Jamie & Aaron - A touching tale of reconciliation and new found respect

Information drawn from text records give further insight into last weekend's tragic events. Exclusive to unistallions.blogspot.com

Jamie (from hospital bed): 'Score please bully!'

Aaron (from post-match jacuzzi with naked supermodels): 'Just got this. No goal. Hope u doing better, that was rough. Thanks again 4 the strip, bloody good. Will take it easy on u next time!'

J: 'haha, no worries, i wont b doin anymore physical warmups, save the hurtful saves 4 game time. b out up 2 4 weeks @ the most hopefully. Got it dislocated, but oh well, was going to happen one day, hasn't happened over the last 22 years of keeping.'

A: 'Thats better than we thought. C u then. BTW, i did get the pony for that.'

J: 'What did everyone think was the problem? Surely someone else must hav done something else to earn the pony, you were only getting your eye in and i was saving it'.

A: (too kind to say it was gonna be one of us, and I was feeling guilty) 'yeah, a tough jury. All good - taking out the star player with ure best strike of the season def pony-worthy! Boys played well.'

J: 'It was a bloody good strike, if it was game time I probably would hav dealt wit it differently, & now afta the way i feel i will def deal wit it differently.'

Classic Stallions Moment #2 - The Ludlow Curse

With only 1 week until the season begins, it is worth reminding ourselves of one of the most memorable Stallion debuts.

Aaron Ludlow comes into the Stallions, shows up for the first game vs Uni Raiders and slots into left back. About 3 minutes in, his raking pass from 40 metres ends up in the back of the Raiders's net to much celebration and surprise (especially from Aaron - who to his credit never claimed it was a shot - most unstallion-like). Had we found a saviour?

The next tackle sees Aaron's ankle snap. He limps off, never to play for the Stallions again. He showed up to watch a couple of times in a full cast.

From that point on 'The Ludlow Curse' has hovered over the Stallions - after all the pre-season excitement a major early season injury leaving a poor stallion on the sidelines, counting how much those subs work out on a per second basis.

The following season it was Rauru, cut down from behind about 2 seconds after slotting the first goal of the season (possibly explaining the 1 vote for Marist in our most hated opponent poll).

Hopefully next week we can get a win - and all walk away unassisted.

Image: Aaron Ludlow enviously watches the Stallions's extensive pre-season training regime from the other side of the fence. The byline clearly refers to our strikers.