boston demons....

barkingspider · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: boston demons....

Boston Pat and myself finally took the plunge and went to an intra club match at bunker hill.
if all goes well, we'll be playing next year. that is if the training dosn't kill us first....

http://www.bostondemons.com/

note the blue western bulldogs football in boston pats hand.
got it at the bulldogs shop for $20. made in india! tongue

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Boston Pat · Shaun Higgins Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 65

you will see me trying to stay out of the way in some of those pics.

We did not partake in the game, but the coach enlisted our help as runners (water boys - lol!)

seemed like a good group of guys and as the spider said I hope to be able to have a run with them next season for sure.

Superfan · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject:

That's fantastic! Are the guys who play mainly ex-pat Aussies?
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amnesiac · Scott West Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 1897

Nice work guys. You might want to put in a pre-season to boost your fitness for your first pre-season!

Keep us updated.
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barkingspider · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject:

yes. we met a few aussies.

the goalie was one of them and the captian addressing the squad at the end of the game is an aussie, the coach and quite a few players. a lot of americans too.

thanks amnesiac. absolutely pre season training needed for both of us.

got a game coming up at the same place this saturday against philidelphia. they were supposed to turn up last saturday but pulled out.
this saturday coming will be a proper match
the scary part is i hear it's gonna be around 90 fareinheit and humid.

hey look! it's brad johnson at the bottom left come to visit ha ha ho ho......we wish....

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bjag · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject:

Thats fantastic!! Nice to see some doggie jumpers Sad

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barkingspider · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:05 am Post subject:

hehe two more on the way...
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Boston Pat · Shaun Higgins Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 65

that big group pic is a bunch of teams from around the states. The Bulldogs are from Denver.

barkingspider · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:52 am Post subject:

maybe we should move to denver Pat tongue

nah, we got a job to do here..
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amnesiac · Scott West Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 1897

Found the following fitness plan on the Boston Demons website.

barkingspider · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:45 am Post subject:

amnesiac · Scott West Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 1897

That comes out to be a lovely 32 degrees. Well lovely if your playing cricket maybe. Hope there's a nice cool breeze.

Good luck with it and we expect a full run down on Sunday (if you can get out of bed)!
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barkingspider · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject:

no problema amnesiac will do. supposed to be humid too. yuk.

i run 4 miles 4 times a week up and down hills, rain hail or shine and i was sore as ten men the next day. couldn't figure out why. i'm sure boston pat was too. we pretty much ran all day and kicked the football around in between breaks so we didn't really stop.

the reason methinks for that is you are using a different group of muscles. eg: bending and scooping up the ball, taking marks, rapid bursts of running, etc so those muscles are not used to it.

anyway, hopefully a bit better this sunday....
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Boston Pat · Shaun Higgins Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 65

I had my boys (9 & 7) in tow so I didn't pitch in much. But Hell, Mark was a machine. It ain't glamorous work, but running water on a day like today was essential and He did a super solid job.

Dees crushed the Hawks from Philadelphia.

barkingspider · Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: VICTORY for the dees...

yes

they did well on a blazingly hot day!

dees: 16 goals something
hawks: 4 goals something

no scoreboards at these games and i was too buggered to chase down the coach. plus he gets asked too many questions anyway...

well, it was definately a home ground advantage with lots of dees on the bench. the poor old hawks from philly only had about 4 and with one injury in to the 2nd quater i think it was and he had to come off and not take any more part in the game.

the dees got the jump on them early not giving the hawks much room to breathe and kept the pressure up througout the game. acurate kicking and good marking got the ball in to the dees forward line which usually resulted in a goal. agressive tackling and sheparding helped the cause too.
they had about 8 or so players on the interchange and coach "skills" was rotating them on a regular basis througout the game. it's a luxury the hawks didn't have.
it was a very impressive effort given the conditions

the hawks looked flat having just gotten off a plane from philly and not having much time to get used to the stifling heat. they looked a bit rattled.
with only 4 on the interchange, i imagine all the players were tired and take nothing away from them, they tried hard but they would have been pretty worn down by the last quater.

havn't got names for credits as i don't know many at this stage..

i guess today, every player will be sore and drained. i know i am and all i did was run water. plus the fact that i'm as old as a goat dosn't help either tongue

yesterdays high was 97 farenhight (did i spell that correctly?) 36 celcius.
luckily the humidity wasn't too bad.

boston pat and the boys and myself played kick to kick during the breaks and thoroughly enjoyed it. who knows, his boys might become star american afl players one day. :clap:

they're good kids
he took some excellent pictures too. will post later if it's ok with him. (copywrite you know tongue

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anyway, here are mine. not very good as they were taken in between water fills. more like spray and pray shots..

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