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Toucher's win again, but may pay a price

The great author, warrior, drinker and lover Ernest Hemingway once said: "Courage is grace...under pressure" Hello I am FMJ and I write to you from the Far North Queensland peninsula of this vast wide island once known as Van Diemans land. As I commence my journey back south of the tweed on the 'morrow, I have scavenged my sources to understand what happened last night. I have been trying to know why, how, who and what happened.  Answers are needed and to get those I sought out one of the 20th centuries great orators in Ernest to start tonight's report. Courage is truly defined as grace under pressure.  Pressure is what creates greatness.  A diamond is only created through 1000's tonnes of pressure, and the result is a sparkling rock that holds many sides and none look the same. How could the Toucher's go into a top of the table clash without key elements that make up the diamond that is the OVERTOUCHERS? After a last minute fitness test the ...

Touchers head back to the field

After 5 weeks without touching, the men are keen to get back to the fields of Narrabeen this fine evening. I'm FMJ and I am writing to you from 2,800 kilometres away at a reading of 16.9256S, 145.77563E where I am attending a touch football conference as the keynote speaker.  My speech brought rapturous applause as my topic was on the running plays of the great Touching team of 2010 and how they have improved with the guidance of key player recruiting. I also touched on some key winger defence lapses and how we overcame those. I went into great detail with PowerPoint presentations. I even ran a few impromptu plays with the crowd. You know...audience participation. That really got things going. I must say some of them picked up the outside back defensive techniques a little better than others !!!! But turning back to the northern beaches, tonight is all about courage under pressure with the Touchers needing to call on that inner grit as they will be down in nu...