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With the joy of Christmas before us now, the Toucher's can look back on a solid start to the season. Victory last night in the last game of 2014 was built upon a solid defence. There was almost a full cast on the windy night at Narrabeen with only BBB and Dicko absent from the playing roster. It was in stark contrast to the previous week with just the bare bones left to take the field and achieve that hard fought victory. The Toucher's were never really in any danger of losing and went into the half time break for oranges up 4-1 on the Pepsi Jumbotron. Supercoach delivered a positive speech on the defensive structure that his colleagues should deliver in the second half. As usual nobody was listening, some things don't change. The VC sat so far away I doubt he could hear anyway. But I was close enough to the speedster to hear him mumble to himself "let the b@stards through, I'll chase em down" . All played well in the fixture. With 5 reserves, the bo...

This time last week I was preparing in my head a story around overcoming in the face of adversity and accepting the challenge when all is against you. Seven days ago the Touchers were not happy. Despite Dicko's urging across the park, the fire wasn't there, the interest in Touching wasn't there, the simple fact of wanting to be on the park wasn't there. I chose not to write that story last week for many reasons. Well last night once again the Toucher's had a wall to climb, a river to cross. With a heavy schedule at this time of the year and an expanding injury roster the Toucher's that could turn up and those who wanted to turn up looked at each other in the face and asked each other the question. At 710pm Tuesday the 9th of December 2014 the player status was as follows: Chairman - OUT Milt - OUT The Sponsor - OUT Jonty - OUT Bulldog - OUT Kiwi - OUT Lockmith - OUT Harro HOF - Retired to Stud Left standing were VC, Supercoach Bill, Rookie, ...