25 July 2009
despite some girly jersey-pulling by Wests
Perth-Bayswater first grade threatened to descend from finals contenders to laughing stocks as they suffered their most embarrassing result of the year, going down 23-17 to a young Wests-Subiaco team currently occupying tenth and last place in the competition by a fair margin. The details are probably best forgotten.
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In other grades, seconds defeated Wests 23-12, thirds drew with Wests 10-10, fourths/fifths went down to Wests 31-14, under 20s lost a close one to Wests 24-21, Under 18s had the bye and the women scraped in against Midland girls 91-0.
Filthy Fifths headed off to sunny Subiaco to take on the under-aged Wests-Subiaco fourth grade team. Fonz did exceptionally well to remember to bring son Charlie, but failed to remember his kit. Wests had clearly been given the heads up on our winger Fabio and duly painted a soccer pitch straight over the top of the rugby field creating mass confusion throughout the afternoon. Running into a modest breeze for the first half hour, the boys in black immediately went on the charge and camped on Wests' tryline. A scrum five metres out resulted in good backline ball, and with the line wide open and the last pass to catch, those filthy white soccer lines got in the way of Fabio and the ball spilled loose. Our flying winger Pedro was also confused by the multiple line markings and the multiple bounces of the ball. While deciding in which manner to pick up the ball, Wests snuck through and scored their first try. Soon after the toys were all thrown out of the cot by our flyhalf, Matt 'Dummy Spitter' Sefton, and his verbal spray aimed at the referee resulted in a sneaky 10 minutes cooling his heels, and watching Wests' backline go on a rampage. Slick ball by the Wests backs allowed them to take advantage of the extra man, and run in a second and then a third AND THEN a fourth. After collecting his toys and tidying his room, Dummy Spitter re-entered the fray. Broken play then saw captain Dwain 'The Train' Barr exercising his glue fingers and scooting down the left hand side with Fabio unmarked outside him. Fearful of him running on the soccer field, The Train went himself, and the play broke down. Half time saw us trailing 26-0.
The second half was a much tighter affair and the introduction of Chris ‘The Nurse’ Roberts to hooker. He successfully upset Wests' flanker with a bit of good old fashion tap dancing, and allowed some huge gusts of wind (?) to severely affect his throwing. Sustained pressure on the Wests line finally resulted in a try under the posts for 'The Train' after a quick tap, which was converted. The Train then made a break down the supporter side of the pitch, and after breaking a couple of tackles decided to draw the last line of defence, however after passing the ball (yes, The Train passed the ball for the first time this season) realised that his intended target ‘The Nurse’ must have been having a quiet beer with the supporters as he was running down the outside of the pitch (bloody markings again hey Chris). Wests hit back through their flyhalf after some good forward work. Running in the forwards this week, The Train had another crack at exercising his glue fingers. Unfortunately for him, this time Wests' cover defence spilled the ball free, and it miraculously popped inside into the hands of little brother Barr Fridge, who scooted the remaining 40 metres to score out wide, and then duly slotted the conversion. Final score, Wests-Subiaco 31, Perth 14.