3 3 vs ?

dc (2 mom), tw (1), cb, ring-ins adrian (gk), phillipe

Who knows where all the nannas went ? Reigning champions one week, mild mannered dinner party guests the next, some nancy birthday party according to reports. Well at least Takeshi and Thomas had a valid (in fact the only valid) excuse being they weren’t in Melbourne (you hear that, you bunch of light lager drinking nancy boys !).

Anyways, we were fortunate enough to have a couple of ring-ins bolster the team. Ade stepped masterfully into goals and Phillipe lent some Gaulish flair to a tight five returning once again to the sacred pits. The 6.40 is a hard grasp (I’m still waiting for a fine after pulling a u-turn over the median strip on Kings Way !) and we kicked off with only 4 nannas on the pitch, luckily so too did the opposition. I always find it kind of weird when a game starts not quite right, like you really don’t have to run or something, which made it even weirder when the nannas took the lead through a toe poked effort from yours truly. I can’t really remember the sequence of events after that but Tao arrived as did his opposite number and then we ran a lot. Ade put in a couple of great saves and Phillipe had some nice ‘foot rolling on top of the ball’ styles. The Nannas never really found the fluidity of last week (which is to be expected) though late on Cassis made a very nice run through the centre of the pitch, drew the goalie and then offloaded for the striker to tap in. The tie ended in a draw which was kind of ok.
yeah, something like that.

then it was on to the ‘not looking so bad these days’ chief for beers and pottles of tartare where lots of bubbles were blown in glasses of lemonade and the big kids were ‘chas’tised for leading Solly astray on the absolutely filthy window ledge – Shubut !