By Wordsmith Entry F
January 23 2007

SUMMARY OF SEASON 2006 – SO FAR……………..

 

For their pre-season training the Saints squad had a go at all sorts of activities in the blazing sunshine at Lusty Head. The robustious pack particularly enjoyed a canter along the beach on their piebald ponies with Chicken progressing to a gallop.

 

The whole squads spirits were insouciant with them playing in the sand while the lascivious female cyber-geeks spent many hours admiring the objects of their virtu on the offy websites’ picturezone.

Everything looked rosy at the nascent of the season, but if only the squad were more prescient of things to come.  The supposititious start to the season was ground to a halt by the turgid condition of Brucies’ and Clarkeys’ joints. Did someone have a machination to make this season a long hard travail?  - Whatever was done would not stanch this misfortune - a virus and yet more injuries meant that many players were unable to gambol around the pitch on match days. Certain referees had to frequently refer to their vade mecum which some fans would have liked to make inhere with the refs’ posterior – the main reasons being that the ref was either to much or too little argus-eyed.

 

The enjoyable win over Bath was tainted by the apocryphal claims of certain fans who unlike anyone else were actually able to understand what Sharky was saying while still wearing his gumshield. Then came the perfidy of the Tiggers match when we scored 2 tries against their nil but still lost because the kickers thought Sharky had told them to play the game bootless! As the season went on it was time for the Autumn Internationals – Oh what a woeful time England had, the crowd at Twickenham went from a roar to a pule and to make matters worse Big Ben Cohen returned with a shoulder injury and a thanks but no thanks from the new coach. The trip to Palma turned out to be try fest and on their visit to us they came away with nil points, perhaps something they would like to efface from their records.  Christmas already and we had a pest problem, but we managed to swat them despite the crowd containing a flibbertigibbet or two, thanks to excesses of festive booze. The less said about the next two games the better. Oh the ups and downs of being a Saint, it’s not always easy and lets hope 2007 has more ups than downs.