MT2 : Burton

Burton indeed - home of Martons. Directly opposite the tournie site was indeed Martons brewery, as Convoy told us many a time. Also the Pedigree was a lot nicer than the carling.
Friday Night saw Convoy drive Nik and I to the site in the Beast. The stupid Sat Nav put us on the M6 Toll, which we were pretty sure we didn't want to be on. Convoy asked us what we should do with the M6 Toll, as we were approaching a junction with the A42 (I think). Nikki piped up:

"Make a Hat"

was the reply.

This cost us £9.00...

Anyway, so we got to the site, and found the camping, which was right in front of the social club where we had both Friday and Saturday parties. We found the rest of Bacon and set up the Blue Palace MkII. Then it was time for a pint. We gathered around a picnic bench on the veranda and relaxed. It wasn't long before we got to playing Remi's game. I think this was the perfect game to play as we had a couple of new recruits in Amy and Ant. This game got us all relaxed and having fun. Mostly the game involved Convoy not computing what Michael could be, and also a lot of Littlerob being a Biscuit.

Convoy also managed to give himself a Biscuit injury, with his Thumb -





We also were that loud annoying drunk team that keeps everyone awake in the evening, which I do apologise for (if anyone ever finds their way here ) . I don't enjoy having to try and sleep through other teams being loud and silly, or mildy xenophobic!

Well, our efforts in the drinking on Friday, did hinder us slightly on Saturday, but not as much as only having 20 legs between us. We had a 9-30 start against Curve, our friends from Clissold Park. This was always going to be tricky, they have some talented handlers and fast runners. It was a tight game with both teams having periods of greatness - I think the lead switched several times as we would go ahead a couple then they would etc. We ran out of legs and lost 13-12 i think

Immediately we played Gallahs - who we had a fantastic game against in Brighton. They were missing Berry and Si Weeks - not necessarily in play, but just weren't there. They played well in this game, as did we, sometimes. Yet another very close game and they ran out 13-11 winners.

After our break, we came up against the youngsters from the Wirral, Catch Those. Yet another team who felt our drunken wrath the night before, yet another close game. Despite going 5-1 up, we found ourselves down going into the end of the game. We battled back and took the win 13-12. This game was memorable for one of their louder players not knowing the rules particularly well, but knowing he was right, no matter what was said to him. Big Rob had a Strip call incredulously contested, despite the disc ending up behind Rob, a few yards away - very difficult to actively do. I'm pleased we won, but I'm now not pleased I didn't follow up my rules discussion with their loud player, as I know he is wrong and I should have taken the rules over to him. Despite this, many of their other players were fun to play against and had some great plays.

Given we finished early, Bacon took the opportunity to hit Burton early for some food. After getting rejected from a fantastically amazing part Medieval English Steak house/part Mexican restaurant, that was empty - and could not possibly cope with 10 people at once. Burton restaurants are mental. We also stopped outside quite a swish Italian, where the waiter appeared as if by magic at the window. spooky. We settled on a generic chain style pub with normal pub food. It were alright.

We made our way back to the campsite and sat around chatting for a couple of hours before finding our way inside as Tom Styles And Steve G began their evening's DJ set. All I can say is that it rocked. It was everything you need in a good night's music, lots of indie, bit of ska, some cheese and a crowdsurfing Big Rob. Haven't been that sweaty on a dancefloor for a long time!

we hit the hay relatively early on Sunday morning (1ish) but not before testing out how flexible Big Rob's pop up tent was. Definite bundle possibilities for when he's in there...

Our first two games on Sunday were back to back - we started against the Trigger Happy-esque Meat Pie. I do enjoy playing against these guys - Shunter, Paddy & Huggy always enjoy themselves and it was a fun game, despite us being schooled. We did pull out some new plays - the Big Bang and the patented 6 -1-6, which almost worked!

Next game was our old enemy THerd (2). We hadn't played them for a while, and their recruitment drives have clearly worked a lot better than ours. They played us off the park, as our legs were gone, with the loss of dave to a hangover and sam pulling up with blisters/a strained whinging muscle ;o) It was a fun game., we worked it round their zone easy enough, we just didn't have the concentration to take it to them. I had a shocker of a drop - Nik threw me a nice roll curve dump on the line which I'd toed in for the catch. I knew litterob was so free for the swing and it was in his hands before it was in mine. I tried to blame it on the girls from The Brown, but I don't think they bought it...

So - we now had the joy of playing for 27th, lower than were we started MT1 unfortunately. However we took the decision that with numerous tweaks and injuries and the risk of more we would forfeit. Mustard were cool with it, but I'm sure we'd have all loved to play, with more numbers. Luckily our decision meant we were on the road when our game was due to play, and the rain set in, so that was a bonus.

All in all we played well enough to win more games/by more, though we clearly traded the wins in for 2 cracking nights of fun. The banter's always good with Bacon. Our newbies Amy and Ant fitted in well, and we'd love to keep them playing with us - both were great - good running, great grabs, good d and extremely calm with the disc. brilliant.

I think we set the tone for the weekend with Remi's game and the mayhem caused by it! Bring on Birmingham in 2 weeks...