Well the saying is normally 'A week is a long time in football' referring to how much can change in a short period of time. Last Wednesday we left Hylte after losing 3-0, and the series being tied at 1-1. We hadnt played great, but by know means our worst performance of the season. I still believed that if we had won the 3rd set(we lost 30-28) we would have gone on to win the game, but it wasnt to be. So after Wednesday we began planning for Sunday, so with plan A not working in Hylte, despite working in the first game, we began hearing of plan B, C, D and E. However they where thrown out of the window during friday practice when one of our guys rolled an ankle, so it was back to Plan A, with a few tweaks. So sunday came around after the drama's of the previous days, the buzz that i though was missing from wednesday was back, there was no forced happiness and joy it was all back to normal just like the previous sunday. We won the game 3-1, it was a similar pattern to the previous sunday, a close 1st set , that we gained control in and coasted at the end to seal it, a tight 2nd set, won 25-23, a tight 3rd set lost 24-26, then a 4th set we never looked like losing 25-20. However there where 2 differences to the previous week, at the start of the 4th set, Hylte went 1-0 up, however one of their american players on court, but no where near the play suddenly fell to the floor and could not continue with a suspected torn achillies tendon. The second massive difference, was Lennie Hansson, in the 2nd set we were 21-23, coach decided to put lennie on to serve and well, the boy delivered!! 4 aces in a row!!
I don't think I have ever seen anything like it live.
Although we lost the set after, I think Hylte where still in shock, the crowd really got behind us, and every time he came on to serve Hylte looked like they were shi**ing it. The ironic thing is that lennie would most likely have not been playing had our guy not get injured on friday, but to be fair to the lad, he took his chance when it was given to him.
So that took us to last night and game 4 in Hylte, we won 3-0, (25-19, 25-20, 25-19), with one of there americans injured, they had to play with a different system, and we took advantage of it. We served them off the court and made few errors. I don't think anyone could have predicted what happened in the past 6 days, twists and turns in all sense's. Some good and some bad. But that's sport, and that's why people love to watch and play, the drama, the buzz, the passion.
Now its on to saturday and away to Linkoping, who won the regular season, but we had the best results against them out of any team in the division, also hopefully no more broken bones.
Now on to ramblings and moaning, now I believe this is slightly retarded, and someone in the swedish world needs to have a word with themselves. I am meant to get money for working in the schools during the work, but the money comes from the government. So to get it you have to fill out a form at the job centre, then send it half way up the country, for someone retard to check it and fill out a cheque and send it back, sounds simple, but this being sweden it is not. You send your form off, because apparently a bank transfer from one swedish account to another swedish account is far to advance for them, then wait for your cheque. I was thinking this would take a few days, how wrong i was, it has been 2 and a half weeks since my form was sent and i am still waiting. I don't know how people from england can send me stuff and it takes 2 days, yet it takes more than 2 weeks for a letter to arrive from a place 6 hours up the road in the same country. Apparently ASAP means as soon as we can be arsed.
Also, apparently when you play basketball with young kids here, they turn it to rugby, and try and beat the person with the ball up. And slightly cruel, but i found it funny, watching a kid bounce the ball off the wall and into his on face. Maybe you had to be there to fully appriciate it.
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