NSW Cup. Wenty 32-28 over Central Coast. Was 22-0 to Central Coast at halftime..
Tryscorers: Nasso, Rose, Humble, Aiga, Sio and Oake.
Goals: Humble 4/6 in his defense the 2 he missed were right on the sideline with a bit of wind so they were pretty difficult.
We had poor discipline in the first half giving away to many penalties not that the ref was willing to do us any favours! On the 5th tackle or anytime we got close to Central Coast's line we'd kinda self-destruct. Now I haven't seen any of the Central Coast games this year but far out today they were brilliant with 40/20s 2 in the first half one in the 2nd [I was ready to pull my hair out].
Score could've been worse in the first half though, one of the Central Coast players made a run just got pulled down before the line he reached out to ground it and dropped it = )
After that 1st half I'd like to forget I dunno what was said at half-time but it worked because we came out and played some football. Nasso's try was brilliant after a 90m run by Hendy who almost scored himself before just being pulled down. Then Rose barged over to make it Central Coast 22 Wenty 12. 18 minutes in the 2nd half to go.
Central Coast then had the ball on our line, lost it and Kenny Sio grounded the ball ingoal. Now what confused me was it was given a goal line dropout when CLEARLY the Central Coast player had lost it. It should've been a scrum to Wenty. Central Coast then went and scored from the drop out to make it 28-12.
Our no.21 who's name I'm unsure of then made a good break to give the ball to Humble who was over and moved closer to the goal to give himself an easier kick. 28-18.
Central Coast then charged down one of our kicks to give us 6 more and Sammy Aiga was over in the corner.. Hard kick for Humble which he missed 28-22.
Sio is then over right in the corner and Humble has a conversion right on the sideline to level things up. Missed 28-26.
90 seconds to go.. everythings kind of a blur I remember seeing a bunch of bodies go over the try-line and everythings in slow motion until you hear the ref award a try and the crowd is going nuts!!!! Only about 50-75 people there but man we cheered freaking loud
in all of the craziness I didn't even know who scored but the Wenty manager was kind enough to let me know it was Brendan Oake!! Humble converts Wenty 32-28.
Central Coast try the short kick off which fails but they get a penalty. By the time they kick the ball out and get it back siren is gone and they only have one play. They are about 35m out from our line and they kick ahead and outta the whole bunch of bodies I believe it was Mark Hendy who took it and just took the tackle to ensure Wenty win 32-28. Woohoo!!!! I likened the comeback to what the Dogs did against the Cowboys last night [if you saw that game you can imagine the excitement].
Best players.. Our no.25 who's name I don't know either [seriously I listened when they did the team line-up I guess I just zoned out], Manuoakafoa [sp?] made some damn good runs nearly always breaking through, Grayson Goodwin made some good runs, Peter Prime, Mark Hendy and Humble.
Credit to Mark Hendy if has any voice left after the game. He did so well at fullback moving the team around who to go where and all that I reckon they would've heard him across the road :lol:
and favourite memory the lady about 6 benches down from me "hey touchie why don't you teach the linesman the rules" now I'm 90% sure linesman and touchie are the same thing
Oh and some OLD news incase you didn't know. T.Morts is out for the season
