anuwsc division three

ANU Blue Steel (doesn't want to talk about it) 0 - Cooma 4

Not so long ago, in a land far, far away, ANU Blue Steel found themselves off the catwalk, disoriented and without any CDs to play in the car. That’s right, it was the inevitable trip to Cooma, under taken by every SL3 team once during the season. Sadly, though the Cooma Tourist Information Centre claims Cooma “has much to offer” and is a “pretty and vibrant town”, the trip did not prove popular. With key players such Prof. ‘Where are my ovaries?’ Hansel, Magnum, Le Tigra and Marshmellow ‘fatty’ Kmart among others missing, Blue Steel was down to only 11 players, none of them a keeper, and one with a mysterious ankle injury which meant only 10 were on the intergalactic sized field in the dying minutes of the match.

None the less, our feats were inspiring. Blue Steel held her poise and gave the Cooma biddies a decent challenge. The second half, without subs on a huge field, meant Blue Steel tired, but impressively we kept our shape and positions. The likes of Steph ‘Oh my God I thought we said no shots!’ Mugatu, Wham, Katinka, and Just-grab-her-legs-Derelicte meant Blue Steel saw only one goal slip past our courageous stand-in goalie Francis with an unlucky deflection in the first half. In the second half Cooma decided it was time to put the small, round, extremely deceptively fast sweeper into a striker position. Turns out Cooma only have enough players to put one team in the entire ACT comp, and aforementioned deceptively fast girl packed a shot which division one players would admire. She packed in two of them actually. And while Blue Steel’s defenders and second stand-in goalie Derelicte shut down and blocked a number of shots, the Cooma subs had too much energy to keep up with. Despite the score line, our ability to hold position meant we didn’t walk away feeling like we’d just failed to pull our underwear out from underneath our pants. Go Blue Steel, we are Magnum in the making.

Mer "Derelicte" Van Setten

Blue Steel v Belsouth 14th May 2006

ANU Blue Steel is the new black - you'd better believe it. Belsouth baby blue had nothing on us in the first half. Mitzi "so hot right now" Gonzales had to be taken off the field because she was near on fire. Tori "where are my ovaries" Rob-Con (I could spell the whole thing but who has time quite frankly) was a defensive force to be reckoned with. Tori was unstoppable in tandem with Annie who converted Rowena's well won penalty. Toying with Belsouth's emotions "oh no I've missed. Just kidding! I have actually hit the inside of the post and have scored you fools!" she continued to muscle it up in the backline for the rest of the game.

Meanwhile, Mel ran like a crazy (as usual) and Kerrie also scored (as usual). From the backline it appeared she could score if she wanted to but quite frankly could not be bothered as she slowed the ball right down but then BAM! Ball went down and in the back of the net! Unfortunately Belsouth also scored once and then allegedly (!!) twice when valiant Cecilia had a goal she'd already saved scored against her. The injustice of it all was almost too much and it is almost certain we would have scored another eight times had the game lasted another eight minutes. But sadly the whistle was blown all too soon and we were forced to resign ourselves to the compromise that, although undeniably we make this look good, we had drawn the football 2-2.

Steph Marimuthu

Blue Steel v Tuggeranong

“God save me, we’re playing Tuggeranong again”. Steph could not contain her excitement and anticipation (steph: read: dread and fear for her young life) as the draw revealed that her unhealed bruises would once again be subject to the tactics of the ladies (steph: ha!) from Tuggeranong. But not to be deterred by the previous weeks warfare with Tuggeranong, Blue Steel turned out in force on a windy Sunday morning in Waramanga, to first battle with putting the nets up, before showing Tuggeranong what steely soccer players ANU Blue Steel are.

After dominating the first half, Blue Steel were unlucky to be one nil down at half time, as the gods of luck decided to play on the side of Tuggeranong. However, under the guidance and instruction of their fearless leader Julian, Blue Steel wooed the gods of luck to do their bidding in the second half. The traps were perfect, the passes were perfect, and Rowena hammered the ball into the net to equalise. The expletives being hurled at the opposition became more confident, fearless leader Julian grew increasingly animated on the sideline, and then GOAL – with Rowena and then Maire taking the goalie’s attention, Kerrie discovered the results of learning to kick straight by scoring two goals. The final result was a 3-1 victory to Blue Steel. (Steph: Eugoogilise that!)

Kerrie McDonald