Emo2 15 – London Revolution 13

Rev cleaned up in the C tour at tour 1 and we knew that they wouldn’t be a walkover. We also knew though that they we’re short on legs and when we turned up and they had one sub any thoughts of losing went out of the window. A deep block and score by Muppet warmed us up to the B tour quite nicely and we quickly went to 4-1. We started to get complacent and not running hard on D and faffing deep on O meant that we began to trade for much of the match. At 13 a piece people realised that we had lost the plot and we couldn’t let this gift of a game go the other way. After a train ran through Maggers we quickly found our form and put the last two away comfortably.

Emo2 15 – Trigger Happy 9

A pretty uneventful start with both teams figuring each other out and putting points away when the D team left a gap. The only time a team really tried to play a zone against us in the gale force wind that was Saturday. A near pitch length hammer from Muppet soon put a stop to any of that nonsense. After the half both team stepped up their game, but unfortunately for Trigger Happy, we had a whole heap more steps than them. Ran away with it and got our only comfortable win of the weekend

Emo2 12 – Abstract 10

Pretty slow paced game as both teams were tired and had played each other at the last few tours. Drifted through the game always one or two points ahead where a lot of the oppositions point came from frustrated hucks which got pulled out of the air in our endzone far to much. Memorable would be Blacks point blocking one of their handlers only to chump it by letting the guy then catch it. To save face Blacks quickly pulled out another point block and we went on and scored the point. Went into the cap and when we we’re left on O, needing only one point for the win, we got bored of the game and decided a win would be nice. 25 or so passes from the pull later and we were in their endzone

Emo2 14 – BAF 15

A big name that had dropped down through the ranks and a great way to start a Sunday morning. O lines owned the first 15 or so points with neither D line able to put away a goal. We took solace in the fact that while we we’re getting great Ds, their only let off was when we threw some 90% passes and tried to force the score. We we’re the first to start converting our D points and took a narrow but threatening lead. At 13-10 we thought we had it in the bag which only spured BAF on. They took the game in sudden death and after 9 games undefeated we had to start the talk first. We were knocked out of the top 8 by a team which may have looked better on paper but could have beaten much earlier in the game.

Emo2 15 – Curve 12

We traded for much of the first half before we started to run away with it. Great D managed to cover for us when our O was a bit messy and a lot of their points came from misreads by our deeps and the odd lucky break. They started to claw it back but we already had the win in mind. A note for Nim Joe would be that point block Callahans are great but spiking it at the girls feet and screaming at her Terry Tate style aint gunna get you any love.

Emo2 15 – London Revolution 13

Start the weekend as you mean to finish it came into play early and at 4-1 up and with them down to 7 (including 1 very lazy) men we thought we were laughing. At this point Muppet had dropped out with injury and Bobby and Chris were walking on very painful legs. Rev were not finished though and put everything they had into every point which brought them back to one behind at the half. We pulled ourselves together to make the pitch time left count and took and handful more points straight from the half. Rev weren’t done though and clawed their way back to 13-10. Things began to get ugly towards the end but we dragged out the last few points in our favour.

Great work guys. Went from C tour to 9th in the B tour in the most nail biting fashion we could think of. Next time lets just beat BAF nice and early though yeah…
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Jordan