Oh my....what a season that dawns upon us. Like fresh bread that has been left on the kitchen bench to cool, a smell of promised joy wafts across the kitchens in the GPS. New, old and imported coaches have been spending the off season preparing fresh ideas, new possibilities, exciting recipes for success. All that is now required is the sous chefs with their loyal band of kitchen hands to put it all in place. The season ahead brings as well so much potential of mirth and merriment for the supporters and punters who make their ways to hallowed grounds of their respective fields. Here too, in the greener keyboard pastures of G&G, we now find ourselves prepped and ready, balls pumped, ovals freshly chalked and sarcasms finely sharpened for season 2019 to begin.
Some fearless predictions.... PART ONE
Scots will beat their chest harder than Tarzan on a roid rage bender after they win the first two games. Nothing like early success to create a sense of manifest destiny that the Dark Lord Lambert believes that he will sweep all before them and the minions of middle earth will cower in his shadow. Scots have the potential to win the title but will Brian Smiths players learn how to handle the kicking game that undid them in 2018. They like to face up to the challenge and use blunt force trauma to smash their way through and smash opponents. But, as a pack of smaller cattle dogs showed in 2018, a slick back line with a perchance for changing angles, subtle kicks and willingness to turn the slower beasts causes real havoc with the Uruk-hai lines of defense.
Riverview will of course live up to their reputation of being the Looney Tunes of Lane Cove. Such fun and such joy they bring to the game with their incessant drums, incomprehensible chants and their over inflated egos that take up the most of the grandstand. Riverview love to be seen as the Dark Horses and this will not change. Last season they were beaten at the death by the runaway Joeys boys who had night vision goggles fitted at half time to allow them to see the final kick off as it came down from the twilight sky. View will fancy their chances this season, not only with the check out girls at Woolworths of Lane Cove, but on the field. A team based on mystery and guile I am told and one that will test all before them. Depth may be the issue so they hoping for a fit season ahead and plenty of recovery chicken burgers and quinoa milkshakes.
