Nine Brocs hit France!

A few weeks ago nine intrepid young players from the Broccoli crew (and Yiv!) stretched their legs (and their livers) on the windswept beaches of Southern France. We flew over with the plan of partying hard, playing harder and having a bit of a laugh. We achieved all of the aforementioned but were absolutely skanked by the ol' weather.

Day One saw us win 4 games out of 4 beating Monkey Foo 7-1 , Wizards 5-1, Disterics 11-1 and finally Friselis 9-1. Each of the games was played in a gale and with the pitches set 'up wind - down wind' it was often like playing in a Rugby meets Frisbee type game, throwing for position. Still, the craic was mighty, the all-important in between games beers were tough at first but tasty and we were all playing pretty damn well so we had no complaints. Except maybe the sand in the eye business, that was just sore.



Anyway, we partied away after a great game of Pirate's Cove - if you havent played it get involved in a game soon. Beware Swab the Deck though. The main loser was Luan who not only lost repeatedly but also managed not to play the game right either. By the time we made it to the party we were a few sheets to the very strong wind. The ol' party wasn't quite kicking but our full Hawaiian costumes, superb dancing,crates of beer and giddiness soon whipped up a good storm and the Belgians (just waiting for the catalyst!) were soon running amok.Ended up having a qualitae night.



The next morning a captains meeting was called and much to everyones disappointment (and surprise) the tournament was abandoned!The winds had got to the stage where it was hard to stand still let alone throw, run or catch.All the shops and restaurants were closing, the lines to mark the pitches wouldnt stay in the ground and they'd nowhere to source electricity from.So there was a vote and we were awarded Spirit! :) we were given a deadly sports bag/suitcase jobby, tonnes of t-shirts,a bottle of pastise and two French comics (which Oisin was very excited about).

The rest of the day was spent lounging, eating and finally drinking again. A big game of kings rounded off the weekend nicely before our fun trip home. Congrats to Oisin who won MVP for huge throws and clever D all day Saturday, and to Marko who's drunkeness and love of sand bagged him team MSP. Once again ESIS came, saw and came again.Well played and...keep it up! :)

The ESIS team was : Al, Rob, Luan, Niall, Softy, Marko, Oisin, JD, Yiv & Fishbox.