Okahu comp game 12 - O for Awesome

The final pool game! Against a team we'd yet to play and one we knew was good, we came in with 3 subs, the best turn-out in a long time! Alas we lost to these apparently awesome guys 6-4 in a contest that was tight for at least the first half.

We opened with a furious pace playing the game like cats fighting on a fence. As the ball clawed through hands from all ends of the field, defensive flyers were pouncing in from everywhere to maul isolated dummy-halves. After a few push and pulls both teams felt like they got to know each other and a swirl of tries started to flow - starting with us and evened up by then. Our memorable try was through Martin the winger who scorched their winger for a try that ripped fire-marks into the rain-washed field. Interestingly enough, he intuitively balanced it back by sleeping on his man and their winger took a floated pass on his turn to burn Martin back.

These guys played with a wave of backdoors - not too fast - but they still caught us napping at the corners too many times to score plenty of tries at the wing. Not only that, our saves were there to bash the receivers but we got there too slow. On attack we had our moments where we tore up the field with shrieks of rage but at other times we lacked the awareness to poach the gaping holes left by their sniping shooters.

Lesson to be learnt: Corners, mirrors, saves! Gotta get them right!