled thigh muscles, a pesky ITB being nursed through, a bout of Tonsilitis threatening to bring the Train to a thundering halt and the Soulmann doing his best Woody impression with a sneaky dive touchdown. We had Cody stuck in 2nd gear when at least 3rd was needed, big Pete was too tall to stop the little fellas diving at his feet, Bourky holstering his adept dummy for most of the night and Bucky sitting back with the conductors wand running the show."
Burkie said after yet another off load (more than he's done all winter and the preceding Summer) "i'm a bit scared (or did he say scarred) of the pen. I can't handle another bad write up".
It was a cold night as well. Not so much the wind chill of last week but a frost had settled quite early in the first half. But Rupesy, Big Pete and JJ Bucks braved it out for an extra 2 beers after the game, while they watched Seagull play the serious stuff afterwards, while coincidentally Soulmann ref'd him and denied his team 4 or 5 touchdowns.
The 3 eventually wandered off into the frost, with JJ Buck suspiciously hiding some hard bottle shaped object sticking out of his pants as he used Big Pete and Rupes as cover.
Next week: Seccers (5/5) v HTW (0/5)
Following week: No game (S.O.Origin)
The ladder after R5
Another penetrating attacking raid from deep inside our own half. Rupert switches inside, receives the ball and carves the opposition up the guts.Only 20m's to go. Try time beckoning. Then...
Wham!!
The sound of gun shot.
Rupert's legs come out from under him and he hits the deck.
It's all over for him. Hammy torn to pieces by a sniper in the woods. The touchdown glory disappears in a split second.
But the carnage continued, both with injuries to our own so called 'hard men' and of course carnage to yet another opposition, who couldn't handle the razzle dazzle of the decoys, dummies, sidesteps, silky hands and decisive darts, as the boys racked up 10 of the best.
This lovely lass isn't really relevant to the story,
but she turned up when I Googled "Rupert the Bear shot"
Rupert, recuperating (sulking?) on the sideline, described the night as "a carve up".
"We had old fellas hitting the deck everywhere. We had hammys go, pulled thigh muscles, a pesky ITB being nursed through, a bout of Tonsilitis threatening to bring the Train to a thundering halt and the Soulmann doing his best Woody impression with a sneaky dive touchdown. We had Cody stuck in 2nd gear when at least 3rd was needed, big Pete was too tall to stop the little fellas diving at his feet, Bourky holstering his adept dummy for most of the night and Bucky sitting back with the conductors wand running the show."
Burkie said after yet another off load (more than he's done all winter and the preceding Summer) "i'm a bit scared (or did he say scarred) of the pen. I can't handle another bad write up".
It was a cold night as well. Not so much the wind chill of last week but a frost had settled quite early in the first half. But Rupesy, Big Pete and JJ Bucks braved it out for an extra 2 beers after the game, while they watched Seagull play the serious stuff afterwards, while coincidentally Soulmann ref'd him and denied his team 4 or 5 touchdowns.
The 3 eventually wandered off into the frost, with JJ Buck suspiciously hiding some hard bottle shaped object sticking out of his pants as he used Big Pete and Rupes as cover.
Next week: Seccers (5/5) v HTW (0/5)
Following week: No game (S.O.Origin)
The ladder after R5
| POS | TEAM | P | W | L | D | B | BP | FF | For | Ag | Diff | PC | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seccers | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 9 | 42 | 566.67 | 15 | |
| 2 | Shooters TFC | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 21 | 16 | 176.19 | 14 | |
| 3 | Server Rack Australia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 12 | 32 | 366.67 | 13 | |
| 4 | Tiger Electrics | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 24 | 15 | 162.50 | 12 | |
| 5 | Analytic Allstars | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 22 | 12 | 154.55 | 10 | |
| 6 | Cruciates | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 26 | 2 | 107.69 | 9 | |
| 7 | Invision Saints | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 38 | -6 | 84.21 | 9 | |
| 8 | Ninja Cats TFC | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 46 | -29 | 36.96 | 7 | |
| 9 | HTW | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 55 | -42 | 23.64 | 5 | |
| 10 | Hammer Time | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 51 | -42 | 17.65 | 5 |
Friday, May 7, 2010
Nightmare on Seccers Street
Round 4 Winter - Seccers 7 Cruciates 4
I had a nightmare recently, and it involved playing a mad game of Touch with an afro wig on, while being refereed by 2 of the world's worst ever referees, Greg 'Hollywood' Hartley and "Barry "the Grasshopper" Gomersall. After being pounding with penalties all game, I was deadset going to score out wide on the wing, with a 2 on 1 advantage, but my inside man Ian 'the Chook' Herron dummied the ball again, got caught and blew the scoring opportunity.
Does this sound familiar to you??
Fark yeah.
Fair dinkum, this was no dream. This happened last Wednesday night, cept for the names.
The little 4ft ref who so reminded me of Hollywood Hartley had an absolute shocker and blew his little whistle like he was sucking on some Oxford St Sausage. Half the time we were left shaking our heads with some of the penalties he pulled. Fair dinkum (again), he wasn't watching the ball, he was probably fixated on the back of your shorts. It seemed to affect the other ref, who did a fair job for us last week, but this time he was blowing penalties against us as if he didn't want to be overshadowed by the runt of the refereeing litter.
Examples:
You'd almost think we'd lost the game. Far from it, which just goes to show how crap they were.
So while I'm dishing it out. Please note last week's blog about the '1 dimensional play' of our resident world record holder Tim 'the Chook' Burkles. Did I say his conversion rate was good? Did that go to his head?? Possibly. He was probably 0 from 5 in the dummy-to-the-outside man and score himself stakes. Young fella, when you have a 2 on 1 on the wing, your winger is 10 metres away from the last defending who has absolutely no chance of making it. PASS the farkin ball!! If he's wearing deadlocks, DEFINITELY pass him the ball.
Let's go to some positives. Nah, I couldn't be bothered. I was just more interested in bagging out the referees and slagging off the former Mr Perfect.
Oh ok, nice performance by 'Skylab' Pete, with his 2 tries out wide and his modesty of "you blokes inside did all the work". If that were true he would have got 3 pies, if not for Burkles thinking Skylab was still in orbit and passed so high, that half the team touch Pete before he could get the ball down from the clouds to the pie line.
Look, while I've got an easy target. Someone settle him down would yer. Burkles, that guy must have at least touched you 3 times. You can't keep sooking about it. Hollywood and the Grasshopper were never going to give you a break.
ps. Anyone heard from the boss-man Dougie? Last reports were that he was cavity searched by Danny De Vito in LAX airport for 2 hours. But De Vito never resurfaced...
Also, had anyone found the missing gold chain from the wee cute blond lass before the game started. Just quietly, the lucky finder of that chain would have a great opportunity to seek some nice reward... However, no one seemed interested in finding Will's lost front tooth. Bit Peter, when you hammer in his replacement, can you chose something different? perhaps from your Beaver range?
Looks like we have a more challenging game on hand next week against the Allstars, currently 4th. We missed 2 of our scoring machines Haydos and Seagull this week, so hopefully they'll be back on board for the Allstars.
Meanwhile, we're looking pretty on the ladder, even if our percentage halved.
I had a nightmare recently, and it involved playing a mad game of Touch with an afro wig on, while being refereed by 2 of the world's worst ever referees, Greg 'Hollywood' Hartley and "Barry "the Grasshopper" Gomersall. After being pounding with penalties all game, I was deadset going to score out wide on the wing, with a 2 on 1 advantage, but my inside man Ian 'the Chook' Herron dummied the ball again, got caught and blew the scoring opportunity.
Does this sound familiar to you??
Fark yeah.
Fair dinkum, this was no dream. This happened last Wednesday night, cept for the names.
The little 4ft ref who so reminded me of Hollywood Hartley had an absolute shocker and blew his little whistle like he was sucking on some Oxford St Sausage. Half the time we were left shaking our heads with some of the penalties he pulled. Fair dinkum (again), he wasn't watching the ball, he was probably fixated on the back of your shorts. It seemed to affect the other ref, who did a fair job for us last week, but this time he was blowing penalties against us as if he didn't want to be overshadowed by the runt of the refereeing litter.
Examples:
- The 2 Julseys touch some bloke in the first half near our line. We were very casual about it because, hey, he was touched and passes the ball after. Straight forward. Hand us the ball. But nooooooo, we didn't shout it out like Leyton Hewitt 'C'Monnnnn, I touched him". Try.
- Psycho, get's touched on the last, or penalty or something. He has to run back. Has his head down. "Give them the ball". He's still 10m away thinking he's doing the right thing. Bam. Penalty. 10m down the track.
- One of us makes a touch, runs back to his line. Touches again. Touchdown! Huh? "Oh I said you were offside". What the f---? Did you whisper that to yourself? Someone overhead him say "nice arrse". It's a bit like that army truck driver on anzac day, taking a photo from the rear, and no hands on the wheel. Crash!
You'd almost think we'd lost the game. Far from it, which just goes to show how crap they were.
So while I'm dishing it out. Please note last week's blog about the '1 dimensional play' of our resident world record holder Tim 'the Chook' Burkles. Did I say his conversion rate was good? Did that go to his head?? Possibly. He was probably 0 from 5 in the dummy-to-the-outside man and score himself stakes. Young fella, when you have a 2 on 1 on the wing, your winger is 10 metres away from the last defending who has absolutely no chance of making it. PASS the farkin ball!! If he's wearing deadlocks, DEFINITELY pass him the ball.
Let's go to some positives. Nah, I couldn't be bothered. I was just more interested in bagging out the referees and slagging off the former Mr Perfect.
Oh ok, nice performance by 'Skylab' Pete, with his 2 tries out wide and his modesty of "you blokes inside did all the work". If that were true he would have got 3 pies, if not for Burkles thinking Skylab was still in orbit and passed so high, that half the team touch Pete before he could get the ball down from the clouds to the pie line.
Look, while I've got an easy target. Someone settle him down would yer. Burkles, that guy must have at least touched you 3 times. You can't keep sooking about it. Hollywood and the Grasshopper were never going to give you a break.
ps. Anyone heard from the boss-man Dougie? Last reports were that he was cavity searched by Danny De Vito in LAX airport for 2 hours. But De Vito never resurfaced...
Also, had anyone found the missing gold chain from the wee cute blond lass before the game started. Just quietly, the lucky finder of that chain would have a great opportunity to seek some nice reward... However, no one seemed interested in finding Will's lost front tooth. Bit Peter, when you hammer in his replacement, can you chose something different? perhaps from your Beaver range?
Looks like we have a more challenging game on hand next week against the Allstars, currently 4th. We missed 2 of our scoring machines Haydos and Seagull this week, so hopefully they'll be back on board for the Allstars.
Meanwhile, we're looking pretty on the ladder, even if our percentage halved.
| POS | TEAM | P | W | L | D | B | BP | FF | For | Ag | Diff | PC | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seccers | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 7 | 34 | 585.71 | 12 | |
| 2 | Shooters TFC | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 17 | 12 | 170.59 | 11 | |
| 3 | Server Rack Australia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 9 | 30 | 433.33 | 10 | |
| 4 | Analytic Allstars | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 12 | 20 | 266.67 | 9 | |
| 5 | Tiger Electrics | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 19 | 5 | 126.32 | 9 | |
| 6 | Cruciates | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 21 | 4 | 119.05 | 8 | |
| 7 | Invision Saints | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 35 | -12 | 65.71 | 6 | |
| 8 | Ninja Cats TFC | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 31 | -19 | 38.71 | 6 | |
| 9 | Hammer Time | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 42 | -36 | 14.29 | 4 | |
| 10 | HTW | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 47 | -38 | 19.15 | 4 |
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Seccers a Jewish nose in front of the Saints
Round 3 Winter - Seccers 10 Invision Saints 2
Although the score belies another thumping and weak opposition, the game seemed a lot tougher than it seems.
The Saints were a constant threat with a few elusive fellows, although their main weapon of scooting or sweeping to the short side was rather one dimensional and shut down after a couple of early blemishes to our line.
Of course the mighty Seccers were anything but one dimensional, with touchdowns covering all facets of play. There were magic hands out wide. There was the dummy switching going on between Haydos and his mentor Rupes. There was the desisive dummy half sprints from inside his own half from the revitalised Seagull, which lead to half of the touchdowns to the every present and try sniffer Burkie. Burkie also sniffed out a few of his own, usually throwing his trademark dummy with 2 or 3 unmarked Seccers out wide. (note to Burkie - mate, as per the previous 1 dimensional comment, don't forget to mix it up and a few other TDs went begging - but can't knock your success rate).
Other highlights included:
And there was a few more unforced errors during the many line breaks made during the game. My analysis was that it's the guys with the rugger background, who hear the support player calling "short ball, short ball" and they pop a little pass, expecting another dopey forward to hit the ruck and maul. Stupid forwards!!!! You know who you are...
So that ends the wrap. We are still on top with a massive 1,000 better percentage than the 2nd team. I'm sure we'll run into some quality opposition soon. But as mentioned in the beginning, our opposition last night was good. But we were just outstandingly awesome. Maybe a harder challenge next week from Cruciates who are 2 from 3.
Although the score belies another thumping and weak opposition, the game seemed a lot tougher than it seems.
The Saints were a constant threat with a few elusive fellows, although their main weapon of scooting or sweeping to the short side was rather one dimensional and shut down after a couple of early blemishes to our line.
Of course the mighty Seccers were anything but one dimensional, with touchdowns covering all facets of play. There were magic hands out wide. There was the dummy switching going on between Haydos and his mentor Rupes. There was the desisive dummy half sprints from inside his own half from the revitalised Seagull, which lead to half of the touchdowns to the every present and try sniffer Burkie. Burkie also sniffed out a few of his own, usually throwing his trademark dummy with 2 or 3 unmarked Seccers out wide. (note to Burkie - mate, as per the previous 1 dimensional comment, don't forget to mix it up and a few other TDs went begging - but can't knock your success rate).
Other highlights included:
- The ridiculous sleeve-less, leg-less outfit displayed on the X-Man as he rocked up to the game. Mate it's fcuking winter now. You do not have to prove your manhood looking like some tri(hard)-athlete about to set off for a run around lake burley G on a summer's afternoon.
- Another magical X-Man moment when he was put in the clear, only for him to swan dive over the 5m line and be denied an easy meatie. To his credit he got up again (thanks to a subtle shepherd off the ball from yours truly) and he ran cross field for another minute trying to find another gap, but they had all closed up as soon as he got near them (does this reflect another aspect of your life Crossy...?)
- X-Man was involved again, remarking on the ocean like sweat output coming off Big Pete, who marked his first game for the season with some huffing and puffing. And most of that huffing came when he wasn't too impressed when X-man queried his Jewish nose. Tunksie, he meant there's a lot of "dew on your nose" - referring to the aforementioned sweating problem.
And there was a few more unforced errors during the many line breaks made during the game. My analysis was that it's the guys with the rugger background, who hear the support player calling "short ball, short ball" and they pop a little pass, expecting another dopey forward to hit the ruck and maul. Stupid forwards!!!! You know who you are...So that ends the wrap. We are still on top with a massive 1,000 better percentage than the 2nd team. I'm sure we'll run into some quality opposition soon. But as mentioned in the beginning, our opposition last night was good. But we were just outstandingly awesome. Maybe a harder challenge next week from Cruciates who are 2 from 3.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Seccers conspire to get a percentage
Round 2 Winter - Seccers 10 Ninja Cats 1
After the 14-0 thrashing we handed out last week, leaving us on top of the ladder, we were vulnerable without a percentage. This time Seccers meated out another hiding and allowed a solitary complimentary charitble intercept touchdown, purely intended at establishing a percentage (a whopping 2,400%). Anyway, that's the Soulmann's story, after popping a nice ball to some Ninja, and he's sticking to it.
Highlight of the game was the Will the Wombat's storming run for a solo touchdown, which had teammates talking comparisons with the great Graham Eadie. And it was razzle dazzle all round as Seccers provided the entertainment with 10 scintillating tries, which had sections of the local media questioning the salary cap of this star studded line-up.
One of those players, Cody de Seagulli, who joined the team in similar circumstances to Brett Finch, played his first game of the season, quashing rumours he'd fallen out with management. His appearance did however, come to the attention of the salary cap auditor, who is questioning the appearance of what seems additional hair implants.
Cody was immediately back to his best, with only one blemish when he put on a 'move' close to the line, but failed to give Soulmann the extra 10 seconds to reconnect the broken synapses of his rep playing days to remember what to do, with the resulting ball bouncing off his head (and having to endure a lecture at halftime from a Seagull pumped like he'd found a bucket of chips on a Bateman's Bay park bench).
We won't mention the rare unforced error from JJ Buck coming off his line in the middle of a Fiji hit-up. Or the 5 minute bad period early in the second half when holding the ball was about as popular as Tony Abbott in budgie smugglers.
So here's the very good looking ladder:
After the 14-0 thrashing we handed out last week, leaving us on top of the ladder, we were vulnerable without a percentage. This time Seccers meated out another hiding and allowed a solitary complimentary charitble intercept touchdown, purely intended at establishing a percentage (a whopping 2,400%). Anyway, that's the Soulmann's story, after popping a nice ball to some Ninja, and he's sticking to it.
Highlight of the game was the Will the Wombat's storming run for a solo touchdown, which had teammates talking comparisons with the great Graham Eadie. And it was razzle dazzle all round as Seccers provided the entertainment with 10 scintillating tries, which had sections of the local media questioning the salary cap of this star studded line-up.One of those players, Cody de Seagulli, who joined the team in similar circumstances to Brett Finch, played his first game of the season, quashing rumours he'd fallen out with management. His appearance did however, come to the attention of the salary cap auditor, who is questioning the appearance of what seems additional hair implants.
Cody was immediately back to his best, with only one blemish when he put on a 'move' close to the line, but failed to give Soulmann the extra 10 seconds to reconnect the broken synapses of his rep playing days to remember what to do, with the resulting ball bouncing off his head (and having to endure a lecture at halftime from a Seagull pumped like he'd found a bucket of chips on a Bateman's Bay park bench).We won't mention the rare unforced error from JJ Buck coming off his line in the middle of a Fiji hit-up. Or the 5 minute bad period early in the second half when holding the ball was about as popular as Tony Abbott in budgie smugglers.
So here's the very good looking ladder:
| POS | TEAM | P | W | L | D | B | BP | FF | For | Ag | Diff | PC | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seccers | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 23 | 2400.00 | 6 | |
| 2 | Cruciates | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 283.33 | 6 | |
| 3 | Shooters TFC | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 188.89 | 6 | |
| 4 | Server Rack Australia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 300.00 | 4 | |
| 5 | Analytic Allstars | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 200.00 | 4 | |
| 6 | Invision Saints | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 138.46 | 4 | |
| 7 | Ninja Cats TFC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17 | -13 | 23.53 | 2 | |
| 8 | HTW | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 22 | -17 | 22.73 | 2 | |
| 9 | Hammer Time | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26 | -25 | 3.85 | 2 | |
| 10 | Tiger Electrics | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 13 | -9 | 30.77 | 0 |
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