Freshers Week

After the Captain’s run (walk up the shopping aisle in Marks & Sparks I mean Aldi) 2 wrinklies were a doubt for the weekend. Hugh St Leger had a knee injury, kneeling in homage to Harry after him being picked for the Irish Under 16 Team. Victor O’Shea having a nose for goal in the last match got a nasal infection. But Saturday morning he was sniffing for goals again.

A full squad of 16 arrived at the ground on a miserably squally day. Harks had built up enough brownie points to be let out this week. Some husbands and boyfriends had the same idea as myself of using Ikea as a bargaining tool tempter to get out of chains but my get out of jail card was not needed and the joker was out of the pack. All we need now is a Manager to run the bench (any takers?) On the way into the ground negotiations started with Tony Long (aka Steve Bruce) but unfortunately he couldn’t put pen to paper as it was outside the January window.
Herr Flick Rath put the troops through their paces. This was badly needed with several primadonnas with big b**b**s on the team since Christmas. The opposition students arrived in dribs and drabs but a few seemed to have a duvet day in the scratcher. After only 7 players arrived, with one of them having to umpire, with us having a full squad and after already beating them 12-1 at home, we decided to make it more enjoyable for everyone. Suddenly Trinners had 4 hairy immature students studying for the day. Rick O’Sé studying psychology. Jush Van der Flier studying the effects of Braais on the environment. Ed De Burca Sheeran studying music and fashion with his latest “off the shoulder” look CHC track suit and Joe “Harks”Canning studying viticulture and fire-fighting.

The Saint Hugh Legend and the skipper swapped their sticks for white ones and whistles and let the young guns have free rein. 3 “The” High Skool players took to the pitch and if you included the skipper’s brief spell (on the pitch not at the school) there were 4. We were joined today by Ryan Wynne who looked very assured and composed on the ball and slotted in a sweeper, throwing overheads the length of the pitch on to forwards sticks showing the skipper how to do it as he hadn’t thrown one up in a long time. Ryan is one to watch will go all the way to the top. The team was also shown the difference between Jacob Minehane and Jake Tipping (a bit like small and far away in Father Ted). The latter being part of the Monkstown Tipping family dynasty.

Anyway CHC took an early lead with Guy Banton sneaking in at the back post for the opener. Brendan O’Sullivan added a short corner with Ben Phelan scoring a third. So at half time the score was 3-0. At the start of the 3rd quarter Ben Phelan squeezed another through the goalies legs from the end line on the reverse. Brendan scored another 2 goals with Geyser sweeping in the 7th first time. The hairy students got a consolation goal. But as the restrictions have lifted the pints are on Brendan O’Sullivan after scoring a hat-trick.

Congratulations to Harry St Leger who I met last week at the firsts match v Annadale a nice young fella. He must have got it from his mother!!!

So 7-1 the final result the immature students headed off to the Pav while the rest of us rushed home for the match and as we now know we all lived happily ever after.