Sunday, October 30, 2011

Marrieds Vs Single


 Last year my brother in-law set up a tradition that all the men in the stake would have a rugby game.  He made it YSA VS Married.  Now last year we got a bit of a scare at the start but comfortably won in the end and these pictures were from that game.  However yesterday was not the same story.  The YSA came out firing and scored the first points.  We knew they meant business.  We were winning at one stage 17-19 but that YSA just kept firing.  The were up at one stage by 10 points with 10mins.  I used my motivation from the relentless cleaning that I had done that week and put it in my playing ability.  We were about 5 meters from the try line they ball starts to be passed my way.  One person receives it and draws in a man then passes to me.  I weigh up my options and print for the corner.  After doing a spectacular dive I put the ball down that brings us 5 points down.  I called it the 'motivational try', because it gave everyone the belief we could win it.  So by this time the time is winding down, we are exhausted and we are about 20m away from the try line, and we make a break and score the winning try and make it a draw, it was all up to the final kick.  We gave the responsibility to our bishop who was leaving to kick the winning goal, we knew time was up and before he kicked it we wanted us all to start cheering.  As we started the chant he boots it right between the posts and wins us the game.  We put the win down to our mental toughness because of the experience marriage brings and also to our wives for giving us our pass for the afternoon.  It was a game to be remembered.

2 comments:

Melissa said...

Great play by play.
I wish I was there.
Were any of the wives?
Sounds like a game not worth missing.
Good job marrieds.
I take guts to come back in the last 10 for 10.
Pity there's not pic's.
You should try and score some.

Llew said...

in a few weeks time it will change to 15 meters to the line and fending off the halfback... by christmas it will be running 50 meters bumping of the whole front row goosing the winger to fend off the fullback for the try.... lol