Last week’s heat certainly got to Nick “The Shouty One” Dalton and he really outdid himself. After a slow build up Nick became increasingly aggressive. An initial coming together between Nick and Dean “Double Dean” Dent resulted in a verbal outburst from Nick starting with “What are you ****ing doing you ****”. Dean doesn’t usually get angry but he went bright red and using all his communications skills told Nick to “*** Off”. This coming together seemed to start a personal battle between Nick and Dean.
This culminated with the last play of the day. Kol was in a good position and just about to take a shot on goal when the battling Nick and Dean totally flattened him. Bikes and players went everywhere. Unfortunately for legal reasons we cannot fully repeat everything that was said at this point. Even I was shocked at the amount of foul language.
An abandonment of the session and a calming down period gave Nick the chance to rethink his actions and came out with the best apology I’ve heard for a long time...”You’re not a ****, you’re a dear friend”. In a post session statement Dean said “It was a ‘legal’ challenge but where I would have usually backed out to avoid an accident. This time I thought bollocks and went in committed”.
Even Psycho star Anthony Perkins isn’t that violent on the polo court.
Unfortunately I can’t think of anything else that happened last week. I think someone scored a goal or something like that.
This week will be different....
This week we are doing a showcase at the Swanland Playing Fields Gala. After last weeks behaviour this could be a bit of a risk for the guys and gals at Swanland as today is a family day. Everyone has promised to be on their best behaviour but peoples reactions in the heat of the moment are always unpredictable.
Come on guys, for one day only can we just....
Calm the **** down!
It looks like after last weeks performance Bryan must now hold the record for the most spectacular crashes in any one session. It seemed as if every time I looked Bryan was on the floor in a tangled mass of bikes. Some incredible crashes Bryan but I think you need to work on your dismount a bit more. At the moment the Judges are scoring you 10 points for the initial crash but only 2 points for you dismount and 1 point for your landing. These are the areas you need to work on or maybe you should just stop falling off.
Last weeks showcase event at Swanland Playing Fields was
a huge success. Just for once we managed to get through a whole session without
a single argument and with very little swearing. Well done everyone.The award for greatest self control must go to Adam who,
for some unknown reason, wanted to fall off his bike every 5 minutes. Even
before we started a match he was laid on his back in the middle of the court
with his bike on top of him. Could it have been the pressure of the occasion,
has the festival season taken its toll or has he just lost it.
