Boca Adversaries - The Old Days
Some of the great adversaries over the years
1. John from Pakuranga - what an arsehole this guy was, no seriously. He once ran on the field after the game and yelled at his team to kick the shit out of us. He just kept popping up. One year he reffed the 2nd half of a game when we were leading 3-0, it ended up 3-3. Digs suggested to him that he must have got his ref's badge out of a weetbix packet.
2. Stretch (Birkenhead) - aptly named. Stretch was physically designed for basketball but his Birkenhead team kept getting in our way and in the pre-Wayne era just pipped us for what would have been our only success.
3. Ginger Nut (North Shore) - Ginger Nut and Wayne just couldn't get enuff of each other. It was all a bit of a handbags at 6 paces thing but what will always last long in the memory will be the two of them rolling around on the aromatic Devonport Domain turf with the game still going on at a different end of the pitch.
4. Steve Jerkovic - the consummate whinger. Steve and Wayne had what you might call a bit of a friendly rivalry ... not! Steve ended up joining Zamantix ironically and giving the Stock Market report on TV3 .... yeah, that guy.
5. Gregor (Sociables) - the Sociables personified what was good about a bunch of fat guys running around on a football field on a Sunday afternoon. They were seriously good sports and even Wayne liked them. Gregor was the gentleman at the helm. He once instructed his teammate to just roll the ball to our keeper from a penalty kick after we appealed to him that it was an unjust decision.
6. Hellman (Sociables) - lucky Hellman had the other soothing characters around him. He looked like a friendly pirate. Stopped playing footie to join a death metal band that was last heard to be touring the States.
7. Barry (Socialists) - Barry was a bit of a one man show, with his long, long hair and his whole hearted approach to the game he was often the only thing between us and a good whipping of their Trotskyist butts. But to be fair they were always more than just a team of left wingers .... ha, ha, ha.
8. Paul Kalhain (Courtenay Arms - Wellington) - it was the Paul Kalhain/Andrew vanderlaan relationship that brought us the FBCT and 3 or 4 years of traipsing off to Napier to get our hands on the pathetic little trophy. Paul and his mates were well pissed off that we came away with the trophy the first couple of years but when they finally thrashed us we just decided to stop going.
9. The boys from Bob's Mob - the boys from way out west, felt like we were on the set for "Deliverance" all it needed was a few banjos to start twanging.
1. John from Pakuranga - what an arsehole this guy was, no seriously. He once ran on the field after the game and yelled at his team to kick the shit out of us. He just kept popping up. One year he reffed the 2nd half of a game when we were leading 3-0, it ended up 3-3. Digs suggested to him that he must have got his ref's badge out of a weetbix packet.
2. Stretch (Birkenhead) - aptly named. Stretch was physically designed for basketball but his Birkenhead team kept getting in our way and in the pre-Wayne era just pipped us for what would have been our only success.
3. Ginger Nut (North Shore) - Ginger Nut and Wayne just couldn't get enuff of each other. It was all a bit of a handbags at 6 paces thing but what will always last long in the memory will be the two of them rolling around on the aromatic Devonport Domain turf with the game still going on at a different end of the pitch.
4. Steve Jerkovic - the consummate whinger. Steve and Wayne had what you might call a bit of a friendly rivalry ... not! Steve ended up joining Zamantix ironically and giving the Stock Market report on TV3 .... yeah, that guy.
5. Gregor (Sociables) - the Sociables personified what was good about a bunch of fat guys running around on a football field on a Sunday afternoon. They were seriously good sports and even Wayne liked them. Gregor was the gentleman at the helm. He once instructed his teammate to just roll the ball to our keeper from a penalty kick after we appealed to him that it was an unjust decision.
6. Hellman (Sociables) - lucky Hellman had the other soothing characters around him. He looked like a friendly pirate. Stopped playing footie to join a death metal band that was last heard to be touring the States.
7. Barry (Socialists) - Barry was a bit of a one man show, with his long, long hair and his whole hearted approach to the game he was often the only thing between us and a good whipping of their Trotskyist butts. But to be fair they were always more than just a team of left wingers .... ha, ha, ha.
8. Paul Kalhain (Courtenay Arms - Wellington) - it was the Paul Kalhain/Andrew vanderlaan relationship that brought us the FBCT and 3 or 4 years of traipsing off to Napier to get our hands on the pathetic little trophy. Paul and his mates were well pissed off that we came away with the trophy the first couple of years but when they finally thrashed us we just decided to stop going.
9. The boys from Bob's Mob - the boys from way out west, felt like we were on the set for "Deliverance" all it needed was a few banjos to start twanging.
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