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Nasties on fire in the Sydney heat. |
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Written by Jeremy Beynon
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Thursday, 29 January 2009 |
 Another balmy Thursday night saw 20 nasties hit the field, with two new blokes welcome Colin and Ross.
For the new blokes the night did not start without incident and they must have wondered what they had got themselves into when infront of all players The nasties players player and chief organiser of Thursday night touch was uncerimoniously sacked as warm up co-ordinator for some blow-in from a fancy school.
Fortunatly The Nasties players player was man enough to take this "Julius Ceaseresque" back stab with good grace and made no further mention of it.
Without further ado after the rather basic and unimaginative warm up the touch began.
It began with the team playing from "The Mita End" opening up an early 3 - 0 scoreline showing some great running particularly around the statuesque Dean Guberina who looked a little rusty on his return from holidays.
Justin Burgess as always was in fine form and looked a certainty to break his own long held record of balls consecutively dropped. His current record stands at 11.
He failed last night by eventually catching his 9th pass received, better luck next week Justin. Although Sean started to show some real promise in this department and may well step up next week.
As the game moved on the game evened up on the back of a scintilating Mike King Try, with 30 yards to run he clearly outpaced Aido for the score. This gave his team hope and the score was quickly reduced to a 5 - 4 tense affair.
Tim Bentley sporting an astoundingly poor t-shirt and short combination was starting to make some real ground after he was touched and on the back of such illeagal move Skip McGrath showed what being a Nasty means to him by diving over for a try despite the fact he was landing in dog shit.
Although many players in the team facing Mark Hodgson's bare chest would deem having to touch his sweaty torso required more bravery than diving into dog shit.
With Skips try moving the score to 6 - 4 the game dead and buried but three sensational tries (one to the new guy Ross) against all the odds saw the team containing the King brothers, Justin & Pup come home for the well deserved win.
With so many players there it was very hard to pick the moment of greatest humour, a special mention must go to Pup for his Scooter, helmet and alarmingly bright new half price boots. Matty Read did push him close with his white sunnies and singlet.
It appears that I will be naming a player of the night award eachweek from now on. So with no further ado I would like to annoint Mike Sergeant as the inaugral Boyo's Best Player for running down player after player with his 14 metre stride length.
Onwards and upwards with The Newport Nasties |
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