After a Storming start to the season (29 points from 2 matches) the 10th league felt Bullish about their Super 14 chances for week 3 at home vs.. Edenvale. Surely the home court, travelling required from opponents, altitude, very strong team on paper and all those things will be to the home teams advantage!
So 1st up at 4 was myself (Mario) against a guy (Joe) that I immediately thought how am I ever get the ball past this oak! So ended up playing a couple of decent drops and running him around and went up 2-0. So early in the 3 the dreaded F word entered my mind... Yes, Fitness I battled in the 3rd and lost it and at 8-8 all in the 4th I thought it was lights out but fortunately my opponent was starting to breathe harder than I and managed to pull it through in the 4th.
On next was our lefty Paul at 2 standing in for our other lefty Gabrielle, whose injury required a bit of rest, against Theo who wasn't sure if he was playing 2, so my guess was probably a regular 1 dropped to 2 to bolster their team. Me was rights as Paul soon found out that this oak seem to be at the end of every single good shot Paul played and managed in the end to frustrate Paul tremendously leading to more mistakes and a 0-3 loss. (OK so not a 16 pointer on the cards - but lets not be too greedy!)
Phil Piper, another stand in, played at 1 and steadily overcame Toby with consistent squash and good running to deservedly outplay a tiring Toby, handing Chambers another 3-0 victory.
So al we needed was at least 1 game in the final match as we looked ok in the points section. Nusrah played a very decent no. 3 (Mark) who managed a couple of very decent fetches and some neat angles - fortunately Nusrah started working them out and worked Mark over taking a hard but deserving 3-0 victory.
The 10th thus managed to hold onto their unbeaten record against a very good side taking the match 12 - 4. Go the 10th!
Final result :12 - 4
