South Shore Anchors 69- MIT 0, but apparently we're all winners. (according to the south shore captain)

Guys the rugby season is 2 weeks old and something has to change NOW. I know a lot of people are beat up from France. School is hard. Work keeps you busy. Your girlfriend wants to go shopping on Saturday morning. Tough. We are not a pro team and no one expects you to change your entire life to play MIT rugby. You do owe it to yourself and your teammates though to show up to practice, and make it to games. If you can't make it to practice, or the game (or if you are going to be late) tell somebody. (Gavin the coach would be a good place to start.)

I'm sure I'll get an email from someone telling me it's not my place to be saying this. I don't fucking care. Come to practice and tell me to my face. Tell me on Saturday before the game. Hell I don't care if you show up to a game just to boo me. Bring your body to practice though to help with drills before chewing me out. It is totally embarrassing to drive 2 hours light on players (because someone drank too much the night before to get up, got abducted by aliens, couldn't be forced to leave the side of the sheep they were bedding, or some other 'reason') and get your ass handed to you, not because we suck, but because you're playing down 2 people. You play with the team you bring and fill in players are usually scrubs anyway. (Seriously. South shore makes it a point to give us the worst full back in history whenever we need a fill in. The fact that I know this from playing short against South Shore multiple times should tell you something.)

Does anyone remember Albany last year? A totally winnable game (playoff implications), was lost because we played down a man to a team of dirty playing fat old guys. Traveling like this is going to get us killed.

So if anyone is pissed at me about this, fine. I don't care. If you know I'm talking to you though, all I'm asking if for you to come to practice and get out and play rugby. We're not a bunch of girls so no grudges will be held, but the team needs people to man up and take responsibility for the season and being part of a TEAM.

Remember why we do this. Rugby is fun. Take the approximate 4 hours a week it takes to play and get the most out of it.

Thanks Lenny, Mike, and Marcel for showing up and really helping us out on Saturday.

I think I've done enough bitching about the past for a lifetime. Let's get out and train hard this week and show Ironsides who the better rugby team is. Southshore comes up again in 2 weeks. Let's show them what we're really made of, not this 13 person (69-0) shell of a rugby team.