Barramundis First Game

Sunday Game 1 Hong Kong So the mundis have arrived at worlds. Ask Hong Kong.
Up at 6.30am for brekkie before we met at thunderbird stadium for our first game, ready to show the world how the disc spins down under. The pre tour is now well behind us and it was time to implement the lessons learned. The Thunda boys were making a lot of noise on the adjacent field and it was pretty awesome having them so close. Unfortunately we'd lost Gaby to illness overnight and vickie wasn't feeling 100% but she played anyway. JD is still nursing his pre-tour calf injury and also sat the day out.

Wearing our new green uniforms (which arrived just yesterday!) we came out on D fired up we won an early turn and punched the 1st goal home. The first half flew by with some early highlights including possibly the catch of the tournament by bec carman from a wealands huck. without breaking stride she extended fully horizontal with her left hand outstretch to drag in a brilliant goal, the mundis 3rd. there was much rejoicing. that must have been the extra gear she was talking up ;) notty and wealy also had offense saving layout grabs. their highlight was their second goal, a layout callahan after forcing us deep into our endzone.

the honkies didn't roll over, scored a few and broke our force with seeming relative ease. we'd held the force superbly all pre-tour, so this was disappointing. we tried a few zone combinations to try and fill the void left due to Sweet As' PCL injury. Wazza came over to the D team occassionally to support lee as our deep options in the zone and our transition worked nicely. our man defence was lacking a little intensity but the mundis played the game through taking it 17-5 after an 8-2 half. Huy and Lucy were given prizes as best on field, we were suspicious they just fancied Huy ;) Wealy was fired up and bidding on D. Andie scored some, and Bec reeled in what aL thought had gone way over her and out the side - nice one vickie, i mean, bec. Tex got a handblock (albeit on a girl :). Win one under our belts, we then cooled down watching thunda come from behind to take down france. and then the terra girls pull back the an early deficit to take down canada. yeah australia!!