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:

• 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)

  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??"

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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:

• 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

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

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