Well What a weekend I have just had, it has been absolutely fantastic...
Met up with 3 Great Gents and enjoyed a weekend packed full of Rugby League action...
The weeked started on Friday, when I got on a train from good ole Yeovil to Cardiff, a nice boring train journey took place, not much really happend along that... Once I was in Cardiff, I had to meet up with Tim and Dan whose trains were coming in a bit later than mine, Tim was the first to arrive closely followed by Dan...
This is where the first Task of the weekend took place, in finding where Matt worked... So off we went with our massive heavy bags to find Matt's shop, (Good Job I checked where it was first). We eventually found it, and to our suprise and possibly Matt's, he was stood by the door almost as if he was waiting for us to arrive... We were able to drop our bags off there, the next stop was a wonder around cardiff in search for a pub to sit down and chat, this was of course just Dan, Tim and Myself as Matt had to work...
Once Matt had finished we met up with him at the shop, and then walked back to Casa d'Matt. Tim cooked that evening a fantastic Spag Bog and it was bloody gorgeous (Cheers Mate)... Then we sat down to watch a bit of rugby, which was short lived as we had no beer... so off to Tesco's, where we stocked up on Beer, and a HUGE Cream Cake...
We had a good game of Terrorties in the park that evening which was a bloody good laugh, learnt that I couldn't kick for **** and Tim had a radar that caught nearly every ball that came his way... during the end we decided to run it, this is where I sidesteped Matt, to score lol fun times...
Then it was back to Matt's for some Pro Evo 5, Rugby 06 and Brian Lara Cricket...
Some great games of Pro Evo went on, with Tim being crowned the champ of the tournament... the cake was then cut into some huge ass slices and scoffed...
Saturday arrived and it was the first day of Millenium Magic... Matt went off and did some work in the morning while the rest of us slobbed about for a bit before walking into Cardiff to watch some of the Man United vs Man City game... We met up with Matt at 1.30 when he finished and went to grab some food at Pizza Hut, where we met up with lovely Graeme whom flogged us some Cheesy Bites with our 2 large pizzas... (very very very camp)
And then it was down to the Millenium Stadium for the first game of Rugby League... Catalans Vs Harlequins, it didn't look like it was going to be a good game on Paper, but was one of the better games of the weekend really enjoyable the crowd weren't too much behind them tho... The next game was the grudge match that had been mooted all weekend as the game to watch, this was the Hull FC vs Hull KR, after Paul Cooke leaving Hull FC and moving to Hull KR just a couple of weeks ago the tensions were defiently there... Matt met a lovely gentlemen who poked him in the face a couple of times, and also enjoyed having mens head in his groin... rather weird person... (Hull FC fan say no more) it was a good battle and the underdog side winning the battle, which made it even more enjoyable... The final game of the day was the big one for Dan more than anyone else St Helens vs Wigan... this was a local derby that really got the tensions going, but the Saints (my adopted side) soon started to take control of the game, apart from a final couple of minutes come back from wigan, they were no real threat... The best part of this game was the mocking on the Wigan fans (Mutants as they were refered to)...
A Fantastic day and a great way to get into the game... We rushed back to Matt's place to get changed and ready to go out... this is where the evening gets a bit patchy, someone will fill in the blanks tho... We went to Walkabout in Cardiff, which was an interesting place... During the night there was a powercut and I managed to get a chant of DER DER DER DER DER DER, going round the whole place which was very impressive... There was nearly the customary punch up, but it didn't evolve to anything...
We walked back to Matt's and Spent ages chatting in the evening...
Sunday was a case of kind of recovering from the night before, which wasn't as heavy as was first though... We were a bit later moving the morning, after challenging Matt to a game of Pro Evo, the PS2 then decided to break
which meant I couldn't complete my thrashing of him on it... Once we got moving we went and had a chinesse all you can eat at China China, which was bloody nice, and off to watch the Rugby...
We were a bit late for the first game, which was Huddesfield vs Wakefield, we didn't miss much very very poor game, Wakefield should of been shot to be honest they were that bad... After this game we decided to move to the top tier to get a different angle and it didn't really matter where we were sat to be honest... Salford vs Warrington was an interesting game, but the classed shined through from Warrington, who ripped a sorry Salford apart...
The final game of the weekend was Leeds vs Bradford, which was without a doubt the best game of the weekend, it had it all the chase and the skill and the photo finish (or so it should of been) Leeds chased the game right the way through, and then after a couple of poor decisions they managed to win it just as the hooter went...
We came out of the Millenium shocked but fully entertained, to find it was ******* it down with rain... so walked back to Matt's place and got totally soaked... when back at Matt's we decided to order a Domino's Pizza, once we found out where the nearest one was... While we were deciding what to order we watched an Turtles episode which was great... also attempted to try and fix matt's PS2 without any success... We eventually ordered pizza and waited for the pizza guy to come, when he did he had forgotten our 2 bottles of coke, and left to get them.. The rest of the evening was spent watching family guy episodes and talking about rugby and tramps...
Monday, was the end of our weekend, we eventually got packed up and headed off to Cardiff, said our goodbyes to Matt, and slowly all drifted off on our own little paths...
But all in all a fantastic weekend of rugby and friendship
So Thanks Guys for a Great Weekend...