Barts vs IC2 (A) - 21/02/2025

BLWP 16 - 08 IC2

Ethos burn out has officially hit. 3 matches there in 2 weeks is insanity, I’m sick of the District line, but I will miss the post match Five Guys. My brain is fried.

Thankfully Tp Dan finally learnt how to tell the time and actually managed to arrive in time for the warm up. unfortunately Tp Dan also learnt how to complain excessively about the start time of matches. After what felt like an eternity the match finally started (Tp Dan was finally stopped complaining). Tp Bal won the swim off and drove straight into pit and scored!! Ok, centre ball. Wait their player just immediately scored from about 15m? ok. Thankfully this was only 1 of their two goals this quarter. It’s ok, Tp Bal scored another goal to get us back in the lead. Helsinki found her way into pit D and obviously turned the ball over back into our possession within a millisecond. I feel bad for whoever she marks, they just won’t get to touch the ball during the game. Tp Bal gave a fantastic assist and BCF scored. Tp Dan hammed a shot into the net, as did Tp Peter when he wasn’t forgetting he was outfield and holding the ball with two hands!

First quarter 5-2 to us!!

2nd Quarter

Swim off won by Tp Bal again, where he repeated his win swim off and score!

BCF told the team to “have fun” causing Grunion to bear hug their pit A, making sure to immobilise him by “pulling at his trunks”. He also got sent to the naughty corner at some point which I think was unrelated, but you can never be too sure. IC2s ref/coach decided to eat into the quarter by yapping about something irrelevant (I think he just wanted to waste a bit of time tbh). Wetty was speeding around the pool, again being much more useful in the pool than he is at nonverbal wednesday night griff time. He was speeding up and down on the win and making some fantastic passes. We four more goals this quarter  from BCF, Tp Bal, Tp Dan and Tp Peter.

2nd quarter: 10-3 to bart’s.

short but sweet, quarter 3. knowing that we had a beautiful goal difference, we could relax and have a bit of fun in the pool. Tp Fiona played fabulously, turning the ball over and showing some great awareness of the game. Tp Peter did a great counter and pounded the ball into the top corner of IC2s goal! Grunion had put their pit A into pit prison and did not let the ball go anywhere near his players hand. Tp Peter scored another magical goal and BCF got her hat trick.

quarter 3: 13-5.

Final quarter. we wanted to try out our goal hanging technique from the last game again, but it didn’t quite come fully into fruition. IC2s seemed to know what we were playing at and made sure to leave a player back. Tp Tash had some utterly stunning saves which she quickly fed down into our attack. Helsinki scored a fantastic goal from Pit A position (I’m so happy to see her on the score sheet it’s so well deserved). Tp Aida was eager to show IC2s that she’s a menace in the pool. She will not let her player out of her reach whatsoever!! I was stood on pool side, and suddenly Tp Bal emerged from the depths of the deep end and immediately got sent out? We were all quite confused but apparently you’re not allowed to go underwater in water polo? He returned from the naughty corner and scored a cracker of a goal. In the final minute of the game Tp Dan decided it was now time to play cross bar challenge FOUR TIMES within one attack. After about half a decade, he finally found the back of the net and scored. Relief.

Final quarter 16-8 to Bart’s. God I love winning.

What a great match and well done to everyone! We’re on our up! Special thankyou to Dr Lumpy for coming down to support and table for us!!

Goals:

Tp Balint - 5

Tp Peter - 4

BCF - 3

Tp Dan - 3

Helsinki - 1

PoTM:

Helsinki - for fantastic steals in defence and getting her first lusl goal this season!

DoD:

The scoreboard - for not stopping when Dr Lumpy pressed the time out button.