Breaking News! Our first game and our first win! Will the season continue on such a high? Only time will tell…

The evening got off to a relatively slow start with team members trickling in one by one leaving us wondering if we’d have any subs.  In the end, our numbers reached nine (that’s 2 spares for those of you who don’t know the rules), so I was quite happy to start on the sideline.

Lidi-Ann showed up at the last minute, a little worried as she hadn’t played before and that it all sounded a little “serious”. Serious I asked? Then I guess you haven’t seen us play…  Serious is not a word that could be used to describe the Kamikaze Squad. At least not unless you’re using it with a few other words. Like seriously uncoordinated. Seriously hysterical… Well, you get the picture…

We tried (unsuccessfully) to convince her to play. Her excuse? She was wearing a skirt and dress boots so wasn’t “equipped”. We suggested she play naked. It could be our strategy I said – the opposition would be too scared to touch her. Well, maybe not all of them…  some of those guys would probably be quite keen on catching her! In the end, she opted to be our second cheerleader  – although neither Sarah or Lidi-Ann brought pom-poms, and I didn’t hear any fancy cheers on the sideline. Lots of laughter, but no cheering…

The game kicked off, with plenty of touches and our first try by our newest recruit, Vicki.  Her secret?  Well, remember she was a constable for the Queensland police force so she has had plenty of practice chasing suspects.

Some fantastic moves and our second try by our wonder boy Martin, who was already a little tired due to helping blow up over 300 balloons for Tracey’s farewell (that’s another story), and playing the early game for the ADP team (who helped us last season by providing a few ring-in players when we were short).

Our third and final try by yours truly. An amazing breakaway you ask? Kind of… The other team just sort of stopped and let me through, but I have no shame and will happily take the credit for it!

We did start wondering if it was ever going to end. The problem with the late games, is Stew (who organizes it all), is usually too busy chatting and drinking and forgets the time. Eventually he blew the hooter and we went and enjoyed a nice cold well deserved beer and headed home.
Rock on next week!
Gretchen

PS. The team we were meant to play pulled out at the last minute so we won by default. We played another team Shut The Gate who had already played the early game. You couldn’t tell. They were faster, fitter, and if the score did count it wouldn’t have quite gone our way with 3 tries to the Kamikaze Squad, and a few more to the other team. But who was counting?