BAD Polo vs Massive Cogs

From sarah:

Sunday 13th December, Newington

Game 1: 5-0
Aidan wins the charge and takes the ball to goal and scores. 1-0 to BAD Polo at 5 seconds. Dave makes it 2-0 within the first minute of the game, by powering a shot through John’s rear wheel spokes. A sign of things to come in this fixture it seems…

BAD dominate the start of the game with the majority of action in the Massive Cogs half. As another attack from BAD comes, a shout of “Come on the Wall” from the Cogs camp warns their players to stack up 3 deep in goal and prevent BAD from scoring! It’s effective and gives the Cogs some good breaks.

Brendan gets the third goal on the 5 minute mark, a strike which hits Camerons back wheel and bounces over. Aidan scores a lovely 4th goal at 7′17″, slotted in at an almost impossible angle. Dave repeats his earlier goal by another hard hit, this time going between spokes in Emmet’s rear wheel. Game ends 5-0 at 7′45″

Game 2: 5-2
Aidan takes the charge again in the second game and takes it to the Cogs defence. It’s back to the BAD end within seconds with Emmet having a great shot at Dave. The first two minutes of the game sees both Emmet having another fine shot, and also Cameron almost getting one past Dave. Despite this, it’s BAD who take the first goal again – Brendan scoring at 2′40″.

Emmet equalizes for the Cogs at 4′20″ with a fast air shot which goes through Dave’s wheel. A good goal which they really deserved.

At 5′40″ Aidan puts BAD back in the lead, and Brendan makes it 3-1 with a nicely angled shot at 7′30″. BAD are sharing the goal scoring and it’s Dave’s turn at 9 minutes when his shot hits Emmet’s mallet, spins round the front wheel and trickles over the line!

Excitement at 10′40″ when Brendan takes a shot which lands on Cameron’s chain whilst he his goalkeeping. After a couple of trademark hops, it drops under his bottom bracket in front of the goal line. As Brendan swings round and tries to knock it through, John fortunately pushes it clear.

At 11′25″ Cameron gets one back for the Cogs as he takes the ball almost the whole length of the court and fires it through at great pace. Aidan scores again at 12′30″ to finish of the game 5-2.

Game 3: 5-1
The final game of the fixture sees the Cogs getting the first goal. At 1′15″, John shoots straight through Dave’s bottom bracket at an almost unstoppable speed. Aidan retaliates 30 seconds later with a shot going through ‘The Wall’ via two bottom brackets.

At 3′50″, Brendan takes one of his symbolic strikes and put BAD back in front at the expense of Cameron’s spokes. A ball-shaped hole is left in his wheel and a time-out is called.

It seems to take both teams a while to warm up again after a long time-out. It’s not until the 7th minute when Brendan gets another goal after some excellent passing and communication between the team. Aidan also follows up with another at 8 minutes, after Dave makes space by forcing a hole in The Wall.

Massive Cogs fight back and there are god chances at both ends of the court, but eventually Aidan cements the win for BAD at 10′20″ after slotting a ball in behind a Cog’s back wheel.

Very good games to watch and everyone seemed to enjoy them. All of the Massive Cogs goals (one each) were truly spectacular, but in the end, BAD Polo really show why they are the team to beat in this league!

BAD Polo:

The WALL: