Woman on the radio said the rain would stop. Liar. Nevertheless, Keith fronted up with a team worthy of the name to battle Shirley Not The Wankers on their Club Day on Home Soil. Always good to beat them on those occasions if possible, and possible it was. Notwithstanding all the no shows from skitteries for reasons as weak as my pull out game. But that meant, Poacher and Toad and Chief took to the field. Even if one of them couldn't catch a ball if you threw it at him.

From the very first moment when Kev caught the kick off ball and stormed ahead, we were always three gears ahead of a uninventive and slow Shirley team. They seemed for the most part, two steps behind every move we made, every breath we took. And I was watching them.
Even Mr Jones looked good. Mr Stewart had a few problems in the cold and wet securing the lineout ball, but whatever errors made there were made up for in all other areas of his play. That one's a keeper, if we can.
Sean, Sam, Kevvy. There's not much too say except they keep on doing exactly what they're supposed to do every time, all the time. They're a pleasure to watch. Muncher was constantly in the refs ear and I'm not sure how much that contributed or altered the penalty count but one voice speaking is a trend we need to get used to. It seems to work.

One would have thought Tom would be used to playing footy in the wet, but it appears he much prefers playing in the dry as his kicking for touch didn't always happen and his kicking for goal also went awry. Dick put his big boy pants on and took over converting tries to make up any shortfall so that was good.
As mentioned earlier, Poacher started the game and didn't break down hardly ever once. Maybe the old man still has it in him? But, let's not talk about Toad.

Always impressed with Johnny Luxton on the wing, but young Jared had a blinder of 60 minutes on the paddock. A well deserved MVP. Cool and collected under pressure and able to pressurise the opposition when needed. Another winger who stepped up his confidence game was Brad, who it seems, responds well to clear simple guidance and gives us clear simple straightforward play in return. Hopefully his efforts will not go unrewarded in future games.

With about 20 minutes to go, the rain became too heavy for me to take any further photographs or videos, so I didn't.