When faced with danger, run away! Works every time!!

On Tuesday night we won through to the final of our group of the Oztag tournament. I'd like to think that I was an integral part of the victory ... which I actually was, but not in a particularly good way.

First half, we're defending on our try line, the ball is passed to one of their players, I step up (literally just stood up and took a step forward) in an attempt to tag her, but instead of trying to run around me like most people would, she decides to run full pelt, head first into my chest. I was fine, but she bounced off and was looking a wee bit dazed for the next 5 mins or so.

10 mins later, after we were matching each other try for try, I am passed the ball. Have nowhere to run to, and someone in front of me trying to tag me so I do what any sensible person would ... I run away (just happens to be towards my own try line as there's nobody behind me to pass the ball to. In hindsight, just getting tagged would have left us further up field, but in the heat of the moment I ran, dodged back and forth, and eventually one of my team mates ran back to receive the pass. However. Just before I made the pass I jinked to the right and as I turned to watch our guys running the ball back up the field and prepared to make chase I heard a blood curdling scream from behind me. Hastily thought 'what did I do?!' looked down and saw the guy who had been chasing me writhing on the floor in agony clutching his knee. I reckon what happened was he went over on his ankle, but his knee (which was already strapped up) decided to go 'pop', quite literally! Thankfully half time was blown and everyone came back to see what was up with him. Turns out he'd had some lateral ligament/muscle knee probs before and it had gone big time. Queue feeling rather guilty, then realising there was nothing I did other than run away, which I can't really be blamed for. Turns out that that incident opened up the game for us in the second half, and we scored quite a few more tries and ended up winning fairly comfortably, so as I said, I was an integral part of the victory!

Tootle pip.

Rich