Menner N Men 5 - CombatWombats 2
The futsal season kicked off last night, and the mighty Combat Wombats were in action at North Sydney. I arrive first, shortly followed by another three members who promptly vetoed a pre-match drink, and I was forced to head towards the field in a complete state of sobriety.
After a quick kick-around, the lagging two members of the team showed up - in work gear. With only five minutes to go until kick-off, they headed off to get changed, and then disaster struck! Duncan, our star midfielder, sustained what could be a crippling injury to the foot.
Luckily for us, Dunc managed to walk it off, and we headed on to the field where the other team and referee were assembled ready for the start. Unfortunately, out two late arrivals had decided they needed to apply mascara before the game, and so the start was delayed, which, combined with my aforementioned sobriety, made the team a little nervous before kickoff.
And a nervous start it was - we conceded four goals in the first half, and could only reply with an inspired MJ Dean shot, 1 yard from the goal. The keeper had no chance. Going into the break 4-1 down, we resolved to keep possession in the second half and try to peg back some goals.
It was a different team that took the field in the second half, as, calm and composed, we took control of the game. Shot after shot went nowhere near the goal, but still we persisted. Chuck caught the referee’s attention with a nasty slide tackle, but no card was presented. Finally our persistence paid off with another MJ Dean special, this time from at least 1.2 yards out.
Alas, it wasn’t to be, and to add insult to injury Menner N Men slotted home a final goal from the sideline, despite a valiant effort by yours truly yelling at all and sundry.
It wasn’t all bad news though - the two other games ended up 5-0 and 10-1, putting us in fourth position on the table, thus poised in semi-final contention. I was nominated “Man of the Match” with 4 votes, ahead of Mike (on 1.5) and Chuck (on 0.5), while Mike goes to the top of the Golden Boot competition. Keep up to date on all the stats at the CombatWombats page.
Next week sees Combat Wombats take on our avowed arch-rivals the Mullets, at 9pm Monday night, ANZAC Stadium, Nth Sydney. Be there.
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September 18, 2007 7:11 pm
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By Joel
, September 18, 2007 @ 10:40 pm
no trackbacks?
By stu
, September 19, 2007 @ 7:57 am
I don’t think you can trackback/comment on a page (as opposd to a post)… correct me if I’m wrong?
By Joel
, September 19, 2007 @ 9:46 am
No - I trackbacked on this post… it didn’t work though :\
By stu
, September 19, 2007 @ 9:57 am
You didn’t link to this post - did you send a manual trackback? I don’t think I allow them - would get too much spam.
By stu
, September 19, 2007 @ 10:42 am
There you go.
By Chuck
, September 19, 2007 @ 11:49 am
Hey, how do you post up a match report?
By sarah
, September 19, 2007 @ 2:08 pm
Dear Joel and stu, don’t you think it would be far more efficient to call and discuss? Rather then play blog tennis? … just a thought
By stu
, September 19, 2007 @ 2:14 pm
Dear Sarah, don’t you think it would be far more efficient to call us to make this suggestion?
Chuck (and anyone else), send match reports to me and I’ll put them up, until such time as I organise somewhere you can do it automomatically.
By foster the imposter
, September 20, 2007 @ 10:14 am
pure pure gold stu
you are the consummate smartarse
By sarah
, September 27, 2007 @ 7:58 pm
Dear stu,
You will be going hungry tonight.
xxx
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By wombat
, September 30, 2007 @ 8:05 am
That’s okay, they don’t call him “the white somalian” for nothing