Keith vs Shirley
Ground: Bob Deans 3
Time: 2-45pm

Team List

Forwards
Fred BROADMORE
Greg BROWN
Phil HUGHES
Dave ELDER
Richard BRACEY
Hayden SMITH
Blair McINTOSH
Barrie GIBBS

Backs
Heath BARLOW
Brendyn LAWSON
Paul WELLS
Paul CRICHTON
Patrick LUCEY
Stuart HERRIOT
Gary RICHARDS

Reserves
Kevin WILLIAMS
George PHILIP
Colin GRAVETT
Kristen CURRIE
Phil KEARNS
Ian COWAN
Justin GULLERY
Adam JOHNSTON
Leyton HUNT
Rob FOLEY
Shane BOYD
John LUXTON


Points: 0-3, 0-8, 0-13, 0-15, 0-20, 0-22, 5-22, 7-22, 12-22, 17-22, 22-22

Tries: John LUXTON (2), Rob FOLEY, Shane BOYD
Conv: Shane BOYD
Pen:

Player of the Day: Greg BROWN

Photographs here: http://207.191.227.90/~keithpic/2011/20110521/


TOO MANY KEITHS SPOIL THE BROTH?



Having 16 Keiths on the sideline is much better than having 2. It just makes it harder to select a starting XV with so much talent itching to get their boots on.
Nevertheless, Trout and Lars managed to select a team which after getting a fright right from the beginning, took a while to settle down and start putting points on the board. 45 minutes in fact before that happened. But that doesn't mean we were letting Shirley walk all over us for the 1st half. They certainly had to work for their 22 points.

With a few boys in unfamiliar positions, play was a bit non sequitur, but changes at half time bought relief in those difficult areas. Mainly passing and kicking and running. Johnny Farnham bought his voice to the game, Johnny Luxton bought his wheels and Johnny Newcombe wasn't there, and so the general play changed and the scoring commenced.

Even though Shirley and the Ref were oblivious to the high tackle rule, it was the cleanest game that any team from Shirley have played against us for quite a number of seasons. While there are clubs and teams with worse reputations, they played well with only a couple of high tackles (one right to Colin's throat which the ref declined to notice) and a kicking incident (which the ref failed to punish according to the rules) of which Gaz took exception to.

It's been said before, but I'll refresh everyones memory, we don't need a ref on our side or one who knows the rules to win. We just need to score more points than the other team.
We know we can do that and we know how to do that. It's just a matter of wanting to do it.
Remember, the game starts on Thursday at training, not 5 minutes before kick off on Saturday.