Welsh League Finals

The Welsh League is normally over and done with by May or June, but this year the weather was so bad that the final weekend had to be called off and rearranged for September.  Cardiff A went into it mid-table having played remarkably average in the first 2 tournaments.  I wasn’t at the earlier tournaments but this is what I was told.  

The Uni, on the other hand, went into the tournament bottom of the league, but this was because they couldn’t make the previous 2 tournaments due to exams and other student stuff, so they hadn’t played any games yet.  This meant they were going to have to play every team twice this weekend, so they had 10 games on and off the whole day!  They were going to be more tired than a Mexican who had just finished his first day of work.

Cardiff B were looking for promotion and had brought along their internation Iranian ringer to help them out...  With him in their team would have probably beaten the A team, but they didn't want to swap any player around just to make sure they were promoted.

They won their first game 20-0.  A score which was embarrassing more for them than the team they were playing against.  

This photo is Rob beating a Cardiff Uni girl in the sprint, but it looks pretty close.  The girls were all just too excited about the Iranians abs to care about the score!  It is a different class of polo player who does push ups between the games...

We had to play Rhonda A, Aberfan A and B, Cardiff Uni twice and Dragon.  Straight away it was obvious that the weekend had clashed with another event, as the teams we were due to play would have struggled in the baby leagues.  It felt like a waste of time even turning up, but if we aren’t going to support the local league then who will?

The day was looking pretty standard, we had our first game with the uni, which we won fairly easily, we had a fiery game against Rhonda, where we were accused of cheating many times!  This wasn’t the case, we were just poor and they were worse, but we ended up winning.  We then played the Aberfan teams which were the hardest games of the day but we won both.  

It all kicked off in our second game against the Uni, they decided that they didn’t want to play fair and pushed me over into an oncoming boat.  One dislocated shoulder later and they manage to scrape a draw against us.  This called for a short but exciting trip to A&E with Helen behind the wheel of my car.  Bearing in mind she hadn’t driven a manual car since the day she passed her test, I was fairly happy with just the one stall on the way there.

I found out later that we came third overall so I should get a sweet medal.  The B’s won the league and got promoted, so it should be fun next year playing against them!