Life is grand

9 tag rugby games later and The Shellakybookys show how much fun they had. We beat the Wallace Warriors last night and claimed the Grade C Bowl cup for 2006.

We have all had a great few weeks in the ITRA league.

As you can see we took some beatings but began to start winning with 4 straight wins at the end. A pity the final two games were not league games (one was a semi-final and the last was the final) as we would have posted higher on the league had they counted.

All the same we had a blast and will be back next year to challenge for the top cup.

The team from the TSSG will have to figure out what to do next as we will miss our weekly practice and game.

Thanks to the ITRA and other organisers for a great event.

Last night the Shelekabookys played their first mixed-social Irish Tag Rugby Association game down in Waterpark, Waterford against the Sun Life team. We lost (10-0) but had a really good time. We had trained only twice and only two of us on the team had ever played Rugby before.

One thing I learnt was that you have no chance without boots. On wet Irish grass you either go spinning off the field as you go full tilt in runners (takkies for us Saffas) or you end up only going at 50% to avoid slipping. A couple of the lads on the Sun Life team had boots and could dodge and weave around us with ease.

Our next game is this coming week and it should be even better.