The Ross Wall File - Round 6 vs Adelaide Lions

25 IN A ROW

The Hills’ Superulers achieved a significant milestone by recording their 25th consecutive victory.

Celebrating 23 years of involvement in this elite competition, the Supertigers overran the Adelaide Lions to stay ahead of the Geelong Cats who won their 24th quarter in a row. This is a Superule’s record which could stand for longer than Jim Styne’s uninterrupted playing feat.

Coach Dave Piro is now charged with maintaining his list to ensure continuing success.

Where will he conjure up new blood?

With Israel Folau snapped up by West Sydney and Karmichael Hunt soon to be a Gold Coaster, what does that leave for the Hills’ boys.

Piro has not been idle in addressing this matter.

Leaked copies of his recruitment book show creative plans to bolster the team for the future.

Controversial TV personality Kyle Sandilands is his number one pick in the hope that he is related to Fremantle’s giant ruckman; Aaron. Lone yacht woman Jessica Watson is also high on the hit list so that at least one player can navigate in a straight line towards goal.

Green’s leader Bob Brown is a logical replacement for Gary Magee because no one is kicking more goals at the moment than him.World Snooker champion Neil Robertson would be a “gun 8 Ball partner” for Kim Pearce as he takes on all comers at national carnivals. Samantha Stosur is a super athlete who would never give up. She might also find Superules appealing because there are currently no Italians playing. Duncan Chessell would be looking for his “Next Everest” and scaling the Superule’s mountain would be a real challenge. His ability to handle the freezing conditions of winter football could be a valuable team asset.

Already confronted by a major crisis with his current forward line Piro must juggle many key performance indicators when making recruitment decisions. His most pressing is the poetic nature of the names which make up the forward line.

Seeking consistency when he reads out the attacking line up he now has Watty, Pearcy, Specky, Snooksie, Hilly but struggles with the final spot held down by Damo.

Name testing of the potential new recruits generated a new look forward line of Kyley, Jessie, Browny, Neilly and Sammy but Chesty just doesn’t fit.

For his own replacement Dave can’t go past the guy who sits in the front row of every Crow’s game. Dave doesn’t have his name but the spectator apparently knows everything coach Neil Craig should be doing and so would be a logical replacement.

However, there is currently no urgency in finding a replacement for the coach or many of the players.

Sunday’s victory was achieved despite a number of the Supertiger stars missing from the line up.

Aleks Bojanic rucked all day without leaving the ground.

Richard Kleemann, performed his Sunday “Jekyll and Hyde” act as he vacillated between driving the hearse and driving the team.

Gary Magee unsettled his team mates with his movements pre match, and his opponent during the game.

Randall Weekes was sensational as a key forward target and Wayne Seymour was dogged around the packs.

Scott Molloy gathered a moving ball on the half volley without changing stride and David “Runt” Wuttke was impassable across half back.

Kim Pearce led “Shane the Librarian” a merry dance and Michael Toubia covered more ground than the Port Adelaide runner.

The reward for victory is a three week break before travelling north for the Riverland game on June 27th. This is a real danger game as the Berri based team will be at full strength and looking to celebrate a significant Riverland anniversary.

Bojanic, head of the team’s marketing arm, has issued a call to arms, “Your team needs you” to all current players.

Rob McGregor has offered his Blanchetown shack as a team stopover for a Saturday night strategy meeting and Dale Wiley announced that next match he will only kick the ball to his team mates.

HILLS 13 – 14     ADELAIDE LIONS 7 – 9

Goals: Magee 4, Weekes, Snooks, Toubia 2, C. Hill, Pearce, Seymour 1

Best: Kleemann, Seymour, Weekes, Magee, Wuttke, Toubia, Bojanic