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:
- 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.