Charles Platt – Editor at Large

Social mixed gender netball stalwart James Backer has all but got himself dropped from the team today, after an extremely impromptu Wednesday night blowout at a beloved campus instiution.

What was supposed to be a routine post tutorial schooner with an old schoolmate who also happens to be on campus rapidly accelerated in the late hours of the afternoon, as the beginning of the Botbar’s daily happy hour special coincided perfectly with the arrival of a mutual friend who neither had seen in some time.

Now with 4full strength beers sloshing around in their stomachs, the trio size up tomorrow’s work calendars and decide that this is, in fact, as good a day as any.

“Nah she’ll be right, I’m goal attack, only there because I’m taller than the girls and I don’t think being a bit dusty changes that” mutters James, as the thought of migrating to the Victory Hotel begins to cross his mind.

What he has failed to consider is that two of his teammates are former netball cadet players and will take any opportunity to retake their rightful place as the queens of the court, with none of the lanky goalkeeper boyfriends or smooth palmed mummy’s boys too soft to play either of our contact football codes in sight.

Tomorrow night at Downey Park, James can expect the tongue lashing of a lifetime.