A forgotten t-shirt proves costly as Seccers blow the minor premiership

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...