Having won seven matches in a row and and rather bizarley finding ourselves yop of the league this was still ti be our first week without Vi :-(
How would the team cope? On the plus side (a very angry) Kyla was back.
However, with the flames from last weeks 'First Battle of Shoredicth' dying down it was the Really Awful Dodgers who arose from the ashes like a Phoenix to be the star team this week.
First up however were the Premier League Team. This week they welcomed new players Brandon Davis and Sarah Tessier into the squad who had shamelessly been fast-tracked into the first team on the basis that they were Canadian! Yes that's correct. That is the limit of my tactical genius.
The Awful Dodgers
v Dodgeball UK Heart-Throbs
With some of the squad reluctnat to leave the comfort of the Bar Kick sofas and Raphael 'Getting a London A-Z for Christmas' Emerich being guided in to the new venue by mobile phone. The first team were somewhat disorganised when they first arrived on court. The first game was going to be tough if 'as promised' Dodgeball UK supremo Andy Stedman was going to use the 'Heart-Throbs' as an invitational 'all-star' team. Indeed their first weeks set of results had been good winning 3/3 games against decent oppositon. They even selected 'yours truly'. However, thankfully for our unbeaten run it was an entirely different team that lined up against us.Hmmmm.....haven't we seen some of these players before.
If we were disorganised on court, Didgeball UK has been a mess behind the scenes. The promised presence of Dodgeball's 'Harlem Globetrotters' where not in evidence and instead we were faced with the team we seem to play EVERY WEEK. Schoolgirls & Ball Girls + league referee Terrie-May.
To their credit the replacements put up a valient resisitance proving that they are getting better every week. In fact at one point it looked like the match was going to go in their favour.
This wasn't the best performance by a long stretch by the Awful Dodgers however soem great throwing by Kyla who had now focuseed her day's anger on Dodgeball destruction saw us claw our way to another win.
Result: Awful Dodgers 2 Dodgeball UK Heart Throbs 1
v Schoolgirls & Ball-Girls
The old football chant goes.
"Can we play you every week?"
With School Girls & Ball Girls we seem to have got our wish. This week we effectively played them twice. With Raphael now in situ and raring to make his season debut we were confident that this match was going to be breeze........It wasn't......even though the final score suggests it was. THe SGs & BGs are fast improving rapidly but ultimately they had just played six matches on the tot and were knackered.
On the plus side they picked up their first win of the season and personally I'm glad to get our fixtures against them out of the way for this season. We've beat the 3 (four) times out of 3 (four) and 'm sure by the end of the season they will start beating a few teams who are near the top of the league. Thsi can only help us:-)
They are also a very socialble and decent team. we like playing them.
Result: The Awful Dodgers 2 Schoolgirls & Ball-Girls 0
v Busted Balls
Was this to be the '2nd Battle of Shoreditch'?
Well....in a word...No. Alex was devasted that her arch-nemisis was adsent from their team. Did the lack of this vital spark lead to the end of our nine match unbeaten run that had took us from our usual spot in the lower reaches of the league to the VERY TOP. Did we run out of steam or were a fully focussed Busted Balls simply too good for us?
Whatever the outcome our record breaking set of results have left us in a very healthy position to qualify for finals night:-) Onwards and upwards.
Result: The Awful Dodgers 0 Busted Balls 2
The its time for the hight light of the night!!
The Really Awful Dodgers
Having seen in prevuious week themselves be very much in the shade of their 'older siblings' the Really awful Dodgers had seen their role models falter for the first time. How would this influence their performance?
v The Dodgetweeners
Would the Really Awful Dodgers have the 'Will' to beat their first appointments or would they be be slightly 'Jay'ed by the previous weeks performances and late start.? Would any of them adopt my 'Neil'ing technique to help them win?.....and win they did. 'Simon' Obee was very please with the victory.
Thanks Simon for playing this week. I was really struggling to think of a 4th bad pun.
Result: The Really Awful Dodgers 2 The Dodgebetweeners 0
First 2-0 win ever!!!
v Magic
2 wins in a row? Could it be magic, now'?
Unfortunately it was. With their green t-shirts ready for week one and their decent results 'Magic' wouldn't be out of place in the Premier League. The Really Awful Dodgers were in for a tough game and were brought to ground with a bump. Its difficult to write a match report about a game that was over so quickly.
Result: The Really Awful Dodgers 0 Magic 2
v The Honey Badgers
Let's watch the video again!!
Remeber this team? Remember their one key asset? The guy in the black T-shirt who was a really good catcher?.....No obviuosly not and this week he had changed T-shirts. How dare he!!!!
The Really Awful Dodgers who had played the previous week obviously couldn't remember him. However, this didn't matter so much as we had a ace catcher in our midst in Anton (or Bob) - apologies I haven't quite got to grips with differentialting Laura's friends from each other..
Whichever one it was (bright yellow/greenish T-shirt) pulled off a match turning diving wonder catch.
A hard fought and deserved victory in a very entertaining game against a team of very nice and sporting people. This is what Dodgeball is all about.
Well done. Beers all round.
Result: The Really Awful Dodgers 2 The Honey Badgers 1
v Cojones
A fourth game? Yes that's right. The fixtures computer has been playing up. More to follow on that one.
perhaps those beers weren't a great idea after all. They still had a decent team to play. A night of ups and downs ended in another 2-0 defeat, but hey in a week of ups and down at least they had 2 peaks.
Result: The Really Awful Dodgers 0 Cojones 2
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