An interesting Changing Room with lots of youngish(?) looking, eager and paracetomol fuelled Vets watching the zitty, fresh faced youngsters + a few ‘sell-by-date’ wrinklies, warm up for ages before the game and explaining to JB (who would Ref the game) what The Rules were – Harry kept well out of that conversation, he doesn’t let The Rules get in the way when he’s Reffing games. 14 aside, though with Turbo, Adam & Jaco as The Vets front row there was a definite weight advantage, not always successfully used but men against boys, as they say and credit to 3rds for fronting up all afternoon. ParaAdie was in his element, charging round, shouting, being all butch and manly, whilst Commode Don was in-and-out like a well soiled fighting man should be, popping the ball out to the Threes – when it wasn’t squirting out at all angles with Finny’s fingerprints all over it. Harry (he’s recently thrown his hat in for the England job … but predictably missed) decided The Ref didn’t need any help so concentrated on passing the ball to DamoS to take the hits then picking up the pieces afterwards. Several young 3rd‘s decided to target the little lad on the wing –BIG mistake!! -they got Damoed good and proper, whilst Coley –v-JohnnyW at the lineouts kept things messy but the honours even. There did seem to be a non-stop ruck going on through the entire game, pausing only for regular scrums but as JB is a flanker [*spell-check that word], he doesn’t understand what ‘offside at the breakdown’ means, allowing pile ups to be a free-for-all, with Davewww.rugbyexpert.comIvermy telling everyone how we should be doing it, whereas Finny was sneaking in and showing how to do it. ParaAdie found this very frustrating and charged off - in the wrong direction - mumbling. At last, class told and Keiran jogged through a broken defence line to score, followed shortly after by Semi.I.E.Damo, though noticing the quivering bottom lips on the studenty 3rd team Threes weakened the Vets’ hearts and they deliberately left a few gaps to let them score a couple of charitable tries Half Time Mods Saliva Foxes 24 -v- 12 Mods Prepubescents’ Second half more of the same, WorldCupNick proving he still has pace (enjoy it while you can Mate) to outrun Tom and score, DamoH managed to get his fat little legs into overdrive and zipped through for a second. His namesake DamoS got cramp in his calves, though he felt better after a full body massage from George (don’t tell Ed!)
Nige Davis showed off his new, French kitten-heel implants were bursting with speed and energy, made him look taller and actually enabled him to hobble round several players and the linesman … and the corner flag to score in the corner – try given (it’s not easy to see the line from the centre spot according to JB).
Still an endless series of scrums and rucks; TheScrim getting penalised for imitating an Italian Cruise ship by lying on the wrong side – JB singled him out with a shoe-ing on the back and “get out of there Scrim” before remembering to blow his whistle – is this a new refereeing procedure to be used in the 6 Nations?
At last, the highlight of the afternoon, Ady The Unco-ordinator made his camay role – he was late arriving having been to Keyworth ‘cos he hadn’t sent himself an Email about the Home game, but with his first touch he nipped smartly into touch then had a mardy when a lineout was given rather than a try – that’ll put the cost of the ‘Awayday’ up by 50%!! The 3rd’s played to the end, accepting the offered gaps to run in a couple more scores (aren’t The Vets generous?) - Bloodgate nicked an intercept to show his toy-boy team mates how to do it. A really enjoyable game, great spirit, great fun and the right result…..
Now …. Where are the 2ndXV hiding? purrr purrr meouwww x Men of the Match; DamoS & DamoH – Heart and Soul of the Team
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