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@skoota
Paris bench minor:
i couldnt find the thread, thought there was another paris bff thread but seemingly not. It was a great weekend, I really enjoyed the format. Good long games, lots of court time and then only a final to play after your three 2 x 25 halves. It made a real sense of camaraderie rather than 3 people against the rest of the world. The surface was amazing. It was a plastic mesh that we snapped together in sections and i thought i would be awful when we looked at it but it was speedy, smooth, great to skid on but had grip also. I saw one washout all weekend. Highlight of the weekend had to be teh funniest 30seconds of polo ever. My team (Luis) in red was playing Greg's team in black and i had just been subbed, im watching from the side lines as we are 4-5 down. Hannes (black) gets a loose ball and moves over the centre line, big swing, manages to take out his own front wheel, mallet goes to 3 o clock bike to 7 o clock hannes spread eagle on the ground as a double set of minute and hour hands. He has to sub out as he's hurt. Mattieu MGM comes on picks the ball up heads toward his own goal and as 7 other black shirts yell "no, no, no" at him he slams one through his team mates BB, the smallest of smiles before he realises he's scored an own goal. Everyone laughs, Greg subs him straight out again. We were 5-5. I thought we might be getting lucky...we lost 16-9 :)
Brilliant fun.