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Round 12 - Wet and Wild...!!*

 ^{‘Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.’ Confucius
‘Bad weather always looks worse through a window.’ Tom Lehrer
‘Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.’ Mark Twain}
_{History repeating itself is always a worry if that history ain’t too good, and as I pulled into exactly the same car spot on Sunday last, and the weather threatened in exactly the same way, it did have a hint of the ol' de-ja-vu about it.}

_{The Brighton Beach Club was a’wash with a holiday atmosphere – jumping castle (pronounced caaaar-sell), loud music and a BBQ. The toilets had been cleaned, and our cruise director – Captain Danny the Brighton TM – was in the house. A more jovial and pragmatic fella you’d travel a long way to meet. He makes junior footy very pleasant, even in bad weather.}

_{My wife was at the game too, which was nice. I had missed her.}

_{The centre square looked much like the playing arena for the high quality sports event I attended the previous evening with Matt and Brett at the Dandenong Workers Club – featuring Misty Main versus The She-Bear as the main event.  No holds barred.}

_{We’d strategized (Thanks Survivor) but not come up with many answers to the highly drilled and silky skilled, spare-man-in-defence, juggernaut that Brighton has proved to be this year.   To no avail.   We retreated to the comfort of “get the footy, etc, etc”.}

_{We came off the first quarter feeling very good about ourselves, restricting them to 3-1 to our …..zero.   But we did  look threatening at times. Those times when the pill was in the hands of young Jack “Mouthgaurd” Hardeman, or when he was passing it to Jakey “Balls” Beames. I did note with a little pride that JH gave BB young gun #13 a good solid shove to cease and desist with the tagging and niggling, which worked a treat. The BB 19th and 20th players (waterboy and the ‘official photographer’) had to be harassed off the field by your correspondent, as they were playing far too much part in the game.   As if they needed any help?  It gave me something to do.}

_{Into the second and again it was all Hardeman, ably assisted by Special Sauce Hesline, who was noted post game to be ‘not afraid to get muddy’. Equally laudable were Louis “Tram Tracks” Hanson and his partner in crime, Will “Chuckles” Skinner, who transitioned the ball to the inimitable Plugger Barden whose desperation got the better of him in the face of goal. But the BB defense held strong and we didn’t have the answers to the questions they posed.}

_{Umbrellas were everywhere in the 3rd, which was kind of good, as they protected the identities of the screeching banshees who were lookin’ for a lynchin’ down near the MB dug out. The 21st player for BB was getting heaps of stats, which was killing us slowly with death by a thousand cuts. But we had reduced their capacity with the wind and taken a big chunk out of their first quarter revelry. One highlight was a shoulder ride and punch from Walter “Up and away” Delahunty in defence.  He reminded Matt post-game of his efforts...twice, I think.} 

_{The fourth was a hard quarter to watch – because of the rain, and the inability to distinguish who was who. The mud had done its job and the match became like an Omo ad on acid as our little men put on weight as we watched. The frustration of some mothers grew and grew, eventually spilling over in anguished cries of ‘No!!!” and “What???” and “You are KIDDING!!” as the enormity of the washing job ahead dawned on them.  Well, that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.  I heard a call from the boundary that, "There's two teams out there!!".  No doubt this was offered rethorically.}

_{In this age of metrics and business outcomes, stats and figures, let the record show we bettered our previous performance by more than 50 % against the silverspooners, and under a cold forensic light had plenty of the footy for plenty of the game. We were tested, but equally, we tested – so much so that the BB coach gave their boys a well deserved roasting at half time for being so far ahead.}   

_{Very hospitably indeed were the Beach Boys, giving Plugger and Beamesy best opposition awards for the day and a sausage and drink for all the boys.}

* inspiration for this wrap courtesy of seasons' end delerium

_^Highlights:

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MBJFC  0-1-1 were comfortably met by Brighton Beach 5-11-41

Goals:   nup