Winter League 4 (3 was cancelled) Sunday 14th Feb

Much delayed writeup of last Winter League... Sorry.

The fourth and final Winter League of the season took place on Sunday 14th Feb. As we set off the weather was dry, cold, and cloudy, and we were keen to get into our first game vs Curve.

Curve is one of the better teams in division 2, and they were seeded 2nd to our 7th seed, so we knew it'd be a tough game. What we hadn't predicted was that there would only be 6 of us at the pitch 10 minutes before the game… Cue frantic phone calls, much pondering of sanity, and significant thoughts of ironman. It transpired that Nick Z and Joy had removed themselves from a bus that was going the right way, and decided to start walking in the wrong direction. Pope was simply AWOL and later claimed to have been confused by the alleged existence of Roehampton within London. (He thought it was near Rio and was looking forward to staying for the Carnivale after the matches.) Anyway, Will arrived in time for the game, so we had 7 players, and took to the field to throw the disc at the opposition. They swiftly gave it back, we ran around a little, and then someone ran over a line and caught the disc for the first point. PAF 1 – Curve 0. Great start to the game.

Curve then decided that they were going to win, and went on to take the half 7 – 2. We were still down a Pope and Nick and Joy were lost in the wilds of London. So we grabbed a drink, and went back to playing ironman.

Generally our flow was really good, and I think we put together a nice set of passes in every point before someone got a bit too confident and threw it away. (And it wasn't always me thanks.) Unfortunately, they were the stronger team, so took it 13 – 4, but I felt that we'd make them work for every point, and that they couldn't just relax and win easily.

Our next game was against Ovathrow (a team we beat in Winter League 2), so we knew that we had the opportunity to take the game to them and make them really work for any points. Bonus for us was noticing that they were missing their star player, which always makes things easier. Anyway, the game was fairly unmemorable, but we played decent solid ultimate not making too many simple mistakes, and generally putting the disc home when we got near the endzone. Final score was something like PAF 9 - Ovathrow 5.

Final Game vs Curve 2

So having given Curve a tough game in our first outing, we thought that Curve 2 would be an easier prospect... Unfortunately it turned out that although Curve was the technically better team, Curve 2 had us for stamina and speed pretty much across their whole line meaning that we'd have to work extra hard. We started out fairly well, and traded the first couple of points to about 2-2, but then they took the game away from us for the next 5 to take the half. PAF were left feeling demoralised and we were unable to get more than a couple of passes together before Curve stepped in to get a D. Despite the feeling of defeat noone gave up, and everyone kept on playing to the best of their ability, not just giving up on D and leaving their marks to get away on O. Towards the end of the game we resorted to huck and D tactics, which saw us score a few more points, but Curve 2 were just too far ahead, and we weren't able to convert enough into points. Final score 13 - 4.

Despite only winning one game of the day, we played two tough teams and held our ground really well against the first team, and then again against the second.

I was very proud of PAF for slugging away in the last game of the day with the rain coming down, and little chance of winning the game everyone just kept going.

Anyway, a great day of ultimate, and if you missed it...

Just you wait until Summer League. (Or Mixed Tour with POKE!)

Nick

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