Saturday 17th August
Our next home bout was against Northern Brisbane Rollers... this was a last minute change of plans as Townsvillains had pulled out of the bout 3 weeks before the date... even with all advertising thrown all around town - we had to change everything and find a team to fill in...
Luckily for us, NBR were brilliant and sent up a team mixed between their A and B team players.... (and I believe, only 8 players!) They were amazing... It was also a double header - so Paradise City Roller Derby (a new league made up mostly of old Gold Coast Roller Derby players) went up against Mackay City Roller Maidens (both of these teams hammered us last year... so it was refreshing to see PCRD hammer Mackay! (in a nice way, of course!)
The pics throughout this post were taken by Drew, Richard Tompsett & John Todd (our league photographer)
Team Pic
HeBeGB skating past Tilt McKilt
We were allowed to watch most of the first bout... so we lined up nicely in the suicide seating.... a sea of green knee socks...
Video Bob - these bouts were streamed live by DNN and watched all over Australia....
(I had friends down in Adelaide watching and also posting to my facebook timeline during the bout...)
Ref meeting....
NBR warming up
Hustlers Warming up
Jade & Blake had their faces painted in support of the Hustlers
I got Blake a Glow Sword....
Jade got a Glow Wand
Body BagHer & Frank
(oh - and if I haven't explained previously - she does actually work in a morgue)
Rob loves any opportunity to pick up a Mic :)
Bout Pics!
Zerky's hubby Krakka....
Jade helping Suz to MC
Blake hasn't managed to stay awake for a bout yet!
Me & Suz
Coming to Congratulate me after the game...
Greg even finally came to a bout to watch....
Jade was a happy little Hustler Supporter
Lil Miss & Zerky
Teams Pic at the end...
Chatting with the Mackay girls...
One very tired puggle coming to say hi....
Me & Suz again....
(I need to learn to stand on the other side of people so that I can say XXX and I)
Me & Tilt
It was a great bout.... although, given that HeBeGB and I had a trials comp the next morning, we didn't head to the After Party for long so that we could get a decent sleep.......
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