CLEAN SWEEP FOR SEASON 2009
The consummate 10 goal victory over Rosewater on Sunday completed a perfect season for the Hills’ Superules team.
With only 16 players available, the Supertigers were confronted with 23 Bulldog opponents, most of whom were on the ground at any one stage. This required a superhuman effort from those entrusted with the task of retaining the “Top dog” status.
While the Hills’ 2009 season rewrites the record books, including emphatic triumphs over the powerful Sacred Heart and Gawler teams; the question is how to top this achievement?
This feat of conquest has been compared to the dominance of Sturt’s premiership haul in the sixties and the monopoly held by the Beatles on the number one chart spot in the same era.
It has been paralleled with awesome performance of Usain Bolt and the national domination of South Australia in the most bizarre murders equation.
Where to now for many of the players who created Superules’ history?
What possible challenge remains for this ambitious group of senior athletes?
The club now faces a similar problem to the Brisbane Lions when they reigned supreme; that of how to keep the group together, under the salary cap.
Will the Hills’ boys take pay cuts in order to stay together as a team?
Will other pursuits now become more important, with new Everests to climb?
Sean Watt kicked seven goals in a display of total dominance.This could be enough to lift him into contention for the top goal kicking award for the season.
Could this be the carrot to dangle in front of Sean to entice him back in 2010?
Aleks Bojanic, after single handedly taking on three ruck giants, will visit his knee surgeon for another medical intrusion into his anatomy. Given that the anesthetic only temporarily stops him talking, we know Aleks will be back.
Damien “Dom” Ryde ran himself into the ground, to the stage that he was unable to raise himself off the grass after yet another contested ball situation. Dom was most fortunate to avoid injury as two packs of players ran over his prostate carcass during the next two minutes until the “Oxygen Trainer” could get to him.
“Worst case ever of “Severe Lactic Lethargy” was the expert assessment.
How will the team entice Dom back to push his body to the limits of human endurance again?
Kim Pearce would play football everyday of his life if there were games on. His appetite for the game is insatiable and his aversion to playing defensive football is legendary. On Sunday Kim not only played a sensational last half at full back, but checked, spoiled and intercepted like a person who had been doing it all his life.
The other complete character reversal surfaced post match.
Kim craves and even hoards the after game cans of beer, but on Sunday he gave away the last “tinnie” to a fellow player.
Do these bizarre behavior shifts represent the first signs of a major psychological upheaval?
Has Kim undergone a “Mid Life Sea Change” and what does this mean for his future?
Could this lead him to hang up his boots in favour of mystic Eastern philosophical pursuits based on Yoga and Tai Chi?
Having soccered the “Goal of the Year” off the outside of his non preferred foot from 30 metres, what incentive will Troy Snooks have to return in 2010?
How will Richard Slater and Andrew Frohling get to games next year?
Richie’s uninsured car is undrivable after having its windscreen shattered when he inadvisably parked behind the goals and Frohl’s will not get his licence back until 2011.
Rob McGregor, who takes great delight in socialising with his opponents during the match, jagged his hamstring and will require an intensive rehabilitation over the summer.
Will he now opt for social intercourse at his shack on the river instead of on the football field?
Dave Wuttke, who credits Uraidla Spring Water with the team’s success, will be back as long as the spring continues to flow.
Neil Thomson, who has struck a rich vein of form will undoubtedly return and Chris Hill is safe while the controversial “Euthanasia Bill” is not passed.
All in all a fantastic season and just like every Hills’ Superules match in its history, no one knows who will turn up next time, and in what state.
HILLS 14 – 12 ROSEWATER 4 – 8
Best: Watt, Geraghty, Thomson, Wuttke, Bojanic, Snooks, Ryde
Goals: Watt7, Ormsby 3, Pearce, Snooks 2
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