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Dead
Ants vs. Tawa Spartans:
Result - Dead Ants 19 Tawa Spartans
21
Tries
Mike 'Beast' Lees
Craig 'Quinny' Quin
Mike 'Maybelline' King
Conversion
Willy Biss
(Second Conversion?)
The first grading game of the season saw the Dead Ants travel out to
Tawa to play the Spartens at their home ground, conditions were hot and dry
with the opposition sizable.
Due to various events and commitments we did not have a
full squad and were serverly lacking for backs. Good to see
some of the forwards stand up and have a go out wide, very amusing to see big
Andy Maguiness at First Five and Gussy at Fullback. Oscar also had to pull on
the sandshoes (due to no boots) and had a run in the backs. The 'old fella'
still goes hard and was rewarded with a nice blood nose. Mike P also had a
few storming runs, on one occasion the opposition making a statement 'get him
down already'.....
The game got off to a good start for the Ants with us dominating the
set piece, especially the line outs. After about 3 minutes of play, we drove
from the middle of the line out and Mike "Beast" Lees dived over to
score.The next 10 minutes was dominated by forward exchanges - it was
great to see Aaron Lutton back at his best crashing it up and our new
propping colossus Henry steam rolling over 4 to 5 Spartans at a
time. Finally our lack of experience and pace out wide started to tell
a story we didnt want to hear, Tawa had a couple of guys who looked like they
could run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds and their full back had a step
to match Christian Cullen in his hey day. Over the next 50 minutes Tawa ran
in three tries, two from broken play (our mistakes) and one from set piece.
With 10 minutes to go the Ants realised they could also run, pass and
put the man in the gap. Quinny scored a sensational try near the touch line
after shrugging off 3 would be defenders (It must be the non smoking Craig).
Then Mike King scored from close to the line after another good piece of pressure
from the Ants. Our overseas bound lock Willy Biss had finally managed to
drag himself out of bed and stepped up to knock over the conversion. Final
score 21 - 19 to Tawa.
That night saw the Ants meet at the Cambridge and then head to
Chrispy and Willy Biss's flat on the Terrance for Willy's going away party.
It was all to much for some of us older fella's with Red Bull, Vodka,
Tequila shots along with gumboot skulls making us worse for wear. Very
pleasing to see all the lovely young ladies dressed up in barbie uniforms.
Even more impressive were the two blondes who were very enamored with each
other and I understand Chrispy has a great story about what they got caught
doing in his flat mates bedroom.
Looks like being a good season...........
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