The winning streak continues!

Another winning weekend for those two stalwart teams of wellington sports, but in the tradition of Anzac weekend, both were a “close run thing”.

First the Hurricanes showed the way in a nail baiting win over the Highlanders, The game had patches of flare and skill and a fair bit of poor handling too.

Then Sunday afternoon the mighty Farts took the field against their rather younger and mostly smaller Rongotai Sports foes.

It was a strange start to the first half, Nuts was the “run on” right back but at the whistle was no where to be seen (maybe his guts were still playing up from all the Easter eggs he ate at Easter) so Toddy had to whip on for him, and secondly the Rongotai goalie was no where to be seen.

Unfortunately the Frats weren’t able to capitalize on the lack of a goalie, or the early pressure they exerted, although poor umpiring added to it as well.

Rongotai scored first after they sprinted out of defence in numbers, poor Tim (Glen is out with surgery on his wrist) in goal had no chance.

Vietchy scored to level the scores. Trapper showed his worth by firstly winding up a Rongotai sub, then subsequently asking the umpire to have a word to him resulting in him being warned.  Later in the second half there was a coming together with the same player and Adrian, and while the umpire was wandering down to sort it out Trapper (from the sideline) reminded the umpire it was the same player he’d already warned. Result, one Rongotai player in the bin!

The lads went into the sheds a couple of minutes later still at 1-1. A stirring talk at half time by Adrian, then Vietchy, The Dave, Then Scotty and finally Robbie (we really are a team full of coaches!) fired us up for the second half.

We still maintained pressure in the second half, which resulted in a string of PC’s.

Up strode big Bad Muzza from defence (like a gunslinger in and old black and white western).

His first shot at goal from a PC was a real zinger, I doubt the goalie even saw it and I’m sure it moved the goal back a couple of inches. It was the hardest hit of the season so far. 2-1!

Another PC, this time Muzza’s first shot was saved, and after a bit of a scramble he slotted his second. He had brought along his own fan club which outnumbered almost all of the other spectators, and they went wild. 3-1 up!

More pressure followed; although we couldn’t convert we started to feel pretty confident.

Then Rongotai started to get some ball of their own.  One attack was thwarted by the goalie taking a fiercely struck hit to the chest like the hero from a Rambo movie. Timbo saved us a couple of times, and both Toddy and Muzza put in big efforts with tackling to stop attacks around the circle.  But with less than 10 mins to go they scored two good goals to level the match.

What a disappointing end to the match that would be, but Vietchy slotted his second nearly on full time to give the Farts a well earned win.

Nuts brought the oranges, and a note to future orange bringers, please make sure they have easy to remove tops. Needle spent 10 mins trying to unscrew the top off the fruit juice bottle, finally he asked fr help and Adrian simply flipped the top up!

Goals

2- Muzza

2 – Vietchy

MVP

3 – Muzza for his two goals, and for solid defence which included standing his ground as a Rongotai player tried to go through him.

2 – Timbo – good performance by the stand in goalie

1 – Trapper – Officially an assist - got one of their players warned then binned

1 – Nuts – Brought the oranges, what more can I say?

No word of next weeks game yet, will keep you posted.

Needle to bring oranges.