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Written by Troy McGrath
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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
9 months of gruelling pre-season preparation tapered to its pinnacle at Hitchcock Park on Thursday
as a chiseled and hardened set of the Northern Beaches' finest athletes gathered in reverential silence around Coach Trollope. Mysteriously, he sounded more like a maths master than a rugby coach with his mantra of straight lines, angles and triangles. Many were left scratching their (balding) heads and several of the Front Rower's union were clearly very lost. It was time to split. The backs were dispatched to work on straightening their lines of running. Subsequently it appeared to the conspicuously gifted MEN of the pack that the girls had spent more time on straightening their hair! The workers meanwhile drilled the lineout spookily in tune with Pup Walsh's Enigma-coded calls. Several Irish Parliament's were assembled on whether 14 is an even number (4 ball) or a double digit long ball call (answer at foot of page) but once resolved, the forwards were hunting with all the efficiency of a 1940 U-boat pack in the North Atlantic, with cruelly efficient hits and ruthless efficiency on display. The drive back to fatland for the Penrith spies concealed in the bushes will have been a sobering one as they realized the hiding their boys will be getting on Sunday from the likes of Adam 'ripper' Law, Darren 'The Fridge' Vaux, Skip 'the flick' McGrath and the newly crowned secret weapon and barbecue meister Justin 'The Hoff'. Burgess. The Band of Brothers that is the NN forward pack finished off with a few scrums and some perfect isosceles triangles. For the wash-up, legless, courtesy of the Hoff, was again on parade. (Bloody Brilliant Effort JB). Born-again-Boyo was chippier than ever and it was no surprise that all 13 backs were in contention for the Golden Boyo (raspberry beer this week). 12 relieved lads were delighted to see Frank Elsworth lift the coveted trophy ............. before dropping it! A top night. Onwards and Upward and bring on Sunday |
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