The Tokyo leg of the Firetails pre-tour ended yesterday with two excellent wins.
The format for Sunday followed that of Friday with 2 full-length games, first one at 10:30am against the Japanese women's masters team. We came out with intense man defense which created pressure almost every point. I think the final score was 17-9 (not sure might've been more to the Japanese). Unfortunately Mama and Keah had a collision going for a D coming off a contested stall, Keah has a corked calf.
We were expecting to have a long break before our second game but we were informed by the Japanese that it would be raining at 3:30pm and asked if we could start earlier. Fortunately Crossie managed to negotiate us a 2:15pm start instead of the 1pm time they suggested! So we did our weigh-ins to check we were all hydrating appropriately, had some lunch and then a shortened warm-up before our final game in Japan.
This game was an opportunity for revenge against the Mud/Huck team we lost to yesterday. We came out amped up in the first half and took half 9-7 (?). We didn't always get blocks but the pressure was there. We lost a little bit of focus in the early stages of the second half but after a time-out we pulled through to take the last 3 points of the game winning 17-13. We were only playing with 18 players due to quite a few niggles. The fields we have played on over the last 3 days (Edogawa Sports Grounds) have been very hard, as Shaz mentioned yesterday in some places gravel/rock exposed on the ground. Our bodies are all pretty sore from it and our wonderful physio Rhi has been kept busy.
We eased our aching bodies at an Onsen on Sunday evening. Well, those of us who didn't have gaping wounds, swollen body parts or other issues which stopped us being allowed in.
On Monday we relocate to Kyoto for a couple of days of sight-seeing and some light training. We have been happy with our performance to date on the field (6 wins from 7) and thoroughly enjoying each others company so in a really good position going into worlds.
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Hey 'Tails, great to hear about your adventures. You got to watch out for the flying Molomby. I thought Ash would have warned all you you guys after World Games.
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