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OFSAA: Part two of Three.

  • Jun. 28th, 2009 at 6:40 PM

PART THREEEE CONTINUED

SO!
Now that we all have fake beards and such, it was time to get ready for our final game. Obviously we weren't going to take it seriously. We were even joking around during practice. Fred doesn't usually allow it, but he decided to relax a little. On the way over, we saw an Ofsaa official, that Whately almost decapitated with a clip-board, during our first game with the Grapes.
The official gave our team a kind of "Wtf.." look and said sarcastically to Whately. "Nice moustache". So, Whately points and him and gives him the stereotypical frenchman laugh. "Ohhoh!"
Oh yes. The decapitating. What happend was that Whately was getting a little pissed off about how we were playing. So he whipped his clip board down and it bounced off of the bench, just narrowly missing the officials head.
Everybody on the sidelines was amazed that we weren't punished for it in some way. Yeah... The officials didn't really like us very much after that.

Anyhow, (back to our last game.) we walked to the feild and dropped our stuff for a bit because, yet again the feild was still being used. We saw this gnarley hole in the ground filled with the grossest water I have ever seen.
Sophia pipes up and says "Alright rookies! Since we didn't have an initiation for you guys, you all have to drink from this puddle! Five bucks for the first rookie who actually does it!" Of course, she was joking. Psht, none of us did it.
IT WAS SOOOO HAWT OUT, that during our practice, our mustaches started to come off. ;-;
Of course, we drew them back on. Crazy nutters. >.>;

Kelly had given herself a Toothbrush moustache, better known as the Hitler Stache'. She had to give herself something else because we didn't want to make the officials even angrier. Hahaha. Especially after we were doing our dynamic stretches. We do this thing called Frankenstiens, which is basically the Hitler walk with extra high kicks. Rofls, oh gawds.
Whately was doing our tackling excersizes with us and we got to ruck him over pretty good. We all thought Sophia died when he landed on her. She kind of hurt her collar bone, but she got up and was fine after stretching.
THE TEAM COULD BREATH AGAIN!
It is official that Kim and I are the two most powerful on the team when it comes to take downs and tackles. Whately is pretty big and we can both knock him over, easily. Okay, so the other team shows up and they haven't seen us yet, all the rookies get sent in for the first half of the match and  most of the vets are

kept off.
I would have to say this was the funnest game in all of OFSAA.
At the start of the match, they were calling out their players.
"I've got the tall chick!"
"I've got Blondie!"
"I've got Moustache!" <--- Erm.. Which one, you adorable monkey? >w>
The entire field bursts out in giggles.

Okay, so in the half I played, the rookies really stepped it up. This was our last game and we wanted to show that we can play as well as any other team. We held up the plays, made strong rucks and tackles. Our scrums were a bit facked up, due to the fact that Fred had an idea to send three of the biggest and strongest forwards into the scrum together, without us ever having the experience. I was so used to being with Amy that this change was a little harder to adjust too.
Not going to lie, our scrums were kind of sloppy and uneven. O'hara had never played as hooker before. She was always Loosehead.
Kim was Tighthead and I was Loosehead this time.
The awesome thing about our scrum though was that the other team was effing teffified and amused at the same time. They took line-outs whenever possible. Infact, I think we only had three scrums in the first half.
This team was terrible at passing. At one point, Sophia was stopped dead in her tracks because she was laughing at the way somebody on the other team had thrown the ball. She meant to throw it forward but it went straight into the sky and the play had to be stopped because the ref didn't want an unfair advantage.
Second half rolls around and all the rookies whose positions could be taken over by a senior, were kicked to the sidelines, watching and cheering for our Vets. <3

Whately and Fred took the time to say some things to us rookies.
Fred is kind of awkard about these things and doesn't like to beat around the bush, he came out and said that he wanted me to play for the Indians. To me, this was a great honor, but I need to get a few things out of the way before I go off and join another team. Schedual conflicts for the new school year, things like that.

Whately, since he was going to be leaving and wont be back until after I graduate, took his time and said a lot to me. He, like Fred, really wants me to stick with rugby. He told me that I run with a lot of power and if I had joined the Indians, he wants me to work more on speed. Whately said that I'm abnormally fast for a forward and lots of people wouldn't expect that, so next year, when I join the team, I will become the new Big Mamma.
I laughed to myself when he told me that. He just smiled at me and told me to go grab the water bottles because there was a penalty kick.

There was only like, a bottle and a half left. The girls weren't too happy about that. But oh well.
Bridgette went in for a kick after I was on the sidelines again. It was the most beautiful kick I've ever seeeeeeeeeeen. It was lifted easily off the ground, spiraling into the sky, slowly arching down to the middle of the posts and then the moment was destroyed, as the ball landed and bounced off the posts. We were all in awe for the first part, right until we here thepainful "Pink" sound of the ball making a painful collision.

Not even moments later, Bridgette had gotten pulled onto the sidelines due to an offside tackle that caused her to injure her knee. Again. Fack.
Then, Byranna B got pulled off as well and had to go to the hospital. She had also injured her knee. But she had to go to the hospital for it.
Gah, I was like the nurse on the sidelines. Making sure that Brianna P and Bryanna B were both sitting comfortably and that Bridgette wasn't being bothered too much by the others.
The match had come to an end, it was pretty close though. They had won, but I think we had two tries on them. Whatever, they only were above us by one kick.

The game was over and we were all being really emotional. It was the last time we would play together. The Rugby family was going to be broken apart due to all the graduates on the team. A new one was going to be formed next year but, it just wouldn't be the same. We had all gotten to know each other and share these memories together. I guess we'll just have to do it again next year with the newer crew. We're going to train hard to keep our status as the top team in Ottawa.
 

OFSAA: Part Three

  • Jun. 26th, 2009 at 9:13 PM

Moar: I'm soooo sorry.

We had two games today and the weather had improved a pretty great deal. It was a little chilly in the morning, but after our warm ups and dynamic stretching exceriszes, we couldn't be bothered with the temperature. I don't know what the hell happend that day but our practice was a little sloppy. Our game, we picked it up a bit, but it wasn't enough to win. There were two injuries. B.Powell had a neck injury and blamed Bailey for it. She was just frustrated that should couldn't play. It's not Bailey's fault that Powell wasn't in tight enough. =/
Anyway. Powell got off and I got pulled off in the last fifteen minutes of the game. It was a possible spinal injury for me, because when I hit the ground all I heard was a loud snap and pain followed afterwards. We still don't know what it was that happend. I had gotten injured in two places. My back and my ankle. When I had been pulled off, my ankle had really started to bother me. So I took off my cleets and socks and noticed that it was roughly around the same size as a baseball. I didn't bother to tell Fred or Whately though.

Why, you may ask? BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO RISK NOT BEING ABLE TO PLAY IN THE NEXT GAME. Hahaha.
Stupid, I know. We had of course, lost this game as well. I don't remember much about it, but I do remember that we were all pretty bummed out after this game. So we gathered our stuff and hung out by the Chip Truck, two feilds away.
There was a three hour waiting period until our next game. Not much really happend during the first hour or so. Mostly just complaining and listening to music, being all excited that there was food around. Bridgette and Bailey were listening to music and dancing, so that was kind fun for a while. O'hara was texting Corby at home, who had been nominated for Valedictorian, as well as one of our player, Hannah.
Joho, Kyrstal, Christine and Brittany had all been huddled off in a corner somewhere, freezing. They had a blanket that looked like tin foil. o.o Chelsea took it though. She was spooning with some people. xD I don't remember who, but it was funneh.
Sophia was going crazy because she /Always/ needs something to do.

Everybody else was pretty chill. Eating pizza, setting fire to the plates and stuff. There was another game going on and it turned out to be the Cougers. :3
YAY!
Some of the girls on their team were playing around and accidentally pegged me in the head with their flip flops. xD They gave me a hug to make up for it.

Just for the hell of it, all of us had gotten bored and somebody came up with  the idea of practicing our 13 man line-out.
Basically our entire team was participating in it. IT WAS AMAZING. There is no other way to describe it.
Afterwards, we all made a joke about rucking over the chip truck and grabbing all the free food we could get. Rofls.
We continued practicing the line-outs for a short while until the other teams were done with the feild. So we could have our Fly-half Joanne practice her thow ins. Kind of like how a soccer player would throw in a ball. With all those... flips and whatnot. -Does not know how to describe it-
Kim and I would be lifting Illish or Hannah. And Michelle would be 'running the play', even though we were just goofing around. She was more or less just there to catch the ball if we missed it. Probably half an hour until our game, somebody had brought these face paint markers. We didn't want to spend the rest of the afternoon being bummed out about OFSAA, so we all decided that it we wanted to go out, knowing that we enjoyed ourselves and became better players because of the experience.
So, we all drew mustaches and beards on ourselves. :3

Rugby Trip: I'm really slow. lol

  • Jun. 21st, 2009 at 11:57 PM


PART TWO. Game day.

I'm a major crab first thing in the morning. Hahaha.
And I am always the first person to wake up. Allllllllwaaaaaaaays. It doesn't matter if you get up at 4 in the morning, I will get up at 3:30. O: <
I don't know why, it's just that when I'm sleeping in a room with other people, I always have to make sure that everybody else is asleep before I am and I need to wake up before them. I don't do it on purpose, it just happens. =/

Anyhow. We had to get up early because our game started at 9:45, or some shiz like that. So I had about three, almost four hours before I really had to do anything important.
Not gonna lie, breakfast was AWESOME, kay? I had like 4563457634 omelettes because they were so damn Godly. Capital G. And I found out that when I go travelling, I need to have Orange Juice. No matter what. I'd say over the whole trip I had about 4 jugs of orange juice at breakfast time. x.x

So, after we had amazing breakfast, it was time to hit the field for practice.
IT WAS FREEZING OUT. >.< But I gave away my hoodie to somebody else because they needed it more than me.
And that day was the day I realised I needed a new hoodie. It's like a circus tent. It's actually pretty big on me as well, but yeah.
Besides how cold it was, we weren't allowed to use the feild for at least 45 minutes. Due to the fact that another game was going on and two other teams were using our field as well. One of them had the same jersey as us. =/ THEY WERE KINDA BITCHY AS WELL, so me and the other Rookies didn't

bother to go say hello to them at all.

But whatever. Our practice was great, having Fred around really motivated us. Mr.Wonderland was kind of worried, but it's a tournament, who wouldn't be worried? All of us were a little scared.

Come game time, we were all ready. We had already started making jokes about the other team. Their school was like, St.Claires or something, but that doesn't matter. What was so damn funny about them was the fact that they had all shown up in the exact same purple track suits. So we had labled them

Team Grape. And they were going to be squished. :3
Of course, we had lost the game, here is why: Team Grape plays Club RUGBY at their school. So they all have insane amount of experience, were our team is fresh with a majority of us being Rookies.  There was no possible way for us to win. On the plus side though, we did score a try on Team Grape. 

Through the whole season, only one other team was able to score a try on them. You should have seen how angry their coach was. Hahaha, that was a moment I can't forget.
Anyway, the team was really weak in their scrums, they didn't really push much. Uhm, their Line-outs were a little crooked, but other than that, they played really well. It was a little frustrating though, their team was composed of really fast players. We are used to playing slow. strong teams.
Our team is really powerful, meaning we can take down just about anybody. O:
And we have done it numerous times before.
I'm hoping that next year, our team will be the same, even though our Vets are leaving. Having them at the games would be the greatest honour. <3

We had gone up with the team from our Championships as well. They had lost their game as well. Riding back to our Hotels was a real pleasure, since we all had a story to share. I'm hoping to see them at Champions next year as well.

KAY, so enough of that.
We had gotten off the bus and Bridgette wanted to chill at the mall, so me and Bailey went to chill with her. We ended up getting joined up with Chelsea, Amy R. and Brianna B. We ended up getting split up at BoatHouse, and I had Amy and Brianna's bags, as well as my own. It was like a workout on it's

own. -.-; So I got to carry around and extra 80-95 pounds with me for an hour. hahaha.
We got back to the hotel and I had fun trying to figure out what room was theirs. xD;;

There wasn't really much to do around the hotel when we had gotten back. All the other Rookies had invaded our room.
Joanne, Krystal, Brittany, Christine, Franco, Kim, Bailey, Me, Bridgette...
That's alot of people to fit into a Best Western hotel room. They are facking smaaaaall.
Anyhow, Christine came to visit every once in a while, but she mostly stayed in her room and moped about her boyfriend. Where as Krystal wouldn't shut the fuck up about her boyfriend. -.- Bridgette put an end to that though, when she came to visit. She came to hang with us a few times.

Anyway. After a while, people started leaving. So it was just Me, Kim, Bailey and Franco for a while. The others had gone to pick up some Ballons and marshmallows, and whatever else they decided.

Bailey and I had gotten bored, and fucking HUNGRY because our last meal was at like, 8 in the morning and it was probably around 10 at night now.
So we went to 2 for 1 pizza and talked about who we thought on our team was sexy, what kind of guys we like and all that other girly stuff that I normally don't talk about. :3 Ever.
We also got to chill with two girls on a rugby team called The Cougers. Hot right? I know. ;D

We brought the pizza back to our hotel room and shared it with our two roomies, Kim and Franco. The other girls had already gone back to the hotel about fifteen minutes before us, we saw them walk by.
They weren't in our room though, which I thought was kind of odd. They normally wont leave us alooone. Jokes.
Anyway, Bridgette had gotten back, claiming that the other grad girls were being bitches and she wanted to keep an eye on us. Liar. <3
Franco and Bailey anded up giving Bridgette a massage, and when the other girls came in with Balloons, we had a blast, being idiodic and making fun of each others helium voices. Joanne recorded some of it. In fact, she has a lot of the pictures and videos from the trip. RAWR.

We all hung and had a brief heart to heart for a bit. Then we all had to go back to our room.
<.< Bridgette had left her rub A535. Since the others were too afraid to go bug the seniors, I ended up going to bring it to her. I needed to get some ice anyway. It was hot as balls in our room.
SO! I knock on the door and the girls in there rush to get into their "We weren't doing anything bad" positions, because Whately hadn't checked their room yet. Turns out it was just me. So I give Tiffany the A535 stuff and go along my marry way for some Ice.
When I get back into the room, Bailey forgot that she had Bridgettes spandex. (As a team, we share everything. EVERYTHIIIIIIIIING.) So I knock on the door and Tiffanny politely answers once again and I ask for whatever. Then all you hear is "WHAT DO YOU WAAAAAANT!?" xD That being

Bridgette, I ask for the spandex, they get whipped into my face and I hand Tiffany the other pair. The door ends up getting slammed in my face and Michelle opens the door to her room, takes a look at me, with spandex still on my face and says "You honestly don't understand the concept of staying in

your own room, do you?". She was joking of course, but I was tired and started stuttering excuses. She just gave me her smile and told me to go to bed.
O: SO I DID.

Not really. I went back to my room and we watched videos, laughing at the most random Shiiizzz. Honestly, we basically laughed ourselves to sleep. <3

Oh yeah and the next morning, after breakfast, we were all going to go to practice for our game. Bridgette walks up to me and says "Do you know why I was pissed at you last night?"
I didn't really say anything at first, I just looked in the other direction and sighed. Eventually I looked at her and said "Do I really want to know?"
She smirked at me and gestured for me to move closer. Upon doing so she yelled into my ear "BECAUSE WE WERE WATCHING PORN." XD Roflmao