Righto so this week we played a revived Whippet Good team, reports suggest they had around 14 players; old, new and female.
On the bugger side of the coin however we were missing a fair bit of our top end leadership with Jason, Matt and Mike out for the night. Consequently our next group of leaders and the whole team as individuals had to take responsibility for themselves and for the team.
It sounds like things went well.
Here it is from the boys who were there:
James Larkin (Stand in captain)
You missed a fantastic game! We came out firing, doing what we do best. Intensity on defense. This got us a lot of turn overs which the score reflected at half, 8:2. Second half we came out a little slow and not with the intensity we had in the first half. We made some silly errors, got a little lazy and started to let them get back into the game (10:6 i believe). We took a time out, sorted ourselves out and got back to business finishing off 14:7 (or around there).
What won us the game was our defense. When we got a turn over, we stayed calm, simple cuts, easy passes and scored the point. Our stack was a lot better than last week! Much cleaner, but still could be better and will improve throughout the league.
I'm definately liking this team.
Scott Massey's top 5 Highlights:
1. There was one D point I saw from the sideline that looked like it came straight out of one of Mike's emails. Thrower looks up field for the short throw, nothing on. Winds up for the huck but theres a hand in the way. Tries to dump back but the dump's covered. Swilly high release on 9
to noone in particular gets D'd by the nearest Bugger.
2. Nandor's one-handed backwards half-pike reverse somersault grab to pull in a floaty hammer
3. That patient upwind zone O.
4. Big intensity
5. Some extremely solid leadership from James rounds it out.
I'm proud of our effort and enthusiasm boys, congratulations to all who played their best and help to lead our team constructively.
Mike
