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Keith vs Belfast D4
Ground: Sheldon Park 2
Time: 2-45pm

Team List

Forwards
Jamie GRIEVE
Thomas MATTHEW
Steve JONES
Simon GIFFORD
Stuart HERRIOTT
Adam JOHNSTON
Mike BREUKER
Kevin WILLIAMS

Backs
Bevan WEBB
Frankie SOLI
Murray PICKEN
Paul CRICHTON
Steve ELLS
Tito SEMIOLA
Richard POWER

Reserves
Rob FOLEY
Sean BROWNE
Sam BROWN

Points: 0-3, 5-3, 8-3, 13-3, 15-3, 20-3, 20-8, 20-10, 20-15, 20-20, 20-22, 23-22, 23-25

Tries: Murray PICKEN, Steve ELLS, Steve JONES

Conv: Frankie SOLI

Pen: Richard POWER (2)




Player of the Day: Kevin WILLIAMS
Most Valuable Player: Steve JONES


Photographs here: http://keith.org.nz/?itemid=1664 (quality below par due to rain interference)

Videos here: http://keith.org.nz/?itemid=1665

O FOR AWESOME UNTIL IT BECAME O FOR AWFUL

For once, for actual once, Shithole Park was only semi-wet and muddy. And then it rained and got muddier. So that was a good start to a bad result.
Ok, let's just back up a bit. We started good; we started real good. This try from PICKEN, Murray for a start, followed by some farking good forward stuff. Sometimes the rain played merry havoc with the hands of the skitteries, but nothing a forward couldn't take off their hands and use to score tries with. Which JONES, Steve did. After doing a dry run a few minutes earlier. ELLS, Steve also scored in usual winger style to celebrate his actual 100th game for the club.
I'm not going to say we had it all over Belfast, because we didn't, but we were certainly on top in aspects that actually mattered, like the points and not being whiney pricks.

WEBB, Bevan had to be replaced for blood oozing from between his fingers of which Foley, Rob warmed up his body for ten minutes until WEBB,Bevan returned to play. Later on, the very same ten minutes of warm was replaced by ten minutes of cold in the sin-bin. It seems head high dangerous tackles are not appreciated for the artistry they truly are. Moving on.

Second half seemed to be played in opposite land to the first. Maybe it was the cold and wet taking us off the boil, but we simply let things go Belfast's way. Error compounded error, particularly in the final ten minutes when we had it all but won. Defence proved our strong point but silly kicking proved our ultimate undoing.

We can start laying blame on individual people, or we can simply accept that we all made mistakes and critical errors that the Ref misinterpreted to Belfast's advantage.

Whatever the reason for the loss, I'm just glad it wasn't snowing.