The Under 19 lads played against third placed Glenorchy Knights this week on the Saturday before the Gala day, and unfortunately for Team South things did not go according to plan with a loss 2 - 3 to the Knights the final score. Although a loss Coach Spinner was proud of the boys for playing with great team spirit and putting 100% into their game. Our goal scorer was Felix Kang who put away two beautiful shots to keep us in the game but Andrew Robb, Ashley Garland and Harrison Thomas scored for Knights ensuring the win for the visitors.

The day started off with everyone arriving at the game awake and lively. Especially me buzzing with energy, with the exception of Tommo looking seedy as ever. The game kicked off with a fantastic header from a Kingborough player giving them the upper hand in the first half. Tommo kept us in the game with his pressure and intensity, as well as a typical Henry Jones goal, lobbing it over the keeper from outside the box. The second half started with fantastic pressure from the whole team, shutting down every pass made that eventually lead South to score again.

It was a fine and sunny Saturday when the boys rolled in.  Dill set the scene for the game by showing off a range of “clever” tricks before kick-off.  As an inspirational method it seemed to work - there was some good play and we had the Zebras on the run well before half time. Some good mid-game talking between Tommo and Nick made for a nice formation. It was another week without Michael, which put pressure on Cumma once again - but he rose to the occasion. There were two hat-tricks to add to the score board.  One was by Dave who played a fantastic game once he understood what off side meant. Felix also played well scoring himself the other hat-trick. 

Squidy didn’t feel the need to wear shoes that day, he turned up looking like a right Squid ‘ead from South Arm, all he needed was a pair of tie-dyed pants and it would’ve been a sealed deal. As the numbers of South Hobart boys in hoods and beaters slowly dribbled into Wellesley, we became grateful of Max Rintoul’s absence, as the last thing we needed on top of our already average appearance was a bloke in thongs who plays football in Asics trainers; Dillon’s smart haircut wasn’t even enough to match the looks of our opponents, The eagles were wearing tuxedos and climbing out of limousines as if they were going out for dinner, something that every man in the team can safely say I would never and certainly have never done…