"In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can obtain is to conceal them." As sport is often described as war, we really should have heeded Sun Tzu's advice. In playing the Alky Bots, last year's winners, we needed to bring our game and our moves. Unfortunately they saw all our moves coming and shut us out of the game to win comfortably, 6-2.
We started off pretty well - climbing over their players on defence and burrowing through their holes on attack. Nick B found his gap, wide enough for his fleet footed white legs (that no one, no one ever sees) to run through and score for a brilliant solo effort.
From there however, things fell out of place for us. All these factors, like those of a combination lock, clicked in. We got a bit lethargic around the field and gave them plenty of yards, we started to lose our effectiveness in our driving patterns, and most importantly they started to step up a gear and they drove the ball through the field like rockets.
They began with a quickie inside two of defenders - one of those awesome diving tries only seen in this sport (picture a hawk swooping below and through two falling trees), followed by others - most of which came from good driving plays prior. They sure had some tanks on their team but they (pulled their weight and) ran hard. A couple of annoying tries were given away too - an intercept and a sleeper that caught us, erhm, napping... In the heat of battle, no one should have been caught sleeping on the job.
Their final was complete class: a short pass followed by a quick wrap and a quick pass to the runner who sliced through like a bayonet. Stu was left saving the grass that the runner cut up. It wasn't his fault, nor that of the others on the field at the time. Credit has to be given to the precision and the speed that the Alky Bots operated this move at.
Lesson to be learnt: disposition = "Determination of the final arrangement or settlement of a case following judgment."
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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