Another night at the office

 

Grizzlies were down to 8 again this week with Ned off renting her house, Cheesey on a magical mystery bike ride, Lynchy chasing bouys around the Southern ocean and Big Knob staying home for a mental health night. This left room for Floppsy to make his much anticipated return to the pool. The line up was

Green Togs, Max, Killa and Martian

Floppsy, Gaffers, Scotty and Crusty

Got into the water not taking anything for granted. D grade teams these days can be stacked with state junior players and while they may be small, they're fast and skillful, a bit like Gaffers only skillful and fast. In the end though that was all they were. Their team play was AWOL and they didn't have any strength on the puck. They did manage to stack their defence and getting to the goals was a battle. Their biggest bonus was being able to play an extra two players in the water with red hats and orange gloves. We got an absolute pasting from them. Gaffers and Max got hammered for continuous gloving while Martian kept getting called for obstruction, even when he seemed to have the puck on the end of his stick. Nevertheless we still managed to pull a decent game together. Maddie got a swag of goals as did Martian, Max got one off a free puck of theirs and managed to swim it into their goal as well as cherry picking one of Scotty in Cheesey's absence.

With Maddie's Dad taking her home after the pool inspite of our invitations to join us we headed off to the pub. Service was getting even worse until Martian found a corner of the bar with two barmaids working so we settled in for the evening. With the Football on the telly, Floppsy buying jugs and Martian way laying the bar staff with the food on it's way to the rest of the pub we had a brilliant night. Could only have been better if there'd been tazos in the chips and Cheesey could have been there to enjoy it with us.