Silver, where?

Long ago, in a previous career, a wise coach once told me it's best to take sports "one game at a time." Think about it a while. So simple yet wise. A mantra, a motto, a way to live in the now (or almost now) without getting your head bent out of shape about the future.

Since that coach (could have been Wayne Bennett, or maybe Tommy Raudonikis -no, Tommy would have said "take #$%^ing one #$%^ing game at a @#$%ing time", but I digress) passed on this wisdow I have held it dear.

Until now.

So we play against the Mako's (no matter how repugnant, the unnecessary apostrophe is theirs and should therefore be grudgingly accepted) and then the Sweaties in the next two weeks. But May 23, Super Duper Saturday, is a day I just can't get out of my mind.

Home advantage against Home advantage. Mate against Mate. Enemy against Enemy. Maroon against White. A game for the history books. So many subplots. Will Alex come to shore? Will Ian give a freekick? Will Doug kill us all? Will Gary H kill you all? Will Mick S and Dave C turn up at 3pm for the 1pm ko? Where will SportsTab set the odds?

But I double digress.

I wish to propose (on the recommendation of Inner Circle Ant) that we get a trophy minted for this and future challenges between our senior teams. My feeling is that we put it up for an aggregate score over the home and away legs (Maroons home in round 9, Whites home in round 22) for this season. If in future we are in different divisions then we will have a special match in preseason for the Cup.

So, now all we need is a name. Your best suggestions left here please.

My suggestion is the Ian Dewey Cup. For two reasons. One, it's a good way to suck up to the guy who is volunteering his time to ref all our sorry arses each week at home after volunteering much more as president of the junior club. And second, because when I came and told him that we wanted to set up some senior teams, destroy his playing surface, use all the club's gas and leave dirty dishes in the sink he said"ok".