ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN OVERSEAS

Take a bow Blue Mountains Rugby, yet again you have produced another fine ambassador to our great land and rugby club.

In our return to Banff and our prirate ways this year I had the honour of seeing young Blue Mountains export and amatuer sheep swallower "Dusty" show the locals how it is done.

After meeting dusty's team in the first match he was kind enough to take a dive with the ball and let his elder not look foolish in front of his team mates and then we shared a beer.

Moving back to my own chicken wire enclosure and the keg we were tapping and I lost track of Dusty for the remaining 18hours until the next day where he assured me he was the drunkest man in town.


As Dusty helped himself to my supplies of beer on Sunday around lunch and told me about the night before and the morning I started to get an idea that he would certainly be the drunkest man in the semi final.

He did not disappoint me as my heart swelled with pride to see another half back cleary drunk and while he did not single-handedly lose the match for his team, did them few favours with his putrid passing, inability to catch and general uselessness. It was beautiful. Somehow he managed to keep going however. True Blueys spirit that would not fail him.

What can a train wreck of a man do when he is fully suicidal? Mouth off at a Kangaroo Court. Dusty had enough punishment coming his way only to add to it as he would come out of his coma, yell something, and pass out on someone's leg again. By the time I was being trucked back unconscious to Calgary around 7pm or so Dusty was still going somehow and after further abuse of himself at the team's campground decided it would be a good idea to hit the bars.

Initially the barman found it tolerable, if not a bit amusing, when Dusty and his buddy stood at his bar in the middle of a nightclub completely nude. The bouncers however did not and soon he and his mate were being escorted off the premises as they hurriedly tried to clothe while being shown the door.

Luckily the boys had enough clothes on when they encountered the police at the front door to have the police rebuff the bouncers' request of a night in the drunk tank and Dusty lived to fight another day.

The future is in good hands.

Labby