Overtouchers Corporation

The Touchers, like many champion people and sports teams do, did enough to win their 5th Grand Final in 5 appearances at the Belrose Touch Football Seniors competition last night. Going into Finals night, the Toucher's were minor premiers with that privilege came a smoother ride to start off the night. The 5 teams finals format made life extremely difficult for the other 4 teams.   Over the last 8 years, the Toucher's have blown teams off the field, they have played pretty. The high speed men, BBB, Bulldog, VC, Rocket and Locksmith would score runaway tries all throughout the regular season. But this season we played ugly and kept on winning. With ageing bodies but willing minds, the Touchers just found ways to win and there was no better example of this than last night. In the opening game for the Toucher's, the Major semi, were up against this years nemesis's. Drawing 3-3 in the regular season, this was the classic grudge match. The Toucher's stuck to ...

Now that its the 1st of December, so now I can talk about the upcoming festive season we call Christmas. Any mention of Christmas before December incurs a substantial fine in my world. I am sure all of the Touchers in the corporation have written a list of the goodies they want to see under the tree. But I will come back to that as governance dictates that I write at least a few words about the game last night. We drew 3-3 ... thats it. OH I have to write more ????  OKAY G Plummer and the Locksmith almost tied for Man of the Match. However, Locky lost half a point when he passed the pill 6 feet over my head while I was showing the VC how one runs into a gaping hole to get clear and hopefully score the match winning try. I am sure I jumped but its doubtful there was much air between my size 13 cross trainers and the turf at anytime. So with the loss of that half point G Plummer got the trophy last night. Even with the 3 reserves, all of us had nothing left in the tank ...