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Nerve Gas
'on the bench'
Iraq
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 Posted - 25 February 2007 : 17:41:18
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The Beests returned to the lush wet green Serengeti for an NCA Merit table clash with Nuneaton: They expected it to be tough, and they wern't wrong!
&^%$(the player previously known as Dave Danson) kicked-off and the ball failed to go 10 meters, even at 4 meters, it was the furthest the ball was to get into the Nuns half for the next half an hour. Nuneaton won the resulting scrum, and entered the Beests half, spreading the ball wide and looking dangerous. From a ruck they spun the ball left, &^%$ (the player previously known as Dan Daveson) nailed his man, Van Robotson flattened his, The Wizard sheperded his across the field till he passed the ball into touch.
After some brief Beesty posession, the ball was regained by Nuneaton who launched another attack, again to the left, this time with a 2 man overlap the centre decided to go it alone, and was somewhat suprised to be knocked down by Moltonlava who was half his size.
10 minutes of pressure and no points.
The Nuns forwards decided that it was their turn and tried maul after maul, but stout, well organised D from the pack, with Skint Skippy leading from the front, prevented any break through.
20 minutes of pressure and no points.
Continuing attacks on the herd pressurised the Beests in to giving away several penalties, and &^%$ ( the player previously known as someone else), was sent to the bin for infringing in the ruck. Nuneaton gave up the chance of 3 points on several occasions to go for the try. Eventually the pressure was bound to tell, and when the defence was sucked into a maul, a Nuneaton forward peeled away to run in unoposed from 10 yards. The conversion was added.
From the kick-off the ball again failed to go the distance and the Beests were back on the defensive again. Some more massive hits from van Robotson and Mooronthanoff kept the Nuns out and sudenly up the middle of the park, like a SCREAMING BANSHEE sprinted Dancing Pete, he was brought down on the opposition 22, and resulting ball had the Beests on the attack for the first time. A couple of promising moves later and the game came to a halt with a serious injury to Door Mat: he had dislocated his knee. The ref decided to blow for half time, and both teams went in.
Half time lasted for half an hour as Door Mat could not be moved, and we had to wait for the ambulance. This weeks guest lecturer was Dr. Ahmed Dosh, giving a paper entitled "The return of private equity buy-outs and their effects on pension funds". He wasn't very interesting so Twoshoes and Man Mountain beat the s**t out of him.
The second half got underway with Macrame taking over from the injured Door Mat. Again the Beests soaked up the pressure, and again Nuneaton were unable to put points on the board.
Skint Skippy received a blow to his elbow and was unable to continue: Pawpaw moved in to the second row Cresswell Coaches roared off the bench, and proceeded to inject some pace into our efforts. Nick van der Crumb was replaced by The Jackal, who was almost immediately sent to the bin for a bit of handbagging on a prone member of the opposition. (Not "..for a bit of handbagging on one of the opposition's prone member" !!)
The Beests were however starting to get back into the game; the scrum and lineout were going well and some usefull mauls were developing: we just could not get quick ball to unleash S van Bend and Moltonlava.
An unfortunate mix up at this juncture, was pounced upon by Nuns, and they sped away to score on the right. This time they could not add the 2 points.
12 - 0 down with ten minutes to go.
From the kick off the Beests launched an attack and several phases later play had reached the Nuns line, a maul was driven over, and the ref judged that the ball had been held up. 5 meter scrum to the Beests. Macrame and Master Bates (combined age 471) were drooling
And then a miracle occured: One of the Nuns front row was struck by a bolt of lightening, amazing even during a thunderstorm, but absolutely bizarre on a clear evening with no reindeer in sight. The Beests on the attack, five meters out with the put-in, and scrums having to go uncontested. (Of all the darned bad luck old chap).
From the resulting scrum the Jackal passed the ball to &^%$ (the player previously....), who flipped out a pass to Van Robotson who hit the line at real pace, blasting the opposition aside and crossing the whitewash for a very well deserved score.
&^%$ realising that there was still enough time for another score took a drop for the conversion and the ball just scraped over the bar: 12 - 7 with 1 minute to go.
However from the kick off Nuneaton soon regained possesion and drilled the ball off the pitc: game over
Beests 7 - 12 Nuneaton
A quite awsome defensive display from the Beests against a very strong Nuneaton side. A game that showed us what we can do if we keep our shape and don't have our usual siesta. Two lapses of concentration were immediately pounced on and punished by the opposition, but the performance as a whole was immense: one of those rare occasions when the losing team were happier than the winning one.
A big vote of thanks to the Nuneaton Physio for looking after Door Mat.
(Squad: Mad Dog 2, Moltonlava, The Welsh Wizard, Van Robotson, Van der Bend, &^%$, Van Crumb, Master Bates, Dancing Pete, Door Mat, Skint Skippy, Man Mountain, Mooronthanoff, Pawpaw, Threeshoes, Macrame, The Jackal and Cresswell Coaches)
It wasn't me
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Edited by - Nerve Gas on 25 February 2007 17:51:17 |
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BEESTS 7 - 12 NUNEATON
