Grimsby Gentlemen: 5: Kent Havoc 48
Venue: Victoria Park in Chatham: It was Kent's family day and this was not a pool as hoped but a bouncy place.
Referee: Mark Glendan (again)
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| Even the ref needed physio help. . |
Weather: At 1:30 it was a warmish 33 degrees Celsius and by 3:00 it was 34.4 degrees with 99% humidity. A nice game to remember as being over.
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| A beard is nice to have (in the winter) |
Attendance: Me (with my new camera) and Sam's dad..
Team: 1. Ross Matheson, 2. Brandan Sculland, 3. Jon Millington, 4. Dirk Reichow 5. Bob Mavro, 6. Duncan Earl, 7. James Vinneau 8. Drew Redmond, 9. Nick Lemieux, 10. Jake D'Achille, 11. Sam McGee (back from a shoulder operation) , 12. Vic Blaney 13. Heri Lewssoh, 14. Austin Marck, 15. Jamie Farrell, 16 & 17 Brendan and Zach (two players lent to us by Kent as needed subs.
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| Brendan and Zach: first games with Grimsby |
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| Sam's back (actually front) |
Game:
After a slow warm up due to the weather the game got going but it was a slog for both sides. Dent scored at about 7 minutes and again at 14 but we did give some push back and after some good attacks on the Kent line, Jake made a break and was held up near the goal but managed to offload to Brendan for our only score of the game.
Half time Grimsby Gentlemen 5: Kent Havoc 28.
Second half was more keeping going that really being able to challenge. A few came off with heat problems and injuries (and came back on again).
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| Jake eluding a couple of Havocs |
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| Brendan on his way to scoring. |
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| Duncan on a rumble. |
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| Then its Heri's turn. |
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| Austin tries to find shade wherever he can |
Thankfully it eventually ended and back to the excitement of the Saturday afternoon meat raffle at the Chatham Legion (cheap beer - great fish and chips).
Kent selected our 10 (Jake) as man of the match - I think we selected their 10.
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| Jake showing that a year of university was not wasted. |
Went to the Pan-am sevens tournament last weekend and the Canadian women rocked. The men, although they eventually won the gold, should have not make it out of the quarter finals in the morning against Chili.
Chili played really well and scored with a minute left in the game to go up 7 points. Canada was trying to score when the hooter sounded and then Chili self-destructed. Two players went offside on purpose and got yellows and then Canada knocked on. Should be game over as all Chili needs to do is get some sort of whistle but instead the Chilean player picks up the ball and runs for the Canadian goal (ref plays advantage), then when challenged he tries to kick down the field. The ball stops in the Canadian in-goal where Canada picks it up and runs it back (seven against five) to score (two and a half minutes of extra time) , convert and win in overtime. If it had been soccer they would have had a commission to figure out why that happened.
I don't know why CBC did not show the finals after all they showed the entire women's beach volleyball quarter final which took more time than 20 minutes (or so someone told me).
Tats of the team (2015) .
Guess who.
Freddy Sayers who is an Englishman., married to a Grimsby girl, and who works in Yemem or Oman or somewhere over there and bought 5 tickets to the Texas mickey bottle of rum we were raffling to support Erick who was making a trip to train with the Huddersfield Giants Rugby League team in England and won the bottle. Freddy is seen here visiting the clubhouse last week to accept his bottle and to donate it back to the club (we have been using this bottle for about twenty years). Thank you very much Freddy for the donation to the cause and the bottle.(Freddy had just gotten back from a trip to Cuba and rum was not his drink of choice at the time).
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| Freddy Sayers |
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