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 |
Absolute Literary genius.
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