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Slava - MD : 48 - 5 / Oct 3rd 2009 |
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Sunday, 04 October 2009 00:00 |
October 3rd – Nauka Stadium – Championship
Temperature: +7.3 C
Slava - MD: 48 - 5 (ht: 24 - 0)
MD: 1 Try (56’ Anton)
Slava: 8 tries – 4 conversions
Team: Kostya, Roman, big boy – Albertus, Eric – Vitaly, Antokhin, Rob – Johnny (s-h) – Valera (f-h) – Dima, Tyson, Sasha, Piotr (sic!) – Anton
Subs: Valentin
Photographer without camera but with his bird: Joe Devine
Journalist - Assistant coach with 1 shoulder but a big voice: Damien
As you can read from the team sheet, the Dragons arrived on the field with limited ambitions as quite a few unusual positions were filled in by non-specialists. Thanks to them for accepting to play there and fight pretty well. I am wondering why the SA boys disappeared (although Albertus was there so…)
Anyway the Dragons started well, managing to stay the first 10 minutes into Slava’s 40 meters until they decided to run the ball and we decided to play touch. 2 tries in a row to calm the energy. Despite the fat bastard of Slava’s front row being expelled for 5 minutes by the ref (the ref pretending that because halves were reduced by 5 minutes each, thus the sin bin should also be reduced by 5 minutes… a logic that was vocally argued without success…), the Dragons had their tough defense crushed 2 more times in the first half.
No changes in the Dragons team at half time and the unbelievable occurred, Tyson intercepted a pass and had only 70 meters to run for scoring. But, and yes you will find that unbelievable, that slimy winger of Slava managed to catch him 3 meters from the line… Flanders vets tour is what is left for old Tyson!
So, when Tyson cannot score a fast try, we have Tony Bell to take care of it following a lineout won, he took the ball midfield and ran all the way through a forest of Slava players to score THE Dragons try of the day.
The end of the match was more hectic and Slava scored 3 more tries in the last 6 minutes before the ref decided to end the match. Worth noting that during these 6 minutes, Slava’s flanker was also sin binned for 10 minutes this time as the ref finally conceded that his first half logic was challengeable (my lobby efforts paid off…)
Dragon of the Day: Dima the count for an impressive defense and consistent efforts on his wing
Dog of the day: Johnny for regularly emptying his stomach on the side of the field following a friday party that he described as a “good evening” |
