Good morning guys
I never seem to get tired of saying this, the “Thorough bred
3s” are still unbeaten!
(Copy/paste). Seems like we dropped our dead weight between
the posts aka Vis and were rewarded with another clean sheet.
Date: 2 June 2012
Time: 18h00
Venue: Mutual
Opponents: Durbanville
While watching the 4s play before our game, how I have loved
curtain raisers – although normally the 1s are our opening act so was a good
change of scenery to see a different side be rewarded by playing before us.
Anyway back to my point, the few of us that were there noticed most of
Durbanville’s side had arrived 2 hours before the time kitted and were warming
up on the grass.
I have never seen a team so eager to get an ass whooping.
Our pre-game routine went pretty much the same as always, gathering in the
changing rooms. Chirping Spud/Mick about broomsticks and bananas. Getting out
there 25 minutes before the game to have a warm up jog, (Although there was
talk about booting Sparky after he made us look like complete chops during his
‘Dynamic warm up’) 6-pack arriving during warm up and lighting a smoke and of
course Team-Africa MIA. No that doesn’t stand for with Mia, I mean Missing In
Action.
Unfortunately I was unable to psych out the opposing captain
this week and we made the right call winning the toss. I did however use my
jedi mind game on him to give me Goose as an umpire in the second half. At
least that was we wouldn’t get a short corner disallowed because it ‘didn’t hit
the back board’ there would however be a lot worse things about to happen but
we will get to that.
Durbanville tried a sneaky UCT tactic throwing an overhead
for their first move. This time however we were ready for it. Shouting ‘MY
BALL’ from the top D, the Durbanville players parted like the Red Sea, giving
Tosser plenty of time to move the ball to safetly. We decided to take the same
approach we took against pinelands and completely dominate the game from the
start and it wasn’t long until dividends paid out from all this pressure. ‘Simon’
vRoy Tap-in Blake pouncing of the loose ball after the Durbanville keeper made
a save. Mutual 1 - 0 Durbanville.
We scored almost immediately again, another Blake tap-in
after being slipped the ball from 6-pack. And we all know Blake, he never
misses from p-spot. This man is on fire. Mutual 2 - 0 Durbanville.
Durbanville had their fair share of counters in after we
took the two goal cushion. Mick and Caveman proving why they are part of the 3s
solid defence coming away with the ball during 2 and sometimes 3 on 1 situations.
Shooter and Pete controlled the middle as always and we started to dominate
again. Spud running circles around their defence like he was on Redbull, these
old men hate chasing kids around.
Tosser somehow finding himself in space in the circle, no idea
what he was doing there or actually what happened, but the ball went behind for
a long corner. Racing, speed walkers style, to the sideline and after what
seemed like 5 tries, he took a the long corner quickly and smashed the ball
into the circle to find Scooter. Scooter making no mistake….this time and
finishing off to extend Mutual lead and put us that much closer to our bonus
point. Mutual 3 - 0 Durbanville.
With that the half time whistle went. I think Tosser has
been keeping the same half time team talk we had on week 1. ‘Carry on doing
what we are doing, just do it better and score more goals. If we out score our
opponents we will win’
With those motivating words we took the field for the
seconds half. And this was to be the longest half EVER. Let me quickly
paraphrase the next 20minutes. Their umpire missed 4 cardable back sticks in
the circle – 2 of which could have been flicks. Goose not wanting to feel left
out didn’t card their captain for a more obvious and blatant lazy foot than the
worst we have seen from Bollie. I mean come on, he didn’t even put up his hand
before he was about to stick out his foot. (We all love Bollies premature
apologies). With our base camp fully set up and stocked on the Durbanville 25
we continued to push at them with no luck.
Then after a quick consultation with Shooter, Tosser decided
to change the formation to 3-3-4. Throwing Winders upfront who even after the
game had no idea what was going on. With 4 strikers we would hopefully get on
the end of all those missed chances. And this formation change proved to work
wonders, ‘on form’ Blake turning up in the right place at the right time getting
on the end of a cross to put us with in one goal of the bonus point we
deserved. Also taking Blake to another hatrick, when a striker scores a hatrick
he might have been lucky. When he gets his second hatrick you think that the
first one wasn’t a fluke. But when he does it again for the third time, making
it a hatrick of hatricks in consecutive game you know the guy is on fire. FLAME
ON GINGER!! Mutual 4 - 0 Durbanville.
At this point the Durbanville captain approached me and
asked why we were chirping their umpire. I told him very bluntly it was because
he was shit. So he asked why we were doing this because we were four goals up
and there wasn’t really a difference how much we scored. Bonus point you noob!
With that he put his tail between his legs and shut up. A wonderful ‘KOF’
moment shared between captains.
The Durbanville defence seemed like beginner surfers having
wave after wave of Mutual attack smashed at them. Finally after many many short
corner appeals, Goose got involved and awarded a short corner in the other
umpires D. Deciding that our straight drags weren’t working, we thought why not
give it back to Blake, since this was around the P-spot area and we know he is
deadly. Shooter faking a drag and pushing it along the ground to Blake who made
no mistake slotting in the bonus point. Mutual 5 - 0 Durbanville.
With our defence tightening up as if we saw the Durbanville
strikers with broomsticks, we decided to hold off and protect out bonus point
for the last few minutes. But our strikers had other ideas, forcing a shorty in
the dying moments. Now as I am sure a lot of you are well aware, the “Thorough
bred 3s” are very involved in charity work and today was no different. They
decided to give the last shorty of the match to Tosser so that he could drag
flick. And he didn’t disappoint at all. Sorry that was a typo,he did
disappoint, the weak attempt being saved but the keeper only to fall to Spud on
top D. Spud couldn’t believe his luck, ran in and smashed the ball with all his
might, only for Scooter to get on the end of it and claim the goal. Mutual 6 -
0 Durbanville.
I notice there is one person that we haven’t mentioned in
this entire match report…so ‘Sherman’.
The most he did during the game was fetch a river ball that
Durbanville played that went out for a 16. His most boring game of hockey in
the colours of green and blue to date. But he proved again that he can do what
Vis can’t, another clean sheet.
Final Score Mutual 6 – 0 Durbanville
Looking at the logs, I think most of the side will have to be treated for chronic nose bleeds we are so high up. #JustSaying
Next Game: Got a busy 3 games in 5 days!!
Saturday 9th June @ WPCC
Time: 19h30
Opponents: WPCC
Sunday 10th June @ Stellenbosch
Time: 10h30
Opponents: Van der Stel
Wednesday 13th June @ Mutual
Time: 20h30
Opponents: Conberg
Taking us to 6 wins for the season. Securing our second
clean sheet and third bonus point. VIVA “Thorough bred 3s” VIVA!! FTW
Blake on 16 goals out of 7 games, flame on ginger!
Yours in awesomeness
Tosser
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