Sunday Morning, very windy and not the warmest day of the years so far but the team were playing Totnes at home and it wasn't raining. Last week it had been raining and the match was away in Plystock which is almost all the way to Plymouth and I hadn't bothered going. And guess what, for the first time they had won. The first 3 games had all been lost, mainly because the opposition had managed to pass the ball and we hadn't. But last week the ball had been passed from hand to hand and just like I had been saying all season, pass the ball and we will win.
Would we continue to pass and win this week? Six tries to nothing up at halftime. 34 points to nil. It should have been 42 nil but the player who normally kicks the conversions wasn't playing and no one else seemed happy taking the kicks. Anyway at this level of Rugby once a team gets 50 nil up the rules say the game n must end, no sense in kicking someone when they are that far down. There are those who think this rule is unfair, if your team is so good then let them win 100 to nil. But come on, these are two teams of eleven year olds, not Attila the Hun camped outside the walls of Rome. Anyway what we used to do when winning by a large margin was play a man down. Which is what happened and the game ended an almost respectable score in the end 34 to 14.
Second thing that happened on Sunday and long awaited was the BBC drama 'The Survivors'. This was a remake of a series made some years ago, the idea being a virus had killed just about everyone and the few who remained had to get by as best they could. It had a cult following when it first came out but this is not as good as the original, it seems to have taken the best bits and dumped them and then found a need to spin out the remaining scraps to try and put a story together. One twist, it would appear in this 2008 version the virus has been let loose deliberately. Is this a mad, or maybe not so mad scientist's ides of how to knock global warming on the head, get rid of the cause of global warming which isn't green house gas, it's what is producing the green house gas, that is the six billion of us. Reduce that number to half a million and green house gas will no longer be a problem. An extreme solution I agree but ........
3 comments:
Survivor .. the burning questions...
With almost everyone dead :
a) Who removed all the bodies?
b) Who parked all the cars nicely?
c) Who's doing the gardening?
Steve
That's just nit picking Steve. Bloody big nit picking though. That was the emptiest motorway I have ever seen, a couple of cars with bodies sprawled in them would have helped. The BBC are going all out on this theme, there is a remake of Day of the Triffids on it's way next year. Do the Beeb know something we don't?
A good action shot of the boys rugby Dave. - Dave
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