Match report V Rongatai Sports Sun 16th Aug Won 4-2

India - heat, flies and dodgy food. And this is the headlines on the travel brochures!
Well, when it comes to R2 hockey, one of the key advertising by-lines must be “frustration from poor umpiring”. It’s a fact of life that teams have to supply their own umpires and they can be of questionable quality, let alone ability to control 22 guys charging at each other with wooden clubs in their hands.
And that’s what we got yesterday. Thanks to Ash, at least at one end we had an umpire that was consistent, confident and not only controlled but allowed the players to play the game.
However we all know the score with umpiring in our grade and at the end of the day have to learn to keep quiet and play the game – I’m trying too! Enough said.
The farts took on a youthful and energetic Rongatai yesterday at their home ground. With Big Dave L away, Veitchy slotted into CF, and Cameron made another appearance for the Farts.
The rest of the team was reasonably familiar (could have said solid but that only describes Nuts and Glenn!).
From that foundation, we started well and continued through out the game. It was fast and flowing for most of the first half, with lots of pressure from our attack, and only going to the sheds 2-1 up to show for it.
Ash stepped in to give the speech at half time, everyone was quiet, i think most were trying to get there breath back.
The second half was less spectacular re free running, but we still applied lots of pressure.
The Farts were the eventual winners (and seemingly less frustrated side in the second half) 4-2.

MVP
3 – Cameron, 2 good goals, lots of running, not bad considering he spent 10 mins resting in the bin!
2 – Veitchy – lots of running as usual
1 – Scott lots of support play, great running as well considering he wasn’t well (I’m sure you can get cream to get rid of the rash Scott)
1 – Nuts saved a goal off the line, needs special mention

Goals
Cameron – 2 goals, a number of conversions and some that missed the posts as well
Veitchy – 1
Dave N – 1 (a second hit the post and Wayne couldn’t quite reach it to put it in)