John Farnham will make another “Farewell Tour”. Poker machines always win in the end.You will go wrinkly in the bathtub. Football club review nights will invariably have guys dressing up as girls. A yellow car will always be a “lemon”. “Whoops” is never good and Superules will survive due to the never ending occurrence of mid life crises in men.
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| Ron Berry at pace |
All are certainties of life.
Death, taxes and the fact that Hills over 35s will flog Pooraka every time they play are three others.
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| Chucky Seymour strikes a pose |
Not in living memory has a Pooraka team got close to the Hills’ cohort.
1996 was their big chance when 28 Magpies made the trek to Mt Lofty to take on 13 Supertigers. They did get within 10 goals on that occasion.
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| 'Pretty Boy' Kleemann |
Sunday’s game at Pooraka was again highly predictable.
Pooraka, the team that train twice a week, were outclassed by the gaggle of specimens who join up once a fortnight for matches.
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| Weeks pumping up the guns!! |
Good teams are predictable and on any Superule’s Sunday you will see Kleemann pass to Weeks, then goal; or vice versa. This became very apparent during the Pooraka match, so much so, that Matty Mayes decided to “break the chain”. Running to “their spots”, Mayes was able to get on the end of a string of passes to finish accurately and break the pattern. He did this on three separate occasions, each time with an ever increasing level of satisfaction.
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| Debutante Alex Antic |
Another delightful inevitability about this Hills’ team is that new players, invited out by incumbents, are more than capable. In need of a lawyer for team balance, the club trawled Duncan, Basheer, Hannon until running machine Alex Antic agreed to try his hand. Not only did he play well but discovered what he thought was a fertile field of potential claimants, as many looked like workplace accident victims. Unfortunately for Alex, in most cases, “It’s the way I’ve always walked” was the response.
It is a long time since Onkas supplied the Hills’ Superules team with a “real footballer” but debutant Michael “Hammer” Hamilton looked the goods at full forward. Not since Ron Hanson, in the days of boots with wooden sprigs, has an Onka’s player made such a debut. “Hammer” kicked a lazy seven and straightened up the boundary obsessed Tigers.
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| Could Lyons be the next Tiger's pest?? |
Ben Lyons also debuted and his playing style bore an uncanny resemblance to Fremantle serial pest Hayden Ballantyne. It’s always good to have another “in and under” type to dish out easy balls to the plethora of wide runners in the team.
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| Hamlton marks strongly |
The inclusion of three “newbies” caused coach Dave Piro some angst with a player on the bench he had to rotate into the game. Fortunately Andrew Day “copped” an injury and this enabled the coach to concentrate on what can best be described as an average half time joke.
One other reassuring piece of predictability is that if a Superules game is scheduled, Chris Hill will be there. His continuous playing record must, by now, be the over 35s equivalent of Jim Styne’s VFL/AFL record.
Like the Crows, winning form can be deceptive, depending on whom you have played.
The next match is an absolute danger game in terms of location and opponent.
Enticing players to Reynella to play is difficult at the best of times; many equating it with a trip to Siberia. This Sunday’s opponent, Blackwood, represents a local Hill’s derby to rival a Crows, Port showdown. Invariably Blackwood field their best team and a spirited encounter can be expected.
Equally important is the “progressive dinner” to be held the week after, and similar problems with player commitment is to be expected. This event is being held despite sage advice to the contrary. The result of the previous dinner, six years ago, was a nude, player calendar which circulated a little too freely throughout the Hills for most peoples’ liking.
HILLS 2 supergoals 21 – 12 (162) POORAKA 4 – 5 (29)
Best: Kleemann, Weeks, Seymour, Mayes, Hamilton, Day, Powell
Goals: Hamilton 7, Kleemann 5, Mayes 3, Powell, Weeks 2, Jaensch*, Pearce*, Seymour, Wall 1
* Supergoal
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| It goes something like that...where's that bloody ball |
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| The Lincoln Powell School of Kicking |
