Unidare
3 Lansdowne 42, DCU Sports Complex. 11/10/2008
A
WINNING START
As
the crowd shuffled through the stadium turnstiles there was a palpable
essence in the air... Was it deepheat? Or maybe it was coach Dolans
sweaty polyester t-shirt? Could it be assistant junior sub-manager Frank
Kennys Rothmans? No...... It was the air of anticipation. What was to
come? The hours, days and weeks of preseason weight training, ice baths
and steroid intake would be put to the sword at last.
Unidare, as I'm sure all readers are aware, are made up primarily from
members of the greek kebab makers and slovakian shoemakers fraternity
mixed with some random students to translate, and were ready to rumble!
Alas, rumble turned out to be close to their top speed...
Nonetheless, the killer b's swept aside all in their path with a vibrancy
that has not been seen since Frank Kenny himself graced the paddock.
Pressure makes makes mistakes makes points is the rugby way, and this
was shown in Niall ohulahula's (Healy) try from a fumble at the back
of a unidare scrum, as well as Conor "snakehips" Gahan testing,
again and again, a porous defence. Bollocking runs from Michael "oneball"
O'Sullivan and Paul "stump" Harvey compounded pressure, with
the slinky skills of Eoin "yes, I am a back" Gantly and Conor
"cheeky chappie" O'Sullivan at the helm, the result soon became
a mere stastic. The b's were reaching for rugby nirvana. Alas, there
were moments of lunacy, one too many gentlemen forgetting that they
were no longer facing a wobbly bottomed hockey player in wednesday night
tag rugby, but a wobbly bellied Unidare prop in the finest league in
the land.
Tries came, most of them opportunistic, my own personal favourite was
Dan "farr-jones" O'Brien who took a lovely inside line to
sneak over for his second, just as the lustre was waning from the overall
performance.
Barnstorming performances from Andy "mines a sandemans" Fleming
and Chris "meatloaf" Reid in the forwards, along with Ross
"roshty aye" Bloomfield and Tommy "nearly dropped it"
Malone in the ladies section completing a quality team performance which
one and all played their part. Gants is now 1/1 on the drop goal chart,
which signalled the final whistle followed by a one man pitch invasion
by coach Smithy, clearly still drunk from the night before, and scenes
of jubilation unsurpassed the likes of which has not been seen since
San Marino stuck it in the english net after 47 seconds.
Job done, we retired to some odd northside kip chosen by Smithy, again
clearly still drunk!
My fear is this: Old Wesley are NOT Unidare, they are a whole different
ball game, so
lads: heal quickly, train hard, and put yesterday in the rearview mirror.
Onwards and upwards.
Man
of the match: Michael "oneball" O'Sullivan.
written
by Philip McGoldrick
Team
1:
Chris Reid (c)2: Peter Geoghegan 3: Enda Kilcullen 4: Paul Harvey 5:
Andy Fleming 6: Niall O'Healaithe 7: Conor Gahan 8: Adam Kavanagh 9:
Conor O'Sullivan 10: Eoin Gantly 11: Will Sparks 12: Michael O'Sullivan
13: Ross Bloomfield 14: Ronan Gibney 15:Tommy Malone Subs: Jeff Iszeham,
Rory Gavin, Daniel O'Brian
Match
photos below - (taken by Ed Bruce)
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