What a night!!!!!! It was absolutely inspirational in every way!
OK.....so we didn't win....but MAN DID WE TRY BLOODY HARD!!!!
Super quick digression..for those of you who have not been subjected to my rantings about rugby...I generally barrack for the Bulldogs and the Panthers. But since we have lived in Townsville for almost 3 years, I of course have to show a little allegiance to the local Cowboys. We don't go to many games here in Townsville, but we DO try to get to Bulldogs and Panthers games when they venture up here.
So back to the game. Cowboys were giving us a HUGE hiding! Seriously, 38 - 10, twenty minutes towards the final siren Cowboys supporters were heading for the gates confident their team were victorious.
Then they took Jonno Thurston off and it started!! In twelve minutes the Bulldogs scored 4 tries!! They should have scored the equaliser try to make the match go to "golden point" and they tried really hard...it just wasn't to be, but it was right down to the final siren though! Geeesh was it an exciting game!!
It was funny, earlier in the day they had played clips of my hero up there Big Willy Mason stating that the Cowboys were a 2 horse team, and that if Thurston didn't play, the team wouldn't be very competitive against the Bulldogs. Then during the game, just before they took Thurston off the field, they showed Big Willy's sad, beaten face on the big screen for all the Cowboys fans to jeer at. It gave me great satisfaction to see little Willy Tonga burst over the try line less than a minute after Thurston decided to leave the field for a rest!! Then 4 tries in 12 minutes??!! Kinda made Big Willy's point dontya think?
So we had a great night...Im not one of those "my team lost so the night sucked" kinda people...I respect a good game and great sportsmanship...I thank El Masri, the rest of the Bulldogs team...but especially Big Willy Mason for sticking around waaaaay after a game that they lost, in a town not their own, to sign waaaaaay too many autographs and get photographs taken with die hards like us....THAT my friends is a sign of great sportmanship and I appreciate the time they spent that other teams and players have not.
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