COWHC Men's 4s vs Chertsey Thames Valley Men's 2s - 10th Mar 2018

We apologise to viewers who have tuned in to see their regular episode of The 4th Team. This has been postponed until a later date, and in a change to the planned schedule we will now be showing our movie premiere:

STAR COWS - The Forth Awakens

Adam Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister THIRD DIVISION has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed. With the support of the REBELS, General Netherway leads a brave RESISTANCE. He is desperate to find Adam and gain his help in restoring peace and justice to the galaxy. The General has sent his most daring troops on a secret mission to Croydon, where an old ally has discovered a clue to Adam's whereabouts...

The Chertsey Thames Valley (CTV)brigade of the evil Third Division had marched into the Monks Hill sector looking to inflict another defeat on the Rebels. We had other ideas however.

Under the brave leadership of Rey Netherway, the team went through a full warm up and was ready to do battle on the dunes of Quest Academy. With the backline being marshalled by Han Maundrell, C3P-Hornsby, and Poe Grimsdale, we blitzed the opposition from the start.

Rey was running the middle together with Finn van Ryswyck, producing waves of movement that Cady and Bradders up front couldn't quite convert. It was daring stuff, and the Third Division were not sure what had hit them.

And then there was a disturbance in the force. CTV broke, they used their young soldiers to devastating effect and cut through the Rebel's defensive lines at pace, leaving Philbacca in goal no chance. 1 - 0 to the evil Third Division.

Rey rallied his troops, "We will begin to make things right. I've travelled too far and seen too much to ignore the despair in the galaxy. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Forth."

We pushed in search of our Jedi and found him in Bradders. Receiving the ball, he cut across the D and finished reverse stick to level the score! The Rebels cheered, CTV were stunned. We took advantage of their uncertainty and a similar attack led to the same result - a goal to the Rebels. We were in the lead!

A break in hostilities allowed Rey to address his troops. "People are counting on us. The galaxy is counting on us."

The Rebels rushed from their resting place and threw themselves headlong into the battle. CTV were not prepared for such a committed thrust and began to crumble. First, a well executed manoeuvre saw Bradders setting up young Cady who finished with the calmness of a true Jedi. 3 - 1

Then a short was won. The injection was pinpoint, the stop perfect, the strike superb, the stop on the line illegal. A stroke was awarded. Up stepped Bradders on his hat-trick, but the CTV keeper must have used the dark side, for the ball squeezed past the wrong side of the post!

No matter, the Rebels were in the ascendancy, and from a free hit on the edge of CTV space the ball was worked out to Finn, who fired it into the heart of CTV's D, where Ross Organa of Croydaan was waiting to deflect home.

The evil forces of the Third Division had been dispatched 4 - 1 and the Forth was well and truly awakened. The Rebels must take this forward into their final battles and ensure their status endures.

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