 Nasties Rugby Newport RFC clubhouse saw the jersey presentation to the Nasties from our patron the Right Honourable Member of Parliment Mr Rob Stokes, who worringly only qualifies next season for six matches with the Nasties. and from the Sandhill Warrior our personal fitness mentor. Stokes though is very keen to don the much sponsored Nasties jersey. When quizzed on an appearance he confirmed "Absolutely, am definitely coming down for a few matches this year and am looking forward to playing the entire season next year with the nasties". The warrior delighted in these comments adding "Rob, I'll get you into shape". Once the official duties were performed the nasties circulated with the crowd, telling anecdotes and the like. After a few beers the truth behind a few of the withdrawals from Sunday's visit to Penrith came through. The writer can only shake his head in disappointment despite the speakers obvious attempt at bribery (Thanks for the beer), Trent Williams started the season as our enforcer, a man with menace, a man with a reputation, a man of steel. Trent has withdrawn from Sundays match with the Legless Emu's with a Stitch. TWO days before the match.... Even his 6 month old daughter shock her head in disappointment. Williams himself was unrepentant "Mate, it hurts. It gives me the same pain as when I was little and I fell over onto my two Barbie dolls that I had asked for as my 15th birthday present". Other forwards present nodded in sympathy. Normally such an event would have drawn ridicule on the clubs online media outlet, fortunately for Williams, two backs (now honourary forwards both) have really gone above and beyond. Sean P, has confirmed that he is soon to launch his own musical modelled on his favourite TV show of all time and his new found love of Flamenco dancing. "FLAME". Panam.... noted "Dance is the best, I love dance", despite drawing some suprising looks from his teammates he continued "I have been doing flamenco for years, I can dance. That is why I skip around other wings, my hip movement is superb... I am ranked 43rd in NSW for hip movement alone!". That maybe so, however when questioned why he wore cycling pants to a photo shoot, he was a little more coy. Eventually after some grilling he admitted that now that he was in FLAME (a cross between Fame and Flamenco dancing) he needed an edge to his look and old cycling shorts was it. Pup Walsh disagreed "He looks like a typical Aussie, you wouldn't see that in Yorkshire". 17 Australians nodded and ackowledged that they wished they were from Britain. Despite the two spectacular efforts above, it would be remiss of us to leave out our stonemason from tonights events. Most teams would be delighted to have a tower of strength, a man with many first grade matches under his belt, a man cut out of granite, a man who cuts granite with his bare hands. Unfortunately, this man cannot make this weekends contest as he has a "day of" ...... wait for it........ meditation (yes meditation) planned. See you on Sunday in Penrith.... Arggghhhh the Nasties |
