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match report – 080626

match report

9-2 vs X X X X
TH, JH(2), TW(1), RH(2), TK, AW, CG(GK,1), DC(MOM,3)

One word – Commitment. That’s how to win the respect and admiration of your brother nannas. By showing commitment on the ball, on the field, in the pub, in the beach-box, in the face of desiccated mushrooms and forkfuls of crunchy powder… But most importantly by showing up to play having witnessed the birth of your daughter and leaving hospital less than 48 hours previously. that is Commitment with a capital C. To be honest it wasn’t planned, I was totally reconciled to, and comfortable with, the fact that I wouldn’t be playing, but then it was 7.10 the punks were in bed, the little miss was snuggled up with Miri, the dishes were done, the bench and table wiped. Really, what was I going to do ? Go into the stude and do some art labouring? Hell no, I was going to join with my brown brethren in a classic Nannas landslide! So good. So good in fact that Nannas barely noticed the three subs. So good in fact that the Nannas were laughing. Laughing after successful flowing moves, even laughing after crap passes. There were goals aplenty and the author even managed to score a goal for each of his progeny. Ah yes, all was good in the world. So good that the Nannas even forgot to give all their votes to Tao…

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match report 080306 – we was freakin’ robbed – arse raped by a melways ref – Big Jims Stupaknee™

match report

5-6 vs S & P
CG[gk] DC[2,MOM] JH[1] AW[1] TW[1] TH

what an arse.
things were looking good, the nannas started brightly with a tight defense and some good early runs. The opposition had some moves but nothing overly threatening. Andy Wong opened the scoring with a speculative shot not far from the halfway line. Almost reminiscent of the shot from Cesc that put Arsenal into the lead on Tuesday night. There was some fantastic hustling from the nannas particularly Tom, Tao and Wal, pressing and suffocating space. Against the run of play the opp nicked one back, they did have some ball skills after all. But more committed hustling tight in the left corner from the le coq spotif resulted in a dispossession and another goal. half time and the scores are tied 2-2. Then the nannas really lifted their mental game and pulled two goals clear, a father flukey left from Le Coq and one off the knee ?! from big Jim Hannan, the Stupaknee™ if you will. it was at about this point that M3 ( that’s right people a ref called M3, the very ref who this author was restrained from laying an official complaint against) began his typical slide into farcical decision making. A penalty was awarded for some clumsy bundling in D by Jim. The sweaty portly stubbley angry man steps up to take it and of course giller, using the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, saves the goal with his feet, ah yes feel the pain you sweaty portly stubbley angry man !! ha ! but no ! the ref is claiming he hadn’t blown the whistle, you’ve got to be f**king serious. from there it’s downhill , the nannas have been dealt a serious injustice from which their fragile psyches can not recover. the opp run in another gaol almost straight away the nannas just standing around in disgust. that is freakin’ bullshit ref ! still stuck in the past moment the nannas see another and then a another in the back of their net. Tao rallies to pull one back back but it’s too late. Anally defiled by a melways ref. the ignominy. fvckit.

epilogue:
to further compound the lack of courtly behavior three nannas left the table at the chief before the other three had even finished eating, what is that all about ?
well, at least the gunners are through to the quarter finals of the Champions League…
oh, and there was some contention about the MOM voting, but given that the coach hadn’t posted his report on the site… (some cods wallop about server hacking)
anyway, Andy will probably be writing a report as well so the more the merrier.
it should also be mentioned that the glorious captain of nannas has been taken ill, we all wish him a speedy return to health & brown manly vitality
congratulations also to Pete & Nat on the birth of their little boy Cohen (sp?) – woohoo !

Match Report 080124

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vs Bulls lost 11-8

CB 2, DC 3, TW 2, JH 1, AW, RH, TK, TH (Coach)

MOM CB, DC

A loss, details of which I can’t really remember. So instead I’m going to tell a touching story of nanna brotherhood.

One night, a few weeks ago, Chas asked if I could help him load an oven he had recently bought on ebay into the back of his camry. The thought did occur to me that it would have to be a fairly tight fit but anyway, the oven was in Port Melbourne and he picked me up at about 8. I was about to walk out the door all free and easy but miri insisted I take the holy trinity of wallet, phone & keys. ok ok. So we’re in the car heading down punt road listening – as most readers would know, chassies movie always has a soundtrack – to a shuffling pod (that being claire’s iPod, the one with chas’s name engraved on the back) and I’m thinking – again – how it’s great to hear kool keith find his way to the top of the random shuffle pile… to be continued

have to leave now for the game, taking an extra set of undies as the pork dumplings i enjoyed earlier today with bozza have consequently induced vomiting and loose bowel movements… joy.

back again, god that was hideous. So anyway, we’re now driving through the city, and I’m vaguely aware that this is a rather indirect route to Port Melbourne. As we pull up at the lights on the corner of William and Collins, Chas looks over and thinks he sees someone who ‘could almost be Thomas’. I’m squinting (yes, i probably should wearing some kind of spectacle) and can just make out a figure at the tram stop who, though unrecognisable at this distance, is sort of leaning on the tram stop in a manner reminiscent of the coach. We hang a right and siddle past. Sure enough it is the coach who jogs down to meet us. Turns out Tom is heading to Elwood to meet George. Of course my first thought is let’s give Thermas a lift but knowing Chas’ general reluctance to deviate too far from his intended path I say nothing but that’s ok ‘cos Tom is doing all the suggesting. Chas is proving hard to convince but finally relents and Tom jumps in. Keen to hear more of Chas’s new ebay purchase I enquire as to the style of the oven, 6 burner , full fuckin’ hosting model, nice, and what brand ? Brand ? No one cares about the brand ! really ? Come on Chas, don’t you want some smeg in your kitchen ? no, no smeg. then what the hell is it, like promax or some dodgy… no no… who cares about brands cocky , jesus … well, ok then.

Half way down Kings Way Tom gets a call. George is now at the Espy, so we can drop him there which isn’t quite as far, is it. Apparently George is going on date and has asked Tom to come along to bolster his cool friend count or provide moral support or some such. Chas is speculating about some kind of bergerac role for Tom, then was some lewid talk involving whispered instructions which I shall not repeat. Though getting late, the sun is still high and St Kilda is doing a fairly passable impression of a groovy urban seaside hangout zone. Pulling up outisde the Espy I start working my charms on Chas, ‘c’mon… just one pot, chassis, c’mon…’. Unbeleivabley my powers of persuassion prove to much for chas and we park in the rock star park. Analysis of the parking meter reveals a cost of $2 an hour or $6 all day, Chas is looking confused and I see why, he has just put $5 in the machine, I mean how long does it take to drink a pot for crisake ? yeha yeah, what was I thinking…

Ok so thi sis where things start to get weird. we walk up the Espy and theres a bouncer at the street level. Tom walks through but the bouncer is unimpressed when we try to follow. “are you here for the gig ?”, err, no we’re just following our friend. Tom is at the top of steps beckoning. So I guess George must be going to this gig, finally we get through and then Tom starts pointing at the gig poster, wild gesticulating, WTF, Dr Octogan !!! ah man, how much would i love to see kool keith, but the oven… there’s no way chas is going to forget that, but he’s walking up to the door.. well ok let’s go and at least look in the door… Now tom has payed and what is this, chas is getting out his wallet, it’s 35 bucks, ther’s no way chas is going to payt $35 for one pot! The Tom says to teh door bitch “surely cocky has his name on the door” ? so she sort of does this cursory flip through and says yeah ?! nice one Tom, I can go halvies with Chas in this cunningly wangled ticket, which makes the post on;ly abou $20 each… but we still won’t see Keith… man this is weird but hey just keep rolling with it. We head to teh bar, I order 3 pots only to realise I don’t have any cash (hell I almost had no wallet), so Tom steps up and orders another 3 by accicdent, so we now have two pots each, madness. We take a seat, I’m kind of spinning out but Tom and Chas seem completely cool with it all, so I just take a sip of my coopers pale ale… and where’s George and his date ?

A couple of swigs later and in strolls Jim ? apparently Elo is having a birthday party of sorts at the espy and so of course it’s no surprise when Rhian walks in. Hell this could almost be a nannas function, ah the automomously self forming good times… if only we didn’t have to get this damn oven. To top it off Rhian says he saw Takeshi outside, of course, Kondo is always at the Espy, and given that Kool Kieth is playing it’s almost logical to have expected he would be here. If only I’d brought some of russian gymnastic training equipment. and what about the oven. “what time do we have to get this oven by chassie ?” “the guy said we had to be there by 10” “sweet…”. At Rhian’s suggestion we move into the pool (strong suggestioning from the captian as usual) where several rounds a winning pool ensue, accompanied by unending jugs. Still no sign of either George or Elo, but no one seems too fussed and then Lou walks in, so of course I have to relay the series of fortuitous coincidences that he has now become a part of. It may be a school night but I’m starting to get pretty largered (or pale aled) by this point.

to be continued… I have to go to the opening of Game On.

match report 071220

match report

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 !

Nannas Match Report 071115

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5-3 vs Los pitufos
DC (2,MoM), CB (1), CG (gk,1), AW, TW, JH(1)

With upper management on international duty middle management were forced to convene a special emergency meeting and disciplinary action has been threatened against Andrew Wong and Takeshi Kondo but more on that later.

Following a delayed kickoff the Nannas launched an aggressively tight 5 into the fray. Some tidy passing and neat finishing soon saw the lead taken. Giller then threw in a goal (is this a first ?) much to the embarrassment of the opposing goalie who went home to read the rule book… It all went to hell in bucket carter later in the second half with the opposition pulling one back. The Taoer of Paoer arrived and was soon in the thick of things (ie. yelling at Chas). The start of the second half was equally uninspired but the second half of the second half saw a return to form, Chas running onto a perfectly timed pass from Le Coq Sportif and slotting home (which was good considering he muffed a couple of sitters earlier on), Jim sliced one in from an impossible angle – literally standing on the back line. CG making the usual ridiculous saves and some unusually short (and effective) passes out. Some great defense from Jim and Wal. more wierd ankle electricity for the author and the last goal of the night. All good.

NOT so good. the blatant disregard of the flurry by Andy and Takeshi which resulted in a lot of panicked ringing around by middle management trying to locate said nannas and then trying to find subs at the last minute followed by the even more embarrassing task of telling those who had valiantly offered to play at extremely short notice (and got all excited) that in fact they weren’t required. NOT good. Disciplinary action is still to be decided.

HENCEFORTH: All Nannas MUST make their availability known at least ONE DAY BEFORE the game. If you don’t “have a fvcking office job like you cocky” or are otherwise too dim witted to use email and contribute to the Flurry™ then you must CALL somebody or use fvcking smoke signals if you have to.

ps. Rhian, Tom and Wal all still owe match reports, I seem to recall something about defecating in a nannas throat ?

Nannas Match Report 071101a

match report, MOM votes, stats

Nannas A Vs The Golden Nannas | 7-6 ?
CB, DC, RH, TH, TW, TK, AW, CG (goals to be confirmed)
MOM DC/RH/TW

After much unresolved discussion regarding the substitution policy of a “loose 8” the Nannas were left high and dry by whoever the fvck they were meant to be playing. No matter, the Nannas would fight it out amongst themselves. in The Brown corner under Captain Kondo (Woohoo! very great to have Takeshi back in the nanna fold) were DC, RG & AW, in the golden corner guided by Captain Gill were CB,TW & TH. Four aside means one thing, running. Nannas A started brightly and were looking good but The Golden Nannas started slicing us up and were soon well in front. In the second half the tables turned and Nannas A pulled it back ( a notable Hleb-esque strike from RH). It was neck and neck (though the golden nannas were in reciept of an own goal) when TW was heard to yelp before crumpling to the ground. Down to 3 men the Golden Nannas put up a valiant fight (whilst Nannas A seemed to go into slow mo) but it wasn’t enough, AW sliding home the nutmeg* winner in the dying minute…

but back to the subbing, dual goalie controversy. Le Coq Numerique has gone part way to solving the problem.

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…but wait there’s more. At the pub after the game The Nannas were treated to a sneak preview of the wonders of the CHDK firmware hack . Which is of special interest to the G7 owners in the crowd. Kudos to Guy “reach around” Fraser for wording up the author…

* possibly inaccurate

match report 071025 part c

match report

vs The Annual (Wesley) 9-5
dc(4), cb(2), tw(2), jh, aw, rh(gk), owngoal(1)
MOM cb/rh/dc

“continues to sh1t in the mouths of his compatriots…”

So this is what I read as I sit in my little cubicle on a Thursday morning tirelessly working towards a greater future for all G7 owning nannas. This is the thanks I receive for my efforts to realise the true power of a camera crippled by it’s manufacturer to maintain market separation. Well I say to you Thomas “I hope you firmware is unsupported”. No Raw capture for you my brother G7 owning nanna, no in built intervlometer for you, no RGB histograms for you, no undecipherable stereo data information for you ! that is what I say…

But I digress. back to the far more pressing task of ceaseless self promotion, especially given these unstable and soon to unstabled times. I’m still not entirely sure that this qualifies (as far as I can tell I look like a total penis) but if you’ve got a spare 170 Mb of download lying around you can check for yourself sunday arts 14.10.2007. I’ll do it myself at some point and post only the incriminating section for those who can’t be arsed.

but back to the game. 7-0 ! sweet hey-zues ! The mighty Arsenal in Imperious form . Now this may seem like yet another digression but let me continue. If you take a close look at the sixth goal by boy wonder Theo Walcott two things come to mind. 1st (as stated by more or less every commentator) is that it bears an uncanny resemblance to the trade mark styles of Thierry Henry. 2nd is that the Nannas or perhaps more keenly The Annuals goalkeeper bore witness to two very similar strikes in the far more humble setting of the wesley indoor court. The Best looking Nanna, aka The Purple Headed Father of Two slotted in two almost identical shots. Running left and drawing the gaolie wide before pushing the ball across the face of goal with the deftest of touches off the outside of the boot. There was more magic. There were also other self similar goals. Chassy was in a speculative mood and passed a couple of long cross court balls coming in at just below hip hieght. While the Author managed to pull them out of the air with a fair to average degree of skill, the opposition were so sh1t that they allowed enough time for everyone to watch the ball bounce and “cock wallaby” belt the crap out of it on the half volley (very satisfying I might add). For his continual running and vigilince (and forgetting the occasional late pass) the slim hipped chassis was rewarded with a brace. Jim still continues to support Man U and thus didin’t score any goals. Andy Wong put in a late arrival (though his excuse was later deemed worthy) but was timing his runs to far post impeccably. On several occasions Wal was in exactly the right place at the right time but the pass never arrived (see above). And Finally the captain, selflessly stepping up to defend the sacred nanna portal. Some great saves (a couple of early naff through the legs too but who hasn’t done that 176 times themselves) coupled with some top shelf distribution…

ah well. very good nannas, sorry about the fecal oral…

match report 070621

match report, team photo

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1-3 vs Thursday Knights – Albert Park Pits
DC(mom), RH(1), AW, CG, JH

Yep, another stinkin’ loss! but not without merit.

The Nannas have been hammered by these limeys before so we did none too poorly to restrict them to 3, while the Captain snuck a late ball under the well covered goalie to keep our pants on. There was some OK possession play but, as Giller pointed out, that’s not really how the nannas score goals. Playing possession football also requires an ability to push into gaps, open defenses and run on to that final pass – not something the nannas are known for doing with much regularity. The majority of Nanna goals at this level seem to come from scrubbing and hustling, jostling a loose ball and limping it over the line while the goalie is down. Its the final move we’re missing, either we need a striker with some foot skills (including the ability to kick with a left foot) who can actually take on a defense – especially the one on ones with the keeper – or we need to really focus on the final combinations, develop some interplay skills in front of the box, where there’s a little bit more expectation between the front two as to what may actually be about to happen. Call it prediction, call it set plays, call it future reading, call it what you will, it’s what we need. hell what we really need is some training, I’m sure that some basic strategic practice would lift the Nanna game by at least 3 – 4 %, and that my brown friends is the difference between losing badly and almost winning !

p.s. the 21st of July has been locked in as the inaugural beach box poker event. the nannas will get crazy high on a cocktail of bourbon and hollywood nose buffet before losing their money and passing out in the sand… tasteful !

match report 070426

match report

3-3 vs hyderoos [the pits]
DC 5(3) | CB 4 | RH 4 | AW 1 | CG 1(gk) | TH 3(coach)

The Nannas looked to have the game under control after Daniel Crooks had put The Brown men ahead following some nice passing in the box.

A midfielder from the opposition team whose name is unknown struck from 30 yards, drilling the ball into the bottom corner beyond Chris Gill, and then said: “We need to sort out the sloppy goals from set-pieces.

“Thankfully I popped up with a nice goal. I think we were feeling we would not get much from the game after the way we played in the second half.” He added on themightfightingnannas.com: “To come back as we did a point felt like it was the winner. The late goal gave us a lift.

“We are conceding goals but we are scoring them too and that means we are still on course for the APISC Cup.”

The Nannas boss Tom Howie was disappointed with a draw after an ‘eventful week’ which saw the departure from the playing field of his close friend Leg.

“We wanted to give victory to Leg today,” Howie told themightyfightingnannas.com, “and it was an eventful week.”

“We should have won by five goals,” he claimed. “We didn’t see Hdeyderoos creating many chances today but they scored three goals.

“It’s the story of the season. Fantastic spirit but we have to learn to make the most of our chances. “We hit the post three times and I think we should have scored at least five times today.

“It’s a little bit about confidence – maturity as well. The basic ingredients are fantastic and we produced some exciting football.”

match report 070315

match report, team photo

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3-11 vs Thursday Knights [MacRobertson]
DC 3, TW, RH, AW, TK(gk), TH(coach, temp goalkeeper)
MOM DC

It was a tight five, again,
and it was bloody hot, again.

But – we kept our pants on a little more than last outing against these limey nuff nuffs. The first half was pretty tight with some nice possession play and some excellent passing back style moves. Tao had a glaringly obvious goal disallowed which was a bloody travesty and the fatty in goals at the other end looked well sheepish. ‘Come on lads’… my arse! Can’t remember the exact sequence of goals but the half time score was 3-5. After some confusion in the goal mouth (fatty palming balls off the floor and rolling around like a jelly wrestler) DC managed to find the net. This was followed by some nice passing and an aggressive run into the area by Bestlookingnanna™ who drew the goalie before squaring perfectly it for DC to tap in. The Captain was putting in some sterling defense work and even ran past a nimble limey after a nice feign (didn’t work a second time however, dirty nimble limeys). Wal (who arrived late, forcing the Coach™ into an early and extremely risky goal-keeping venture) made a couple of nice runs to the back door but didn’t quite get the delivery he was expecting (not sexually, not like Leaving Las Vegas). Kondo was making some fearless saves in the ugly face of an overly aggressive style of play peddled by the Eng Landers.

But – then it all went to shit! The nannas ran out of legs (“push up wal, I’ll stay back *pant*, *gasp*”) and ideas. Tao was harshly denied again, this time by the post, Striker™ had no idea about the subsequent rebound that hit his leg before bouncing uselessy wide. The game finally ended with the opposition circling the goal mouth like pommy vultures, passing it around the box before tapping home. Kondo made a couple of great saves to frustrate them somewhat in this endeavour but it was pretty ugly at the end… not to mention f**cking hot !

But – we did finally make it to Section 8 for beers, dumplings and desserts dipped in soy sauce, with a bona fide Nana no less (El and Lus Nana that is, who was also at the game in a supporting role, although she seemed the most impressed by Thomas’ coaching – “… has Thomas played soccer at quite a high level before?” say what ?). We were also joined for post match discussions by our Nanna brethren, Jim (after a hard nights proffesional writing training ???) and Chas (treading the disorganised charity boards) – nice.

ps. I had a post match shower for the first time ever. (In the ladies toilets no less (I mean it is a girls school)…. dirty!)

match report 070308

match report

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1-6 vs Gash Backs [MacRobertson]
DC 1, CB, TW, RH, AW, TK, JH, TH(coach)
MOM CB, DC, TK

Not a great one for the Nannas, not one to remember, and not one that I really do remember…

The opposition had a few skills, though not many and not really enough to outclass the nannas, but they did have a much better sense of team cohesion and the outward appearance of a game plan, which of course is something generally lacking in the nanna camp. On the upside there was some nice passing in the early part of the game, due in no short part to the intensive pre-game drilling in the foyer. The gash backs (what the f**k is a gash back ?) took a psychological advantage with the first goal and some overly robust play “it was 50/50 ref !”, yeah right ! They lacked pace however and the nanna forwards were making inroads by running around and down the flanks DC and CB had a couple of shots palmed away but were void of any real penetration (regardless of chas’ continued and thankless running). Jim was seen to be lacking in commitment on a couple of occasions and was yelled at once by Chas. Tao insisted on standing on the ball before shepherding into untenable situations. everyone was playing pretty shit really, as witnessed by the MOM vote, one of the most evenly spread to date with nannas having trouble deciding who was the least rubbish…

ps [070319] minor oversight, i forgot to mention the crappest moment of the night, DC made a final bruising charge into the area, was clumisly manhandled by the muppet in goals but managed to stay on his feet and and was just about to tap the ball into an open gaol, too late, the ref had already blown his whistle and was poiting at the spot. As Striker™ stepped forward the final siren sounded… high drama, a penalty outside the normal parameters of the game, a chance to save some face, but no !!! the goalie went the wrong way but D’Coq totally cocked it up and shot at his leg, deflection, no goal, dirty c**k s**king mother f**ckers….

spring/summer 06 stats rev 1.0

stats

That’s right nannas, the stats have been controversially revised. After some painstaking forensic work by D’Coq and the Coach new evidence was unearthed which has given us a much clearer picture of the season. There are still some minor niggling inconsistencies but they are not crucial in the final order of things.

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a brief summary:

The Majors:
Crooks takes the award for most committed nanna with 13 appearances
Brown takes the award for most MOM votes over the season with 53
Crooks takes the Striker trophy with a total of 22 goals

The Minors:
most on-field appearances 12 – shared by Brown, Crooks, Hannan and Wong
Most MOM awards 4 – shared by Brown and Crooks
Most MOM votes in a single game 10 – shared by Brown and Crooks
Best MOM vote average 4.5 – Gill
Most goals scored in a single game 5 – Shared by Brown, Crooks and Weis
Best goal average 1.85 – Crooks

for full stats: nannas-stats-season00-06-07.pdf
for all the graphs: nannas-graphs-season00-06-07.pdf

A decision still has to be made regarding Wals flagrant disregard of the Nanna code in not posting a single report after taking home the MOM twice, a possible 15 MOM votes may yet be deducted by upper management…

The forensics team would also like to point out the importance of full and accurate stats in match reporting.

brown and proud.
ps. Kudos to the captain for the initial compilation upon which this revision is based

match report 061019

match report, team photo

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score: 2-3 | goals: DC 2 | mom: DC
loc: Wesley | team: RH, DC, TK, CB, AW | opp: Forgone Conclusion

A great game against worthy opposition which ended somewhat disappointingly for a Nanna outfit which showed spirit and teamwork if not the height of their skills.

The C.O.D.E was seen to have an immediate effect with Nanna cohesion extremely tight from the outset. Positional play wasn’t as good as it should have been but the defensive work-rate was highly impressive. Forgone Conclusion were a tight unit with some fine skills and were unlucky not to open the scoring but the nannas were playing like a well oiled machine (minus some of the passing accuracy). At half time the score was 0-0 and the captain had to muster sage advice for the troops between gasps for oxygen. The second half started appallingly with all the nannas save Tom basically resigned to a goal being scored following a run from the kickoff, 3 nannas stopped to watch and almost began to walk back to the centre. Luckily the final shot lacked pace and the nannas picked up their game following the let off. There were some nice one twos and few chances with the head, the captain putting a couple of long range efforts in the right direction. The deadlock was finally broken with some great service from Takesh and nice turn from d’Coq. This was added to shortly after with another tight inside finish. The Nans were up 2 goals with a bit of breathing space but the C.O.D.E began to fray at the edges as the opposition niggles became a little less sportsmanly. The running back was getting worse and the captain was seen to stop at about half way and do a bit of spectating. It wasn’t long before FG were queing up for shots on goal as the Nannas side-coaching steadily increased in volume and abusiveness. Eventually FG started scoring and a late chance at the end for Chas could have equalised things but he laid it off to an unsuspecting and off target Coq. Final score was 3-2 which was a disappointing way to finish what was a really tight contest.

photo: Thomas Howie

function pics

team photo

okay so here are a couple of phots from the function. still working on the vids, need some input from the administrator.

a bunch o thumbnails option, which are easy but small and kinda suck…click to see the full size image, Hinlkey do you know if it is possible to change the automatic thumbnail size, if we can do that we’re laughing… and I really think we need a wider column (does anyone have an 800 pix monitor that we care about ???)
supperinn.jpg 10 proud men and a lazy susan

tennis.jpg that ain’t daytona ?

post_function.jpg outside prudence just after 3

chas_mask.jpg the gak gimp

o.k so this is the other option, it’s quite a bit more work (and could be counter productive if people don’t actually click on an image to see the bigger one thinking this is as big as it gets). instead of micro thumbnails we use 430px wide images

supperinn1.jpg 10 brown men and a lazy susan. Quail, pork hot pot, salt and pepper squid, lots of Flounder and a box of Coopers pale ale. Tom did a fine job of ordering which almost made up for asking Andy if he wanted a teeshirt with ‘tourist’ printed on it, needless to say Wal was unimpressed. Hugh took the prize for being loudest and first to be threatened with “we’ll call your mum”, though chas later won the prize for first drink spilt on self. Tao takes the prize for being in three photos, Hinkley for looking the most trashed.

post_function1.jpg 10 Brown Men outside Prudence after a night of poker and toilet seat good times. D’Coq managed to not lose all his money but did lose his jacket. Chas had to have a little lie down midway through taking everyones money (except Peter who came in for one hand and made off with $20), Controversy of the night belonged solely to Mssr Howie a) inviting a woman who was not a stripper to the nannas poker function? b) failing to punish a misdeal (when I had 2 aces you $%#^) c) declaring that suits don’t count ? and pots are split ? d) shafting Kondo when he had a flush.
Thanks: to Peter for letting a bunch of bums on the nose buffet muscle decent fee paying customers off the big table and generally rearrange the place to suit their needs: Kudos also to Chris Gill who won the Nannas Medal of Diplomacy (and Takesh for funding said diplomatic mission)

Nannas merchandising makes a bold move into the lucrative Chinese market

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The Nannas Logo sees it’s first coverage in the Chinese press, featuring prominently in a recent edition of the Shanghai Daily. Unfortunately the image was reproduced in B&W diminishing much of the impact of the poos and wees colour scheme proudly sported by themightyfightingnannas. Merchandising distributors on the mainland are rumored to be clamoring for a piece of the action after Nannas management turned down an offer from Taiwanese interests which they said ‘drastically undervalued the worth of the Nanna brand’.

Thanks to our man on the Bund, Jeremy Stewart for the documentation.

inaugural match report 060921

match report

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location: Wesley | nannas: RH, DC, TK, JH, AW | opposition: tbc
score: 6-1 | goals: DC 5, JH 1 | mom: DC

A great game which though it didn’t start well ended with atypical vigour from the Nannas.

A tight 5 contingent (after Gilly cited homeland security concerns) took to the court just after 8.30pm to find an opposition that weren’t really up to the task. The nannas took their time to find a rhythm with an early charge from the opp pushing hinkley into a late challenge in the area. Continue reading inaugural match report 060921 →