This is the dawning of the age of aquarius.................

While most of the team remember this tune from their longer days, so it was at the first outing of the Farts.
First up always shows a lack of match fitness, but all the old skills, calls and moves were their (all be it a little rusty) for the farts first outing of Twenty10.
The first game had a great turnout, only missing star forward Scotty and team mascot Ash, although the play on the field wasn’t the lesser for their absence.
After the pregame organisational and peep talk from newly promoted captain (whistle tune “hail to the Chief” here) Adrian, the first half started a little tentatively, with both sides probing for weaknesses in their opposite numbers. The Farts had early pressure, and gained a PC, should have had a couple more as well. Moses was umpiring, so we missed his ability to carve up the defence up front, although Wicky, Veitchy, Cam and Needles all had good runs.
However it was Harbour City/Tawa that opened the scoring for the twenty10 season with a well worked move after a breakout form defence. They had the pace and stamina and the Farts defence was found standing and watching.
A stirring half time talk from Moses and out for the second half. Moses was back in CF position, and right from the whistle harbour City/tawa were stunned when he took a self tap and dribbled 15 metres, passing to Cam who advanced the ball more. A great start and a fore tale of what was to come. During the second half the Farts had most of the ball and pressure, resulting in Veitchy being able to hog the ball and score three goals. 2 of these were stunners, one a flick from a PC up into the net, and another after a scramble in the circle where Veitchy fell over, then promptly got up and smacked the ball in the boards.
Harbour City/Tawa (god that’s a mouthful) pulled one back, prompting an outburst of language form the Farts normally mild mannered goalie.
Thus the game ended 3 – 2 to the Farts, a first up win, with new shirts and a new captain. Not a bad start to the season.
Lots of good play this week, especially for an opener. Willy showed some pace and nice touches (even hitting the post twice from 2 feet), Moses was back to his old ways of parting the opposition defence with deft touches, Muzza and Nuts were strong in defence, Craig showed he hadn’t forgotten how to play after a year AWOL.
MVP
3 - Veitchy - lets be honest, have to give him that for the hatrick, and all good goals
2 - Cam - 1 for not being sent off or even warned, and 1 huge effort
1 – Adrian – Good first up captains knock, and showed the young opposition how to play (which pissed them off no end!)

NOTE: It was really good to see the whole team hang around afterwards for the re-Hydration session. Its vitally impotant to start putting fluids back into our bodies straight after a game, so this will be afeature of Farts post game recover program this year