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The Cowra Bowling Club Eagles travelled to sunny Forbes to take on Condobolin last Sunday. They were greeted by a field that looked like an old paddock, thistles, Khaki weed, Cat heads, dirt clods and rocks the size of tennis balls where irrigation pipes were laid and ground about as even as Billy Goat Hill.

The Eagles left their game faces behind and Condo had the better of them for the first 30 minutes.

Only scrambling defence from Sole, Mark Gillham and Hoops with Mitch in goal prevented a couple of goals being scored.

The few times the midfield was covered, they looked quite good, throwing the ball round and keeping it off the opposition.

One of these times saw Timmy Muir and Tinny Reed combine well to unload to Haysey to blast home from close range.

A couple of minutes later, Glenn Reid played a nice through ball for Ado and Tinny to chase. A defender gave chase too. The keeper raced out to clear the ball but kicked it into his own player. Tinny ran on and tapped it into the net.

Soon, Condo were attacking. The left wing took the ball into the box where Hoops had him covered but did something wrong and the ref blew his whistle and pointed to the spot.

After an argument over who was going to take it, someone eventually stepped up.

Mitch Thompson was Mr Cool in goal. He dived full length to his left – no, that was on tele. Mitch just stood there and the bloke kicked it straight to him. At half-time Cowra led 2-0.

Fordy was far from impressed with the first half performance.

They could have been behind due to a lack of interest. After his rant he told them ball has to be kept at the feet as the field was crap.

The second half began in pleasing fashion. Tinny was after everything, working well with Ernie and Mick Finucane.

After five minutes, Cowra built up strongly, playing the ball wide to Ado.

He cut it back and Tinny cracked one from 25 metres. The keeper had no chance. 3-0.

The next one came a good build up from Sole and Mark Gillham with Mick Finucane hitting the crossbar.

The ball dropped to Tim Muir who volleyed a ball Harry Kewell would have been proud of. The Condo keeper didn’t get a chance to move as it whizzed past him and this made it 4-0 to the Eagles.

Glen Reid was proving a handful for the Condo team with some decisive runs through the middle. On one of these, he pushed the ball to a flying Tinny who easily beat the keeper to make it 5-0.

Cowra were then on the attack again. Lovely play by Ado and Haysey saw a great ball angled through for Hoops to run onto.

Unfortunately, he used too much of something, and the ref saw it but every one else missed it. He blew his whistle and ran over to Hoops like Taz on the cartoons.

Hoops knew what was coming. He just took his shirt and walked off.

The ref held up a second yellow card. The Eagles were down to 10 players. Soon Condo brought on their secret weapon, THE AXE.

They weren’t wrong. After a couple of near misses, he got Mark Gillham, who had to be carried from the field with a lower cruciate meniscus pull with limpus wristitus and a cute angina (I think).

Cowra were down to nine and with Mick Finucane succumbing to injury, the Eagles were down to eight.

This didn’t stop them attacking.

Greeny went on one of his trademark runs and chipped the ball over to Tinny to belt his fourth home.

Tim was having a great second half and he set the last one up with a top ball across for guess who? Tinny knocked his fifth in and didn’t he let them know it.

All in all it was a good win with plenty of guts shown on a very hot day when they lost players.

The Wig of Shaame went to Mick Finucane for clean missing the ball with only the keeper to beat and the points went to Tinny Reed for his eagle eye on goal.

This Sunday, both teams are at home. The twos play Condo at 12pm and the ones play Railway Chooks 1 at 2pm. Come along for some great entertainment.