For the first game back after the break, half our team was left behind in our Asian motherlands, so we played this out with no subs whilst this other team had five subs but we came away with a draw in a game that was really ours to win. In many sporting draws, it salvages a bit of pride for both teams. For them, they were 3-0 down and we slowly got tired and they caught up using their sub boxes to even the score by the end of the game. For us it was a slog-fest, playing in hot conditions with no subs right after our holidays.
The nature of this game was bullshit really. I know I whinge about the ref alot, but these fellas got away with all the disciplinary stuff - she warned them countless times about shoving in the rucks, clearing the rucks, but we rarely scored a penalty from all that. They got touched as dummy half a few times too and got away with those. And at every turnover they threw the ball away, and played the game with a barrage of swear words. Its tempting to quote a cricket captain in saying that "only one team was playing in the spirit of the game". In truth, we got away with our bits too, Kerhan returned to his angle-plant-sideways clown acts...
Dean opened our account with two of the type of tries he always gets: flat-footed ball turned to solo effort from brilliant footwork. Later, to show that we could work as a team, Nick, Chris and Sean teamed up to let Sean waltz in for a try. A few tries went begging, but we lacked both skill and energy to finish them off.
Our defence then went placid... allowing them in for tries which weren't flukey, but should have been prevented.
Lesson to be learnt: Stay tough for the entire game.
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