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
What about the defence from the boys for the first rounds. We are 2 touchdowns better in defence per game than the rest. Awesome.
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