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Posted - 08 January 2007 : 18:18:28
To catch up here are some brief match reports:
Lichfield 19 BEESTS 29
See report from Oldcorn under "Lichfield"
Mansfield 17 BEESTS20
I wasn't there so any chance of a report Jackal?
Nuneaton 36 BEESTS 11
The Beests headed off to Nuneaton for an important league game, not the ideal situation for the first match after Christmas. To make things worse the 1st team pinched The BEEESTIE BOSS, The BEEESTIE ASSISTANT BOSS, and having twigged that we have some skillful backs, pinched some of them too!
Any way we arrived in Nuneaton in the rain to learn that the pitch had pssed an inspection and that the kick-off had been bought forward by 15 minutes so tht the Nuneaton lads could see the end of their first team's League 2 game against Halifax.
It was never going to be a flowing game, and the best Derby break came in the first few minutes when Cresswell Coaches broke to feed Rob "Thak God It's My Dad's Birthday So He's Getting Pissed Somewhere Instead Of Being Rude To People On thhe Touch Line" Brown, who was brought down just inside the Nuneaton 22. Nuneaton then broke out to score (?) a converted try.
The Beests however, fought back well and Ian Van Der Tompsen landed two nice penalties to bring us back to 6 - 7 down.
Towards the end of the half Acting BEESTIE BOSS BATES twanged (technical term) his calf and had to limp off, being replacesd by Marten Van Der Dodds, Soon after Nuneaton scored 2 tries in a five minute period, both from unforced Beestie errors, so went in at 19-6 down.
The Second half started well for the Beests with a bit of BEESTIE BRAIN being applied and, following the sin binning of a Nuneaton player a good BEESTIE drive over the whitewash led to Simmo Van Der Lung coming up with the ball. the referee awarded the try.
Unfortunately the rest of the game was marred by injuries and a catalogue of unforced errors from the Beests. A mix-up over a call forom a kick led directly to another Nuneaton try, and then some Lemming-like decision making gave the ball away, and Nuneaton pounced to score again.
Cresswell coaches retired hurt with a damaged Knee, Hutch came off after spraining a wrist, to be replaced by The Prodigal son and The Canadian Wanderer.
Sanjay, who had not seen the ball all day was replaced by The Earl of Lichfield, who was also not to see the ball. Ah, great position wing, when it's raining.
Ben van der Smat and Ben van Der Crumb, were by this time limping around the park, but we had run out of replacements, and Nuneaton ran in 2 more tries for a well desrved win.
Final Score Nuneaton 36, Beests 11
It was not the best day for playing rugby, but despite the injuries and a few missing personnel we should have done better: too many unforced errors, and some poor decision making cost us dearly. Nuneaton were probably not that much better than us, but the played to the conditions and took their chances. We didn't.
(Squad: Mad Van Dag 1, His Highness The Maharajah, Mad van Dag 2, Dave Danson, Rob "My Dad......." Brown, Jan Van Der Tompsen, Woody Van Der Woody, Door Matt, Van Der Lung, Ben Van Der Crumb, Mick Van der Mountain, Goody ThreeShoes, Fireman Van Der Sam, Cresswell Coaches, More Van Der Moore, The Prodigal Son, The Wandering Canadian, Van Der Dodds and The Earl of Lichfield)
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