Date: 25 August 2012
Time: 16h30
Venue: Mutual
Opponents: UCT
Saturday 25 August was a much anticipated day for the Mutual
Hockey Club as it was the last game of the 1s season and by god did they end
off with a bang! Their opponents were UCT but to be honest their name needn’t be
mentioned as the 1s were the heat despite the weather being the complete
opposite.
Seeing as the 1s put up a high standard for the 2s to
follow, we had to perform, and with last week’s win on our side we had no
reason why we could not defeat our local rivals, plus we have already beaten
them once this season, why not make it two.
As mentioned before the weather was, well to be true, it was
horrendous, however that did not stop the Mutual 2s from putting on a good
display of hockey. The side stayed
largely the same from last week with one exception; we had a boost of
experience from Bollie who apparently was giving too much lip in the 1s so they
decided to promote him to the 2s and this was what we needed as our defence
this season has been questionable. With this addition it saw an improvement of
only letting one goal through during the match. (it can also be noted that the
dodgy 2s captain known as Deny was sent in the opposite directions – This
probably helped the fact that UCT only managed to score 1 goal)
As per normal Bob was throwing his overheads from the centre
to the forwards and on one particular overhead ‘the Ninja’ was sprinting to the
baseline, adamant that he was going to keep the ball in play and sadly, to his
misjudgement, the space between the baseline and concrete curb was a lot
shorter than he thought, resulting in a minor collision with the concrete and
coming of second best.
Like last week despite our dominance we found ourselves 0-1
down however we were not worried as we knew we had what it took to overcome
this minor hurdle and we did exactly that with, once again our seasoned
grandfather Bastick, having a tap in at
left post from Glenzo’s slap at goals. Although he feels that the ball was
going wide and he corrected its flight path we still think he stole the goal, after
all he did go to Edgemead, but like last week we were delighted for the ball to
cross the white line and equalise, score Mutual 1-1 UCT.
Amongst the hockey that we being played a couple of guys
were involved with some not so hockey activities such as our cc Sparky getting
a little nip to the “crown jewels” resulting in him on the baseline on his back
with feet in the air spitting out words that sounded like “I’m going to vomit”
then after he recovered from that he kopped one to the face in the D, apart from
that he put in a good effort all round, must have been the fitness that he
partially participated in during the week... (Sparky taking a ball to the nuts
is also the most action he has gotten in months! So well done on getting to 3rd
base with a hockey ball)
The two people that seem as if they are the ‘quite one’s’
proved us wrong again with Skywalker having these outlandish yet hilarious
screams at the umpire often ending in a green or a warning and Carl who once
again found his panties in a knot and took it out on our opponents striker,
what a lad.
However apart from all the banter that Bastick kops he has
been playing well of late, I guess he has commenced his twilight years. In
addition to that statement Bastick was involved with the following goal too,
however this time he had a little hick up and our ever so cool Glenzo, who
joined the team half way through the season, was there to tap it in to put
mutual in the outright lead for which it stayed that way till final whistle
blew, score Mutual 2-1 UCT.
Heading into this game mutual only needed 1 point to secure
a spot in TC next season and after the 70minutes of hockey on Saturday these
men held down 3 points. Even though we are now in TC next year our season is
not over, we still have 2 more games and we intend to end off on a powerful
note setting up a solid foundation for next year.
Bet you didn’t see me write this, cause I’m a ……
Ninja
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