Match Report Nadoes vs Moles

Stranger things have happened…

The year the Nadoes were formed Britney Spears shot to fame with ” Hit me baby one more time ”. The Conquering British Lions of 1974 used the call ” 99 ” to start an all out brawl, basically since our inception in 1999, I personally and I’m sure this goes for most of us, have never played in a weirder game than on Wednesday night against the Demented Moles. Perhaps it was the return of a League winning legend in Glen Mcleod Smith that added to a strange feeling.

With a top of the table clash and the kick off times getting mixed up, things started reassuringly well for the Nadoes. Minus a few legends and some part timers, The Iron Giant has apparently had to leave our shores for work related issues, although rumours have been rife it’s lady trouble. Jason Meerkat Elley who won this weeks ” Lady in Red ” was also missing, see his excuse in the Ladies column written by Maria Quayle. For all you ladies out there who enjoy this side of things be sure not to miss this weeks column, Stewy Fletchels takes you through step knitting and Parrot etiquette.
Back to the game: With the Nadoes running into a stiff south easter we held onto the ball through phases and created some telling breaks, Dwanye Viljoen making a number of these reminded us of his old school mate Marius Joubert. Repeated infringements and the odd turnover kept the score 0-0 until late in the first half when after an attacking line out the Nadoes took it through some phases and Dwanyne created a hole the Paarl Gym way, straight over someone. Quick ball was ready before some twit from the Moles popped up on the wrong side, a quick tap and go and Big Bad Brad Brown crashed over near the sticks. Anyone who has played at UCT over the years will know that playing into the wind and turning at half time 7-0 up is a very good effort.

The banter at half time was of points points points, and knowing how we had strung the phases together in the first half things seemed ominous for the score board guy. But being a bunch of SACS pooftahs they came to our ” Honk honk it’s the Donk ” Captain G and asked in their very best fag accents if we could have uncontested scrums. Donk being the pushover that he is, duly accepted, and with that the rolling juggernaut which has been the Nadoes scrum was nullified. A few pleasantries were exchanged about this topic during the game. I shot the Sheriff Shaun Kerry and his partner in crime The Great Dane, were very tweaked and had so much energy after the game they were seen carving it up in Billy’s later that night. The Sheriff took some young lady into custody, gave her a full going over and ended the evening with what seemed like a thorough tongue lashing. Poor girl I hope she made bail.
So the second half began and with more confusion due to some absolute sparklers from the ref, the Nadoes lost momentum and with that showed a lack of composure. The Moles struck early in the secong half with a very nice try from a set piece uncontested scrum, I put it that way cause with non contested scrums it is wierd. Anyway, so amazingly enough they somehow got the ball wide and scored round the outside. Sometimes you say well done, good try, but there are other times when you wonder how on earth did these guys score that try. Confident stuff again.

The Nadoes battled to keep things going and failure to keep the ball through phases meant we had to defend albeit from inside our opponents half. The Nadoes had began to put some phases together and were pressing on the Moles line when the ref blew the final whistle. Charles Sanderhoff with his gloves on to keep the winter chill away kept time and his stats provide strange reading, 17mins of play in the second half. Perhaps our Manager Gareth ” who comes first ” Wright should take his appointment more seriously—it’s a career and and an honour you prick. Nice to stand in the photos but when it’s time to earn your keep, he’s gone ! How Terrific Tanya handles this monster we all wonder.

The changeroom began in a rather sombre mood for a team the has maintained an unbeaten run with one more league game left. We had some special guests our resident Springbok Boom Boom Putters, Hugh Blayden aka Kriptinite, and one of our major backers in support terms The Koolcalm Keith, Nic Kotze. All of these fine upstanding gents took full part in the celebrations. Big Bad Brad got things going with an unprecedented treble and looked like “Side show Bob: with all the awards, never before has anyone collected all these prestigious awards. The joint leading try scorer Kingzo was heard muttering something about Bishops bribery (see you at the game ) Things really cracked off when Glen Mcleod Smith broke the shackles and popped his head in the door, having not seen this giant of the Nadoes past for quite some time there was’nt a dry eye in the house. Beer flowed like wine and the women flocked like the salmon of Capastrano. Till next week Ucha cha…