CROCKS FALL TO TIGERS!
February 5, 2015
SEVEN OF THE VETERANS OF TH4 TURNED OUT AT TAMWORTH DESPITE SEVERAL SUFFERING FROM PREVIOUSLY SUSTAINED INJURIES BEFORE THEY LOST THE FIRST LEG OF THE HANDICAP CUP FIRST ROUND 81-60.
STARTING 30-0 UP TH4, WHO HAD DAVIDE NICOLINI ( ROLLED ANKLE) AND RICKY HEWITT (BROKEN FINGER) PLAYING THROUGH THE PAIN BARRIER, WENT FURTHER AHEAD AT 39-2, BUT AFTER RICKY WENT DOWN HEAVILY AND TOOK NO FURTHER PART IN THE GAME, THE SIX WEREFIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE.
THEN DAVIDE FOULED OUT, DAVID SANCHEZ PULLED UP WITH A KNEE AND BACK TWIST AND MIKE MADDOX TWEAKED A KNEE , LEAVING THE INJURED TO LIMP THEIR WAY TO THE END, BY WHICH TIME IT WAS DAMGE LIMITATION IN READINESS FOR THE SEDCOND LEG ON 2ND MARCH.
CREDIT TO THE TEAM, BUT TO OLEG, ROGER AND CHUCKLER FOR GETTING THROUGH TO THE BUZZER UNSCATHED.