Griffins 53 - 12 DEA Tigers 4th

What a nice Saturday afternoon at So Kon Po – Sun was shining, temperatures reached a for Scots tropical 18°C and our Ginger boys had to apply sun protection for a last time before Christmas. Everything seemed great and after the Kowloon victory the week before, our self esteem seemed to be as tall as the ICC. Shortly after kick off we secured the ball and were in their 22 without time to waste. It took us less than 5 minutes to put the first try on them, scored by somebody from the backs (sorry I was buying the water somebody had forgot to bring at that point). Right after the restart we put the pressure back on them. If it wouldn’t have been for the 3 penalties for not rolling away within 1 minute, it would have been time to score again. Anyway after a scrum on their 5 meter line for us, our pack decided to use their 900 to 500 Kg pack weight advantage and steamroll through the poor little bumblebees! Try scored by Dom “try scoring machine” Chatterton.
Not even 5 minutes later a spectacular pass from Tom “the ginger beast” Duffy to Harvard Tom to Recon “chief snitch” Tom and then to Ross, who by the way is not going to be a dad, resulted in the next try! The next try followed after a couple of scrums and up and downs the pitch it was a pile of forwards who were found to have crossed the line together but it was Alex “the Panzer” Kaymer who scored his first “Versuch” ever! On a not so unimportant side note it has to be pointed out that his girlfriend and Griffins groupie Annelise missed this performance as well as his 2nd try later in that game!! Everybody please point that out to her next time you see her! With one more try scored by Andre “The Brazilian” Andrade after an interception, we went into halftime with a comfortable lead and the Bonus point secured as well. After the arrival of Arrann “team manager who is abundant this season” Young and 200 beers we started the 2nd half with plenty of changes. Never the less we didn’t slow down our efforts and so it didn’t take too long until Dom “try scoring machine” Chatterton scored the second try – after a scrum of course but this time the opponents put the ball in. Up to that point we had managed to keep their score sheet clean however it didn’t stay that way and after a turnover in their 22 one of those little Chinese Usain Bolt’s outsprinted our complete backline and Alex Kaymer to put points on their scoreboard. Fired up by that and to show them that we are not willing to slow down, Winton “chu chu train” de St John Pryce (who can spell tha name anyway?) followed by Boris “I dive on the ball in front of the referee” Niethammer teamed up to do a double team on the DEA boys. Anyhow after seeing this massive amount of men running onto them, they decided to make way and let Winton go through to score a try under the posts. Shortly after that try Weasel “I run into other guys head first” decided to pass a ball for the 2nd time this season and got intercepted. The little fast china man was away for the 2nd 70 meter try for DEA as not even Andre “The Brazilian” could chase that little guy down – maybe you should really wax those legs Andre! After kick off to them, we put pressure on them again and it was Craig “ the father of Tom” McKenzie who thought to have scored a try. Unfortunately for him it was the Football (soccer for you Americans) goal line and he was still 3 meters out of the tryzone, resulting in a scrum for DEA what meant that we will win the ball anyhow. After the scrum we won the ball and scored another try (this one can be claimed as I didn’t see who scored it)! Then with the last action of the game, Alex “the Panzer” Kaymer picked up the ball from the back of a ruck and dove over the line for his 2nd of the career / day and the game ended with 9 tries and 4 conversions to 2 tries and 1 conversion 53 -12 to the mighty griffins.
After the game celebrations were about to start for most of the Griffins – anyhow we were more than happy to supply some forwards to the Broncos game vs. Scum which they unfortunately lost.
Then we kicked off the Griffins Dirty Muppets X’Mas party by taking the Bus via Happy Valley to Wanchai, where his honorable Judge assembled the court session for the first half of the season! As it was also Captain Anthony “Yank who drives the tank” Carango 40th Birthday the week before a B’day gift and a cake were due. So whoever was out there in Wanchai, wondering why grown man in Muppets costumes had brown faces – it was chocolate cake. The 200 beers and 90 shots handed out were gone by the hour and a bunch of dressed men wondered through Wanchai until the early morning hours. What an EPIC party! GRIFFINS – Unity ON and OFF the pitch!