Percy Park Penguins 33 - 15 Seghill Deputies
Well , even though the bodies are aching today the pain is worth it . The Penguins defeated Seghill Deputies 33-15 to progress to the final on April 2 . The scoreline suggests a comfortable victory but that is not the case . Seghill tore into Park from the start , it was evident that they were the side playing more often with the Penguins expecting a comfortable afternoon like they had experienced in their comeback game against West End , so it was no surprise that the Hill then took an early lead with a penalty under the posts as Park struggled to come to terms with their opponents physical start .The Penguins gradually started to find their feet as Hill seemed to run out of puff from their energetic start . Park were starting to put together a few phases forcing Hill into conceding penalties , this allowed Park a few breathers as they kicked into the opposition half . The Penguins were now nicely warmed up and were starting to dominate . Support play was remarkably the key . Unfortunately though our bodies cant do what our mind wants us to do , Giles was shot by the snipper and off he hobbled to the balcony . Park reshuffled but still dominated . Thorpe and Helme (x2) crossed the line and Park led 19-6 at the break .
In their last game the Penguins had been rejeuvenated by their half time snacks of energy drinks and jelly babies as the vets embraced modern thinking , but their snacks had been scoffed by the kids of Yates , Jackson , Snowdon , Rusby and Charlton . Deflated by this theft Park allowed Hill to start like they had in the first half . Again though they soon ran out of steam . Ash Parks youngest player was next to leave the field to replaced by Rusby, who had turned up to be water boy , resplendent in this strippy pink and white socks . Press-ganged Baskerville was also starting to pull the strings . Baskerville then scored from that move . Yep , that one . Its like a Casey sidestep , you know its coming but the opposition just cant do anything about it . Even though he is considerably larger than he was when in his prime , hes still a class act and the greedy so and so then added a second . Now , this is where old age really shows , the ref had the score down as 33-15 . We reckon we definitely scored the trys mentioned which makes 25 and Gary (was he really playing ) Davey also scored , so by my calculations that makes 3 points spare but we never kicked a penalty . So we are happy to say that we scored 5 trys and Turner knocked over 4 conversions therefore Davey didnt score .
So one more game to go , chat in the bar afterwards was of training and of taking on the world . We are gratefull that the Lions are going to provide the pre-mtch entertainment on final day as they ko @ 2 with the showpiece @ 4 .
Brack , Ash , BJ , Helme , Mcdine (capt) !! , Snowdon , Thorpe , Jobson , Cook , Baskerville , Cherry , Turner T , Giles , Davey , Singleton , Yates , Charlton , Don , Rusby .