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Please find attached Drew's take on the clubbies trip to West Essendon to take on the Snow Dogs
Old Trinity Football Club had a nightmare weekend with the exception of the under 19s. Conceding 434 points and losing by a combined margin of 274 points the 1sts, 2nds and 3rds could be accused of thinking which colour flowers they were going to buy Mum rather than focussing on the football. The story was bleak out at the snake pit where the 3rds matched up with an undefeated Bernards outfit that simply loves their home turf. The skipper (two bunches of yellow and white chrysanthemums for his old lady) was out to make his 100th memorable. The game sure will stick in the memory, but for all the wrong reasons. Rather than write a detailed match review, as a tribute to the skipper who wears an old school size XXL number 9 jumper handed down by former Old Trinity Best and Fairest winner Adam Andrews (1997), I will give 9 famous, or more so infamous moments from the game.
- Coach Heaven, fresh from hosting some interstate colleagues on Thursday and Friday was not in the mood for late pull outs and no shows. The boys copped a nice verbal attack prior to kick off…the coach meant business.
- The trainer was left with a major surplus of tape. With only one Cade (Stu) in the team, tape and trainer time was dramatically freed. (a quick message to Tim Cade to get well soon and hopefully we’ll see him on the park again soon)
- Jay Arrowsmith has obviously left an impression on Club 18 football, the friendly umpire asked where the big guy was that kicks goals and has fair hair!! I quizzed him at first because I argued he should not have known that Jay had fair hair, he hasn’t had hair for 12 years.
- Big centre half forward Matt O slipped out to the bleachers at half time, obviously to collect his thoughts, take stock…and sneak in that quick smoke before the third quarter!
- Paul Langdon nailing 3 goals in the third quarter. The huge celebration that followed his snap around the corner was one for the archives. Langdon Jnr was swinging the arms around so fast he nearly took off.
- The 3rd quarter was a rare footballing highlight. We won a lot of the ball and won the quarter on the scoreboard too.
- After the game Hii-Man had the cheek to have a go at a red head. Little does Hii remember that in his very first game of Club 18 football against Marcellin, he was taunted for his Asian appearance, and his red headed teammate, (Drew H) went to his aid and was abused with the unfriendly jibe “you’ve got red hair”. Don’t forget Andy…red heads have been looking out for you for years!!
- I’m running out of highlights, clearly there weren’t many. The oranges at ¾ time were good. Not to sour and plenty of juice.
- The lollies after the game. Not only did I get plenty of enjoyment out of this, it shut my son up for at least 30 minutes.
Clearly our worst performance of the year and one we are keen to put behind us and move on. We go back home next week after recording 0-2 in out past two games away from the Hudson Oval. Hopefully the boys can regain the form that saw us topple Whitefriars and Caulfield by healthy margins. Will Brady a.k.a “The Blanket”, long term Club 18 stalwart plays his 100th this week. It would be nice to give him a win. The last known Club 18 victory in a milestone clash was versus Old Geelong when we gave Stuart Stockdale victory in his 250th. Let’s do it for Will too.
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