Lumbered? Lumbered !?!?

I just read the North Shore match report, and I'm rendered (almost) speechless in disbelief.

"lumbered"?? What's that about?

I can think of so many more suitable adjectives. How about "flew", "jinked", "tore" or "steamed". I even would have settled for "galloped", "careened" or "sashayed".

So what would be slower than lumbering? Plodding? Shambling? Dawdling? 'Cos that's what the North Shore backs must have been doing not to catch me.

Well at least he got the score right. 18-17. Yeah. Lumber that.