Match Report Australia V Iran 29/7/13 (5th game of U21 Asian Championship)
Controversy surrounded tonights game vs Iran.
At stake for Australia was the opportunity to guarantee a worse case scenario of finishing 2nd in Pool A and given the players brilliant game shape they were firm favourites to win.
With this tournament supposedly being hosted in Australia, the Wombat King was seething that they had to fly to Tepapa which is near Wellington in NewZealand.
One assumes that the Manager of the Porirua team, Maanonu, is a Kiwi sheep shearer living in Australia, but whom whilst having his team registered in Australia, some how found a loop hole to enable his team to play their home games in New Zealand.
Tic Tac who had worked hard to redeem himself after being stood down for disciplinary reasons a few weeks ago, might again be in trouble this time for trying to break David Boons record for drinking beers whilst on a plane trip.
Whilst Tic Tac didn’t quite set the record, in his defence the flight to NZ was a bit shorter than the flight Boony took to the UK.
Tip off as had been the custom, went to the Duke and like clockwork Bath Water threaded a pass to Tic Tac, only for him to miss his first shot 18 seconds into the game.
2 and a half minutes into the game and Tic Tac was 0 from 4 with the one turn over, and Australia was 6 nil down.
After vomiting during a time out, Tic Tac remained on court and whilst he was getting scored against, the rest of the Australian team did settle a little bit with the Duke sinking a free throw and the Combover hitting a 2.
It was about this time that an international incident transpired that nearly brought the 2 countrys to the brink of war.
After innocently asking the Iranian Scout Mr Alireza7, who was on game chat, how they were managing to restrict Tic Tacs shooting (which was 0 from 6), a communication mix up took place where I took offence to Mickyster interjection that he should have started Sacks at SF and in the seconds I took to reply with “at least it wasn’t the “Truth” “, our Iranian friend had commented that he couldn’t say anything (about game tactics).
It took several minutes to explain to our Iranian official that the “Truth” was a nickname of a SF in the Australian Under 21squad, and was not a jibe about his honesty.
With tensions between the 2 countrys eased, attention turned back to the basketball game where Iran had gone to quarter time with an 18 point to 11 lead.
Last edited by Sid Vicious at 7/29/2013 9:34:45 AM