Saturday brings our first home fixture of the Fall season with a warm up game against our neighbors from down the road, Seacoast.
This would be a make-up match for the game-that-never-was in the Spring, when they were too "nicked up" from winning the D3 cup at NERFU. I then said some things about them, they said some more things, and much hilarity ensued.
But that's all behind us now, and we're all set for some spirited competition tomorrow. The A Side kicks off at 1pm, so players should be in the neighborhood by 11:30am.
Here's where the game will be played, otherwise known as Dougherty Field:
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After all that's said and done, we will be heading off to our new sponsors, The Stadium, for some booze, food and first-class waitresses. Meet us there if you're just too darn frit of getting roped in to play....
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Weymouth Warm Up
Portland made its first attempt to gather the faithful this weekend for a warm up game at South Shore, and yea verily, Coleridge was right, summer has indeed set in with its usual severity.
Nothing more to say about the numbers that hasn't already been said behind closed doors. It was what it was. Thirteen and later fourteen players were able to inconvenience themselves long enough to take the trip down to South Weymouth, while others attended to the sundry other distractions that can get in our way if we want them to.
Thanks to South Shore for treating the game in the spirit in which it was intended and for lending us a couple of players to fill in the gaps in our own ranks, and it was thusly equipped that we commenced the game of three 25-minute periods.
The South Shore pitch is a small one, with just enough room to land a couple of hundred geese apparently, and with a stiff cross-field breeze the touchlines too often came in to play and prevented much in the way of fluid play. Both sides were clearly reacquainting themselves with the rules, giving rise to numerous penalties and a staccato style of play that could not have been too easy on the eye of the spectators.
Lots of lineouts ensued, which themselves were often ugly slap-around affairs, not helped by different calls and some cross-cultural confusion in pronunciation. It'll all be alright on the night though.
Although South Shore opened the scoring with a penalty, Portland were first to cross the line when Jerry Alves created and then jinked through the kind of gap that only he could fit through. Evan made the conversion and thanks to some good Portland defense and circuitous running by South Shore backs, that's how the score remained for most of the rest of the period. At the very end however an optimistic kick ahead from South Shore bounced kindly for them, wrong footed our full back, and gifted them a score. 10-7 at "third time".
The second third was also pretty evenly matched, with Portland adding a try through a Francis crash ball, and a penalty of our own, while South Shore managed another converted score to level the game at 17-17.
Portland was able to put some daylight between themselves and the hosts in the third period, with 3 tries to South Shore's 1. A pair of conversions a-piece brought the final score to 34-24 in favor of the visitors.
A good showing by those who were there, but it's the not-showing that gave greater cause for concern.
Portland are at home to Seacoast this coming weekend, so expect the woodwork to be fully vacated.
Nothing more to say about the numbers that hasn't already been said behind closed doors. It was what it was. Thirteen and later fourteen players were able to inconvenience themselves long enough to take the trip down to South Weymouth, while others attended to the sundry other distractions that can get in our way if we want them to.
Thanks to South Shore for treating the game in the spirit in which it was intended and for lending us a couple of players to fill in the gaps in our own ranks, and it was thusly equipped that we commenced the game of three 25-minute periods.
The South Shore pitch is a small one, with just enough room to land a couple of hundred geese apparently, and with a stiff cross-field breeze the touchlines too often came in to play and prevented much in the way of fluid play. Both sides were clearly reacquainting themselves with the rules, giving rise to numerous penalties and a staccato style of play that could not have been too easy on the eye of the spectators.
Lots of lineouts ensued, which themselves were often ugly slap-around affairs, not helped by different calls and some cross-cultural confusion in pronunciation. It'll all be alright on the night though.
Although South Shore opened the scoring with a penalty, Portland were first to cross the line when Jerry Alves created and then jinked through the kind of gap that only he could fit through. Evan made the conversion and thanks to some good Portland defense and circuitous running by South Shore backs, that's how the score remained for most of the rest of the period. At the very end however an optimistic kick ahead from South Shore bounced kindly for them, wrong footed our full back, and gifted them a score. 10-7 at "third time".
The second third was also pretty evenly matched, with Portland adding a try through a Francis crash ball, and a penalty of our own, while South Shore managed another converted score to level the game at 17-17.
Portland was able to put some daylight between themselves and the hosts in the third period, with 3 tries to South Shore's 1. A pair of conversions a-piece brought the final score to 34-24 in favor of the visitors.
A good showing by those who were there, but it's the not-showing that gave greater cause for concern.
Portland are at home to Seacoast this coming weekend, so expect the woodwork to be fully vacated.
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