Thursday, May 15, 2008

Cobras 27 - 17 Spanners

After the Spanners won the toss and chose to run with the wind in the first half, who ever chooses to run with the wind in the first half on the Green Mile? First mistake. We kicked off into the strong North Wester which was completely unexpected as Weathermans Bugs report said that there would be no wind and a barmy evening condusive to Cobras rugby, this was not the case to be. The wind was fucking pumping.

Kick off went high into the darkness above the dim Green Mile lights only to be won back immediately by a Cobras forward. A couple of phases later and star centre Olly "the clown" Braithwaite went through a big gap just to be nagged by a desperate spanner metres short of the line. Cobras retained the ball nicely, and went through the hand out wide only to be intercepted on the Spanners 5m line with a break away from their French winger who went over to score under the poles pretty much untouched. Don't bother bout getting back behind the poles, let's just meet on the half way. 10 nil down as a penalty sails over from about the half way line, he could have taken it another 10m back with that fucking wind at his back. The Cobras were now up against it after dominating the opening stages of the game. Cobras hit back hard, with as mentioned above, star centre Ollly "the clown" Braithwaite going over. 10-7...fuck off wind. Seriously.

Not minutes later and another lose pass go intercepted by the howling wind for the French dude to go over for his second try, one feels that it was his gay gestures and celebrations to the crowd after both of his tries that ended up him leaving the field injured, no it wasn't a blood bin, he was off...no foul play.

17-7 down read the scoreboard on the Green Mile with the Cobras crowd having gone a bit silent. Understandable. The Cobras were not playing bad rugby, they scored two lucky tries and with the winger now off the field they couldn't possibly get ANOTHER fucking intercept could they? No, they couldn't. The Cobras bounced back...

Playing with the wind in the second half the Cobras knew they had to score early on, and that they did, was that The Clown again, couldn't be. Hat trick hero, hectic! 17-14. Game on. Wind increasing to 98 km/h. As Internal League games tend to go through dull phases in the second half due to okes being attacked by the bear etc. However this was not the case, as it was only a matter of time before the ref, if you can fucking call him that, got fucked up by all 30 players on the field. I'm not going to get into it, but basically he gave two yellow cards to two Cobras for god knows what. It is not often you get both teams, yes 30 guys, all swearing and telling the ref how shit he is. Usually one complains about him being biased or one sided, but last night he was just absolutely fucking shocking...that man should never ever blow another whistle in his life. He blew the game about 10 minutes short as it was only a matter of time before someone climbed into him, shame...prick.

That aside, Cobras showed a lot of heart and spirit to come back against a highly motivated spanners side from 17-7 down to scoring 19 unanswered points in the second half to take the victory 26-17, bonus point included which was fucking vital!

Another awesome changeroom session that went on for a fairly long time, with each song getting better and louder while each beer went down the throats of the thirsty Cobras men. Congratulations to Olly "The Clown" Braithwaite for walking home with the much sought after Cobragator Man of the Match award, a few humble words from the man once again highlighted how important team play is and that it has nothing to do about the individual, but rather the collective. Although still not our best, we getting there and great comeback to win with the bonus point.

Nadoes beat Ubumbo which means that in order for them to progress to Cup playoff's they HAVE to beat us. We all know they going to come out firing so start thinking about it, it is going to be huge.

Keep your eyes on the site for the build up to next week's all important clash!

Till then...
Oh so brave...

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