VS Missouri Black and Blues, Win 33-5

Sitting down after consuming copious amounts of the panadol and voltaren replacements, I hope this all makes sense......

Last game of the day but we are already in the finals, a five team round robin so believe we will be playing the Cardinals. Despite that we were all fired up, with injuries to Carbs, Puss and the Buzzard (plus one of the Wisconsin boys was in hospital getting patched up from the first game) we had enough subs.

Our first came pretty quickly off the kickoff, where we overpowered the opposition ruck to launch Sooley off the outside of Lardro at first. He bashed and crashed his way up from their forty metres to finally one hand the ball like an alley loop in the last tackle to BJ running in support to score.

Next was a blindside move from a driving ruck with Moses first up to receive 20 out, he just planted his big fat foot down and tumbledried a few opposition players on his way to the tryline.

Next try was to the Missouri boys, breakdown from us about fifty out had the winger from Missouri pouncing on the ball to kick upfield, he dribbled it all the way to the tryline with only Lardro sprinting with him to prevent the try, Lardro and probably the Missouri boy would say that the try was not scored, but the ref is final arbiter.

Final try of the half went to our Wisconsin import John, who received a ball we think from Becks out on the wing (the big blond fella was his description). With 60, no 50....no 20m to go, he ran around the outside and scored. First half up, but don't know the true score, someone did kick conversions.

Next try came after an altercation with the no8 and our very own Sooley, this resulted in a red card to the Missouri boy (remember not to say "motherfucker" on the rugby fields in the US). Mind you Flipper was sent off with a yellow in the first, apparently he's got big elbows! Anyway we had a penalty 25 out, the call was to kick into the corner, but Sooley overruled the tapper and said pass it to me...and we all know how we shouldn't upset the rampaging bull. He aimed straight at the opposition and blasted them all out of the way to score under the posts. No doubt sticking to the No8.

The last try was from about 60 out, blindside move with Marc picking up off the back, the blindside fell off him and set sail up field. Tatts was roaring off up field inside of him, and with just the fullback to beat, thought here's my chance to score, Marc just had to draw and pass with no one in front. Of course a dummy was thrown, but Marc saw Tatts sad, sad face and gave him the ball to score out wide(ish). The last act was Lardro setting up the ball to convert, stepping back, then hearing Sumo yelling at the ref to get out of the way 40 out as he charged the ball down....and converted it!!

Beers by the field, Gogo dancers at the local pub, its gonna be a late night, especially as our 8am kickoff tomorrow is now delayed to 3.30.