Sunday 8th March saw Hill-Jills take to the road all the way up to grey and gloomy Aberdeen, the ladies soon brightened the day with a ginormous 75-0 victory over the experienced Aberdeenshire Quines team. The beautiful, if slightly hugnover, travelling support made a massive difference on the day, motivating and encouraging the ladies, while reenacting the amateur dramatics performed by the baby-faced referee at every stoppage in play.
The Dawg got her bosh on and severely took care of the Aberdeen winger who kept coming back for more. Sneaking round the side of a scrum she ran into the forearm smash and bounced right back off again. Photographic evidence is available…
No 10 Jules controlled the game releasing the speedy backs and mobile backrow who made the most of possession behind the defence, quickly converting possession into points. And remember what points mean? Points mean prizes! Well…they might mean prizes if we get a squajillion bonus points before the end of the season to boost us to the top of the league.
Jules also cracked open the classic dummy-to-no-one move, always a winner in touch, to cross the line for a few tries of her own. Caroline was solid at scrum half, and remained a little frightening on the bus trip home…but scary in a good way. Honest.
Joanie, now firmly out of retirement was on fire at back row, while newbie Kat put in a few good tackles, Wilko was solid in the contact, and Steph and Manners put in a good shift en route back from injury.
Good team play all round really, showing good shape and consistency in the absence of the internationalists who were absent on 6 Nations duty.
Now to the reeeeeal fun, a trip to Asda, with the bonus of a staff discount card, for some juice for the bus trip home, and on the bus the fun began. With some tunage from Jules dubious iPod playlist, and some singsong fun closer to Glasgow a good time was had by all. A mini bus court saw some punishments for bad behaviour. Some quite unforgivable in the humble opinion of newsteam- such indiscretions will be noted and dealt with at a later date, ahem….Steph and Kat.
Banter continued into the night back at Fortress Hughenden. Was good to see ex-enforcer Gail, and old-coach John on the bus trip, along with regular number one fan Lois.
Next Ladies outing is this Friday night, 27th March, at Fortress Hughenden, KO 1930. Some people say there’s some game on in Maryhill that night, but I heard Hughenden is the place to be. Be there or be square…
