After getting to the hostel at about 11pm on Friday night, we dropped off our stuff and immediately headed to the Ding Dong Lounge. A few dozen PBRs and two hours later we headed back to crash.
West Potomac traveled up to NYC with only 16 players but managed to put in a half decent showing on the field. Pretty much everyone made it to Randall's Island by 8:30 for our 9:30 kick off against Jersey Shore B; it was cold, windy, and dry all day long. JSB got on the board first and that seemed to knock some sense into us. The first try was a penalty try awarded to the Skip, flagrant dirt right in front of the posts. Shortly after we realized that neither of their wings or their fullback could catch anything, so we started putting pressure on with kicks and that lead to Ron getting the second try and finally Sharp got off the schneid with a beautiful score off "The Wall" on a penalty play. It was like lightning struck, Skittles went in completely untouched! Bible converted all three kicks. Final Score 21-5
Second game was against the Syracuse Chargers, they laid the wood on JSB after us, something like 38-0 so we knew we had a tough game coming up. The refereeing in the second game was horrible!! I think the flyhalf was the ref's illegitimate son or something, he was drawing high tackle penalties all game and there was also the matter of Syracuse's #8 just launching himself into a ruck. The most egregious call of the game was when MJ & I were driving a maul inside the five meter line and they just cut my legs out from under me, not only did the ref not call a penalty, he also gave Syracuse the ball! The final score of 25-0 doesn't really indicate how the game went, because in addition to the dreadful calls outlined above, the ref also didn't call two tries that we put down.
We missed out on the playoff round due to point differential, but that allowed us to watch a few games and then see the Beard whore himself out to a new team from Brooklyn.
2 comments:
You forgot about the great no call when their 8 man disengaged during a scrum and picked the ball up from the side of the scrum which led to a try. bastards
Like I said, the reffing was scandalously bad; it would be difficult to recount each and every call that ref screwed up.
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