At Scott Reserve on the weekend:
Colts
Warnbro 10 7 67 def High Wycombe 4 10 34
Reserves
Canning Vale 11 20 86 def CWP 2 5 17
League
High Wycombe 15 17 107 def CWP 15 10 100
Long time listener, first time caller gents so please bear with me if this drags on. Got to the ground just before half time of the colts to see a fairly high intensity Colts match that had a little bit of heat in it. Skills and brand of footy looked pretty good post the break and although I didn't see a lot more of it, it did seem like an entertaining game.
We started the Reserves game and for the third time playing CV this year there seemed to be a lot of new faces in the team; maybe LAG was telling some truth in his veiled post last week. Anyway the game started at a frenetic pace, the quickest of any game I'd played all year, including the couple of League games I filled in. Neither team had scored a goal very early (or at least I remember) and a couple of points were scored at either end. However that's all I remember from the game as about 10 mins into the game I was completely cleaned up whilst picking the footy up, apparently clear of a contest. From there I managed to get myself off the ground, although at the time I had absolutely no idea where I was. Physio thankfully ruled me out and wouldn't allow me to return to the field, which was a wise decision in hindsight. LAG, I am almost absolutely sure it was you who committed the act, but I cannot view the who received yellow cards from opposition in the game, can I LAG? For the record, I was unable to work Sunday & Monday, and am still suffering from headaches, neck & back pain. One word to describe what happened..... 'Filthy'....
Anyway, apparently it was pretty was fairly close until half time where CV blew CWP out of the water and extinguished any hope we had. Good luck to CV next week but I expect Warnbro to get through, it was surprising seeing Thornlie knock over Warnbro in the Qualifying final.
The League game by all reports was an entertaining match see-sawing between CWP and High Wycombe. CWP held a 3 goal league at half time but the class of HW shone through in the second half to run out three goal winners. Congratulations to them, they were better then a fourth placed side in my opinion, and will be a genuine danger to all those who may face them in the next few weeks.
The only negative feedback I received from our supporters was the behaviour of some HW supporters when one of the CWP players suffered a serious injury. The player had shattered his radius where it joins the elbow and was making his way off in considerable pain where some high quality HW folk in the crowd thought it appropriate to inform him of his perceived 'reduced manly stature'. Take from that what you will. When a CWP supporter asked that they show a bit of respect to a seriously injured player, they received a strongly abusive rebuttal, which finished with a wild swing that collected a CWP spectator in the face. Feel free to correct me on the detail, but physical contact between spectators is definitely not what amateur footy is all about.
Our injured player is due for surgery on his shattered radius, with parts of an artificial radius and elbow to be inserted in his arm. For our sake, we hope that his quality of life post surgery is not diminished, let alone whether he plays football for our club again.
