Ringers vs Regulars

This has officially been the hardest week to get ten players. Gordo is trying to punt his car tonight, Martie is in London, Stu's toe is still on the mend, Karl is waiting for waters to break, William hurt his back at DIY, Scott's carrying an injury from last week, Steve, Liam, Brad, Craigo, Ponto and everyone else who has ever played for us are all unavailable. Expect, that is, Paul, Grant and Allan. Paul and Grant played last week and Allan has played a couple of times over the years - he's one of Ponto's mates and they play their own game every Thursday - so thanks to all of those guys for stepping back in.

That still left us two short but as luck would have it, one of my mates Dave "Wilson" Wilson has only just returned to Glasgow after a few years in the wilderness of London so he's in. Also, another one of my friends, Andy "Hoody" Hood (not to be confused with Scott's Andy, Andy Armour) is a fives player and has professed an interest in playing in our game. I keep on forgetting this but luckily I remember this week and even more luckily, Andy was able to play tonight at very short notice.

I've known Wilson since 1988 but I don't think I've ever seen him play football, only rugby (which he was not too shabby at in his day), but knowing Dave's natural level of fitness and absolute self belief I'm sure he'll be handy enough. Andy plays fives quite regularly and by his own admission is "not bad" which I reckon is a polite way of saying "I'm frickin' awesome at this game".

So not having seen out two new players play, I decided to just to regulars vs ringers and we'll see how it turns out. If the teams seem ridiculously one sided (but with the defensive work of Paul and Grant I doubt it) we can change them around.