London Trip- The Rugby
I'm back from London for the weekend. Smurfit played 4 games in total.
Here's the breakdown;
We started out facing up against Harvard. We played in Regent Park beside LBS with ionic pillared mansions in the backdrop. We frankly couldn't get our heads in the game and got trounced.
The Second game against INSEAD- we found our grits and were able to put up a great show. We walked away with a victory, meaning we would move on to the Semi-Final (later that day)
The Third game was the Semi-Final against LBS. The Winner would square off against Harvard "A" team (nothing to do with the 80's television show- just schools with more than one team sent categorized them into an A team and B team- the A team being the more organized and experienced squad.
With about 5 minutes left of a brutal game- we were down by a conversion. Then- One of our teammates took a really bad hit and we had to call an ambulance. We all pulled it all together amid calls to "Do it for Bob!!!" (our fallen teammate) and scored a converted and an unconverted try.
The Next day- we woke up extremely tired and sore. We went against the Harvard A Team again- the same from the day before- but this time with some Ringers from the B team in the back row which actually were better than some of the back row A's- not to insult A's back rows from the day before; they did, after all, thump us.
The end result- we got second place in the Tournament, which is disappointing, but still quite respectable and the Captain did say he was proud of all of us...
Anyways- a subsequent blog to come will talk about the other aspect of the trip. The parties!
Ouch! I am in so much pain- from the rugby- not the parties.
Here's the breakdown;
We started out facing up against Harvard. We played in Regent Park beside LBS with ionic pillared mansions in the backdrop. We frankly couldn't get our heads in the game and got trounced.
The Second game against INSEAD- we found our grits and were able to put up a great show. We walked away with a victory, meaning we would move on to the Semi-Final (later that day)
The Third game was the Semi-Final against LBS. The Winner would square off against Harvard "A" team (nothing to do with the 80's television show- just schools with more than one team sent categorized them into an A team and B team- the A team being the more organized and experienced squad.
With about 5 minutes left of a brutal game- we were down by a conversion. Then- One of our teammates took a really bad hit and we had to call an ambulance. We all pulled it all together amid calls to "Do it for Bob!!!" (our fallen teammate) and scored a converted and an unconverted try.
The Next day- we woke up extremely tired and sore. We went against the Harvard A Team again- the same from the day before- but this time with some Ringers from the B team in the back row which actually were better than some of the back row A's- not to insult A's back rows from the day before; they did, after all, thump us.
The end result- we got second place in the Tournament, which is disappointing, but still quite respectable and the Captain did say he was proud of all of us...
Anyways- a subsequent blog to come will talk about the other aspect of the trip. The parties!
Ouch! I am in so much pain- from the rugby- not the parties.
posted by Mike at 2/20/2006 10:03:00 a.m.
1 Comments:
2nd place sounds good to me... I'd be thrilled just to say that I was on a team that was taking on Harvard! But perhaps I'm easily impressed and amused.
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