Rugby SGIS 2006

By: Nebulous Mood: happy Date: 11/17/2006 15:40:45 Music: anything from Crystal Method

Well SGIS rugby 2006.  2 groups of 5 teams face off to be granted the best high school rugby team in Switzerland.  Housed at the campus of Le Rosay, outside of Geneva, one of the most expensive schools in Switzerland (can you say 130,000chf a year).  Well last year’s team, which was made up of mostly seniors, which made up most of our forwards, won last year with out losing a single game the entire season.  Ok so a hell of a lot to live up to.  This year most of our forwards are 10^th graders with not much experience.  Our backs are good but need to stop smoking.  But in general in terms of body weight we have a really small team.  Ok so we have been playing ok and won a small tournament earlier in the season but we weren’t really sure how well we would do.  We know that we all would give it all but we didn’t know how far that would bring us.  So on Saturday we had 2 games and than 2 more on Sunday for the prelims and then a possible 2 more if we got into the finals. 

But don’t let me get ahead of my self.  So we drove down to Geneva on Friday after school.  Last years team had a few people kicked from the team for how crazy they partied during one of the trips.  So anyways we were all thinking of just keeping things calmer and under control this year cause it could end up getting Rugby banned from school sports.  Well after a shity dinner there wasn’t much to do so we went on a great search for alcohol of any kind.  Well that proved unsuccessful.  It was like we were in Assholeville or something (we were in the French part of Switzerland) the gas stations didn’t even sell anything.  So we headed back to the youth hostel and found out that everyone was down by the lake.  By the lake there was this little bar that we bought out.  We drank almost all their caned beer a bottle of tequila, a bottle and a half of vodka, some bailies and some other shit that was fricking hard core.  I didn’t get really tipsy but it was a good time with the team.  Some people went out clubbing after and weren’t back till 4 something but hay they paid the price. 

The games the next day were good, our first game was 37-0 for us and the second some where around 18-0 to us.  I only ended up playing around 10 mins or so cause I got put in at the end of the one match and then pulled my hamstring in the second. 

We didn’t do much that night cause we were all tired.  We went in to town for dinner but didn’t stay long.  When we got back we just sat and talked and listened to music.  Some people got hella high and then my friend got high off his pain meds for his busted shoulder which was really funny.

The second day we had 2 games defiantly and up to 2 more if we made it past the prelims.  I started during the first game that day and was going fine until I tackled this guy in a wired way and made that pulled hamstring one heck of a lot worse and went out just before halftime.  We still won that game but we took our first try against us that match 15-5.  I was off for the next game which we also won by 2 or 3 tries.  This put us at the top of tournament in terms of points.  So we had to play the second team from the second bracket.  I decided to play again and I wasn’t doing too bad, I couldn’t run as fast but my leg seemed ok.  Than I get this great break down the wing and the only one guy to stop me.  Well the French fuck doesn’t even try to tackle me properly but just high tackles me right in front of the ref.  We did at least get the penalty and we shortly after we scored a try but after that I couldn’t chase the kicks so I went off.  We won this game something like 15-0 or something.  The final though wasn’t even funny.  We had to play JLB who’s pack was easily twice the size as ours.  Also this is a high school tournament yet 3 of their players had kids and the one guy, their captain, had a 3 year old who was watching the game.  We knew that things were going to be tough so we went out and gave it all.   We won by just a conversion with the final score 7-5.  I wish I had played the final but still we had won.  That now gave us our second year as SGIS champions.  

I should have pics up at some point but for now you can check out this one from earlier in the season.

http://pbspace.com/Nebulous/pic/4702/