Vs Toe Poke
Lost 4-11
CG, TK, JH 1, AW, DC 1, RH, CB 1 (MOM)
Opposition (1)

The Magnificent Seven! It’s been a while. Country Jim was there in all the splendour of his shiny green Castlemaine shorts. Takeshi battled hard and chased down the opposition with unflinching tenacity. Andy Wong was rattling around the back door but couldn’t quite find the spare key tonight. Hinkley looked the part when going in for a flying header. Gilly was a little enraged early on when we were losing 1-5 and started piffing the ball like he was running a lolly scramble. Cocky pulled off a big run cross court that turned into an unlikely looking shot that found the net in what was probably the goal of the night. At one point Gilly got caught out of goals and the opposition lobbed a ball toward goal. I was last man back and I leapt up arms out to catch the ball as if I were suddenly transformed into the keeper. As the ball got closer, I realised I wasn’t the keeper and gently caressed the ball with all the je ne sais crois of a lurching frottage gone horribly wrong, before it sailed into the goal. Not sure if that move got me the Mom. Probs not. Look, we nearly drew the second half. Halftime score was 1-7. So the second half was a nail biting 3-4. Although a respectable second half result, the nannas may have found their respectability wanting when using the sportingness measure as a proxy (for respectability). In which case these ladies…

may have sung us their classic line “you ain’t ever gonna be respectable”. Sportingness may have taken a hit on Thursday night as the Nannas cranked into some classic old man crank. We can do better, we have done better and we will do better.