Well, the weekend overtime work that I was apparently getting, that got cancelled. So it goes. Didn't even really think of heading out to Lara for this game, or watching it at a friend's house. The latter would have been a lark, though, sitting on a mate's couch, watching nothing happening because NPL TV had gone bung across most of the streams on one of those weekends when more people than usual would be looking to use it. Some streams were working most weren't, and ours had a funny, old school Netscape Navigator-esque broken image thing going on.
The NPL TV "match centre" key moments videos were working, but that was about it. The social media team (person) wasn't there (ill), there was no radio option, so all we had was a teamsheet, and the good old Futbol24 app. So where there shouldn't have been any angst, what with this being a nothing game (for us), there was indeed angst because we couldn't see what was going on, and whether something cripplingly stupid was going to happen.
As it turned out, after about 35 minutes the stream came on, and we got to watch the tedium play out, complete with a few 21s players sprinkled in for the sake of player development. Two or three more credentialed players thrown on towards the end to get the three points, which got the job done.
So now finally on to the finals, the only thing that matters once you get bundled out of the cup. Minor premiers can keep their plate, and the relegation battle is still only theoretical because of the theoretical second division, though you can still smirk at Bentleigh going down if that's your thing; I think Brunswick Juve going own (theoretically) to NPL 3 is even funnier though.
Next game
Unclear at this point. We have a rest in the first week of the finals. After that we get to play the highest ranked winner from the first week of the finals. So, one of Oakleigh, Melbourne Knights, or Port Melbourne.
Grand final venue news
No mucking about this year - the senior men's grand final will be at Olympic Village. That venue in Plumpton must have been double-booked.
The women's grand final will be at the new home of the Matildas at La Trobe, as a standalone event. Our senior women also get the week off, before playing a sudden death elimination final against Boroondara at Bulleen I think it is.
Final thought
Overheard a phrase this week while listening into court proceedings - that time is the great deflator. You get old, time passes by, and suddenly your reserves of rage aren't what they used to be. And I've to come realise rage was one of the things which used to feed this blog.
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