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Another beautiful day at the park, which begs the question. how fast are the
polar caps melting and can we live with that if it is 85 degrees in
November. I asked the resident PhDs but they starting rambling on and I
lost my concentration..Anyway.
If anyone showed up early they got to see the New Haven affiliated
Quinnipiac Boys beat up on Mass Maritime. I didn't really see it because I
was busy writing up the rules to our jersey raffle, which were promptly
ignored. Cheers boys.
Game Time.the crowd was pumped and raucous and so were the boys in black.
So pumped that the Hounds had no idea what hit them. Literally 6 minutes
into the game the home town boys led 14-0. I was so stunned I have no idea
who scored (these are the kinds of reports you will get when I play), I do
remember one was scored by PHD #2 aka Lance Armstrong in the corner off a
beautiful pass from someone (I gotta lay off the Coors). More importantly
about 5 minutes after that Calf Cramp took a beautiful short pass from
Quadzilla and actually ran by the opposing 12 for a try. The try culminated
the slowest run and chase in DI history..good times.
Unfortunately the hounds decided they actually wanted to play and once they
made it inside the 22 they retained the ball for what seemed like an hour
and a half and finally put one in the corner. Score 19-6. Two back and
forth tries scored in almost identical fashion, with the New Haven club
scoring off open play and displaying great support and the Wolfhounds
grinding out mauling tries deep in our half, saw the score 26-12 at the
half.
In the halftime huddle you could feel the intensity from the boys..I know
this because I was twenty meters away getting re-taped and yes I am making
this up. However they must have been intense because the Hounds came to play
in the second half and all the Old Blacks did was stuff them back into their
own half and bottle up almost all of their play makers. The 8 man picks
netted about 1 yard all day and we never saw an inside back move more than a
couple meters off the gain line. With about 20 minutes left Ewan 4 and a
half fingers slid through the opposing back line for a beautiful try. Less
than ten minutes later Tui scooped up and errant pass from the Hound fly
half and burst 20 meters in for his second try of the game..one of his tries
must have been from the earlier time period that is still a blur. The rout
was on and what I can only imagine was one of the largest defeats that the 2
time National Champs have felt in a while. We are sure to meet these guys
in the playoffs down the road and remember that revenge is a dish best
served cold. But for the day the beer was a lot colder for the boys south
of the bad Fall River accents.
Final Score 40-12
B side
Apart from trying organizing what we had as much as possible the side was so
disheveled in places Sao at FB - Pat in center - it was hard to take in
exactly what was going in especially as we were turning them over rather
nicely
Well apart from the B side forwards taking it to the Wolfhounds - Bossman
and John having their own little world now which consists of scrummaging the
socks off teams and seeing how high they can launch Andy in the line outs
The backs were devastating in as much as Benny and Jay reminded me of some
sort of sinister funeral directors who ought be known as Chuckem and
Catchit - with the Catchit part of the duo - with deceptive slowness and a
unsubtle method of hand offs scoring a rather memorable and deserved
hat-trick of tries.
The Justified and Ancient One (Louie) to whom we are grateful for yet
another short notice appearance for us - now seems to find himself addicted
to line out jumping and finds himself like a low flying missile winning line
out ball way underneath most sides radar.
Pat found out that its not all glamour and scoring under the posts
constantly having to ask Catchit if we could stop calling miss moves and let
him have a pass once in a while - to which Catchit responded with
"next
ball.........miss two"
Bob Huscher celebrating his birthday left the pitch much to the disgust of
his comrades which showed on the day he held the side up as they scored
twice after he left shame on him. Longo showed that any conversion Polish
Andy could miss he could miss just as well. On a serious note - Bossman and
John are becoming a formidable scrummage and line out pairing - its going
well for them - Polish Andy and Sao are much improved and are unlucky right
now not to be seeing more A team work
Man of the Match
A - Ewen Robinson
B - Brian ??
Key Terms
Kate Medico= Jacko Ahoy
Calf Cramp= Jason Smith
Sun block/Crazy= Dave Fischer
PHD #1= Ryan
PHD #2/ Lance Armstrong= Jake
Buddy Lee= Buddy Lee
Quadzilla= Victor Milani
Other to follow as needed...
Editor's Note - Facts may be correct, incorrect and / or blatantly false, ok
never blatantly false but these are the facts as seen through the eyes of
the writer. Scores are always correct. If you have complaints call my mom
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