 what's up you guys what is going on and welcome back to another video welcome back to another rugby update video this microphone is broken I need a new one so I really apologize if this audio is not up to standard but I'm gonna do my absolute very best guys it's Saturday it's game day baby and you know I'd feel really disappointed if I played this week's game which is week number five without first giving my update giving my match report on week number four you guys know I'm absolutely loving this I'm feeling really passionate about the sport again I'm loving playing back here in Christchurch and well today we're playing a team Sydney we're playing in Sydney it's an away game this is our third away game in a row we've got four until we're back at the sacred acre the Littleton recreation ground for another home game in week number seven I believe so anyways guys last week we played Linwood it was Littleton versus Linwood and I didn't know this at the time but we actually played on one of the premier fields in Canterbury or in Christchurch so if any I guess you know non-professional rugby is going to be televised in in Christchurch and it's not at the actual professional rugby stadium which is called Canterbury stadium they normally play on this field I'd never played there before I had no idea where it was never seen it before but let me tell you what an absolutely stunning ground to play on and we had some fantastic weather as well but it had been raining throughout the week so there were still patches on the park that were quite boggy but at the end of the day you know I remember pulling up there I saw the field it's it's purpose-built you know there's a really nice club rooms there blue sky was out funnily enough after our game they were actually staging a Christchurch first 15 game so I was actually unaware of all this but I learned it on the day that all of the Christchurch secondary schools have first 15s of course and they play on a Saturday as well as the other divisions so so that makes me remember back to when I was playing you know my only I guess senior first team sport at Cashmere High School and that was basketball and we did play on Saturday so it makes sense so they play on Saturdays and that game was after ours and it was televised as well so it was a really cool atmosphere you know they they had you know these these school these schoolboys piling in they were watching us warm up they watched you know the first half of our game before they had to go and get ready for their game and the atmosphere was just there so it was sweet right up until I had to take my first kick at goal first kick at goal for the year guys so before the game I got told literally the morning of the game look Jake we look I've got a question Jake Jake Jake Jake do you want to be kicker so I had a decision to make a two minute decision whether I was gonna put my hand up and say yep I'll do it or let my nerves take the better of me and say no not this week in the end I said right I'm gonna take the challenge I was kicker for the first half of the game now that that that was pretty surreal because my last year in 2003 which I just actually found my team photo for and I'll show you guys that in good time but in that year I was the kicker and I remember times throughout that year you know really being down in the dumps about missing a few kicks on the weekend and and then the next week would come along and you know my nerves would just be on another level you know what I mean until you hit a nice kick straight and true and then you're all good but well look I got one out of three let me say that so I did get my name on the score sheet I've officially scored two points this season that was a conversion but yeah shit let me think let me think this is my match report from the first half of our week four matchup against Linwood I only played the first half it was the first game that I've actually been taken off and that was absolutely fine because you know once again I got a massive hit I got hit fucking hard right as a tackler I was going in for the tackle he comes in he gives me a massive bump and this was in the first half and I got flattened I got absolutely steam rolled I think I went in for a tackle I went into the hips drive the shoulder into the hip the crease of the hip but he's come down and sort of brought that arm down and sort of given me a real big bump right so basically what happened was he almost broke my fucking collarbone and this was probably the most scary moment of the season so far and the reason is because I went in for a tackle and you know in that split second of doing that you feel the contact usually it's a it's a solid contact they don't feel any like sharp pains or anything unfortunately this time I did so I went in took the hit instantly felt this massive like shock wave go throughout my entire body he's obviously crunched something in my shoulder and they I guess they call this a stinger right it's certainly stung but it was also fucking paralyzed so I was lying on the ground unable to actually lift my arm for about five seconds and I went into panic mode big-time panic mode I thought holy shit I've just paralyzed myself what the fuck I got dumped on my head the week before and I've almost paralyzed myself this week no look it wasn't that serious after five seconds the movement started coming back but I tell you what that night when I was lying on my bed I couldn't I couldn't lay on that side for about three days and to be honest it's still a little bit sore now so what that tells me is that rugby is a rough game it also tells me that I probably need to work on my technique and probably need to take that first step into the tackle before hitting them with the the shoulder that first step is gonna give you your balance it's gonna give you your power and I definitely didn't do that I was I was I was completely square with them and so you know when you're trying to it doesn't matter how fast your feet are when you when you're square with someone and they just bowl straight over you I mean you know he could have tried to step but he went straight into me it's a fucking classic run at straight moment and look I've got to say I unfortunately came out worse off but that's rugby so that was the first moment of the game for me a couple of other moments I probably I probably had about two or three tackles certainly wasn't the seven or eight of last week as a backline we really surfed across the field and and you know covered their backline when they had the ball quite well they didn't spin it out too much they do like to you know go all the way one way and then go all the way back the other way and go all the way back the other way so for us as defenders as a line we really needed to you know mark up we needed to communicate and we needed to surf across the field and not commit to a tackle to then allow someone on the outside which I did the week before so I was I was extremely careful not to do that and I'm happy to say we didn't so we contained them pretty well lack of discipline in the first half gave away three penalties they kicked all three it was 9-0 then we scored a try and this is where my first kick happened so we scored a try and look all I can say is that I was praying to the heavens praying to the God whatever God there is out there that if you're gonna score a try boys please bring it under the posts so I've got a easy kick well no that certainly didn't happen they scored it two meters from the sideline so my first kick of the season my first kick of the day I didn't take any practice kicks before the game which is fucking stupid but my first kick of the day was two meters in from the sideline probably about a 45 meter kick and well I didn't get it but I got a photo and the photo from that kick I'm gonna put up right now I had no idea if photographer was gonna be there but he was and he captured that second moment of the game for me was a penalty kick we got a penalty probably about 30 meters out slightly to the left of the posts and you know skip gets the penalty call he starts looking around what are we gonna do he goes not we're gonna we're gonna go for you know after I missed that first kick he's like not we're gonna go for touch then I step up I say skip skip mate I can nail this I can do this let me ever go and so we did and what happened I fucking missed I fucking missed but once again we got a nice photo and that photo I'm gonna show to you right now so we got two photos two missed kicks possibly a broken collar bone but it's not and well a couple of tackles the only time I actually touch the ball only touch the ball once once was when they kick the ball back I was playing wing I dropped back got the ball within my 22 I should have kicked it right I should have turned around and booted the shit out of it and try to get some some some tried to get some territory kicked the ball out it's within my 22 when I received it so that means I can kick the ball out on the fall at that point I was so frustrated because I hadn't had the ball in my hands I wanted to run I thought probably about five minutes before that happened I said no you know what next time I get the ball I'm not gonna kick it I'm gonna run hoping that I make a line break and do something good well look man that the game went from bad to worse to be fair I turned around I considered kicking it I had about 10 meters in front of me I thought no you know what fuck it I'm gonna run people were yelling out to me kick it whilst I was running into the line I was yelling back to them no I'm not gonna kick I literally yelled that out man it was fuck oh my god bro I was that was a bit of a brain fade moment I should have stayed calm and I certainly did not I ran into the defense I got isolated and I turned the ball over so really guys the first half was absolutely fucking shocked in my opinion and I wasn't happy with it but there was one moment one you know I guess that face-saving moment you could say and at the end of the day guys I'm saying all this shit I'm getting really passionate about it getting really disappointed about it but the fact is is that everyone on that field every single player is feeling the exact same thing you know we're all we're all concerned about our own game we're really not concerned about the mistakes that anyone else makes unless you're a real dickhead and I'm certainly not like that anymore but you know I wanted to fuck I wanted to play well it was a fantastic field you know big crowd great day it's like this is the day man this is the day we're gonna ball out but it didn't happen so I actually talked to the coach I said my shoulders not that good and he pulled me off a half time but right before half time we scored a try and we scored another try the fullback broke a couple of tackles I was in support right about 20 meters out from the line we've got one more defender to beat or two more he dummies that defender the defender goes towards me he gets past him I continue to run in support he's got one defender to beat he should have given the pass right which would have been my try but he didn't he kept it again gave him another dummy fair enough kept it and scored thank God under the posts so the final play of the half and the final play of my game was knocking over a gimme conversion kick from right in front and that's how we finished the half I came off and I guess you know if that hadn't have happened I would have felt real shit and if I hadn't missed that holy shit I probably wouldn't have gone back but we got it so I scored two points the team came back extremely well fuck we've got a good squad we came back from 9-0 down to win 38 points to 9 I believe we scored six tries and got four conversions and with that being said guys that was my match report I really hope you enjoyed it I tried to make it as in-depth and entertaining as possible and I'll tell you what today's game day we've got our week 5 matchup against Sydney the old rival it's 8 49 in the morning on Saturday the 18th of July and guys I want to say have a fantastic day train hard eat well and I'll see you on the next one yes that's what I used to say back in the day when this channel was bodybuilding related only and you know I don't mind saying it train hard eat well and I'll see you in the next one peace out guys have a great day