Wazee overwhelm Black Panthers

A hard fighting Black Panthers went down 61 - 21 to the Wazee. The Wazee walked in 4 easy tries in the first quarter. However, the second quarter saw Black Panthers stepping up their defence and hitting back with a try of their own. The Black Panthers showed good skills and aggression forcing the Wazee to change their laid back approach and work hard for possession. Although obviously unfit the Wazee were just too good for the ladies and limited them to just two more tries in the last quarter while piling in more of their own.

Jim Middleton's superb hooking starved the Panthers of ball in the scrum and his game was punctuated by galloping runs down the touchline before offloading to the winger then standing in that same spot (with his hands on his waist) recovering his breath and waiting for the ball to get back to him before he would set off again, causing havoc in the Panthers' defence. Jim was understandably knackered after and game and took about 10 minutes (aided by a few large gulps of restorative Bell lager) before he could talk to anyone. The Wazee named Jim their Man of the Match. Captain Alex Kalimugogo played 8th man as if he was trying out for the Uganda Rugby Cranes - his game was characterised by good 8th man picks, batting hapless Panthers out of his way on his rampaging runs that were sprinkled with the occasional side step. The traumatised ladies unanimously named him Man of the Match for the Wazee. Bobby Musinguzi suffered the ignominy of being the only player to be yellow carded in the game while Solomon Ssendigya, David Kirabira and Ramsey Olinga shared the gong for the most tackled and most fun to tackle Wazee. Kasasa's dummies were not bought and Mark Kyagaba was completely bamboozled by Brenda Kayiyi's sidestep. Brenda was playing at centre (12) but she was all over the pitch and her shuddering tackles stopped the Wazee in their tracks and her attacking game was brilliant. Small wonder that the Wazee unanimously named her Woman of the Match for the Black Panthers.

However, despite winning by such a large margin, the Wazee were impressed by way the Black Panthers played and have pledged to be available for more games next year. A second fixture has been tentatively set for January 16th 2009.

A few post match quotes from the Wazee:

Mark Kyagaba 'It's good that we had many players and could do rolling substitutuions otherwise we would be embarrased by these kids and playing the game in quarters has been helpful too.'

Sam Ahamya 'You ladies made a mistake agreeing to play in quarters. The quarters allowed the Wazee to recover. If the game had been in halves you might have won'.

Solomon Ssendigya ' The game that was!! Jim galloped like a 16year old spring chicken, the old foxy was up to his old tricks, mbalu re-invented the laws of the scrum and Kyagaba was left at 'sixes and sevens' by that STEP!! Totally priceless! To Helen and the girls, well done and keep working hard, to the absentees: Issa, Andrew,Nathan, Martin,Gumz, Arthur, Ham,William,Roger,Jonah,Paul, you gotta pay big for the 'gang' to repeat the performance!'

Herbert Wafula 'Despite the score, you ladies played a great game of rugby. Keep it up and don't become complacent'.

Ramsey Olinga 'You ladies hardened on us in the second quarter. Our gender was being threatened. We had to up our game and forget that you are women and play hard'.

Brian Makalama 'You played a great game. You actually scored 3 tries against us!'