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