Sadly for the player and myself, it's not for good reasons..
AND ITS NEW NAME IS..
Meet Dangerfield the 4 stroke mower. One of the trio I picked up as part of Mower Mania 2021, it scored it's new moniker when I selected it to play...and nothing happened.
Just like every time I've selected Dangerfield to play in the Flavorless
Flav's and I've ended up with a DNP at the end of the round as I wondered how
yet another of my brilliant plans failed to fire.
Actually truth be told, something did happen - it started and I got a quarter
of the front lawn done and then it just decided 'well that's it for me,
quitting time' then it stopped and flat out refused to start up again. It
seems after a while of not using it due to rains, lack of time and that
feeling of not stressing too much about the lawns, when it finally got another
chance to shine it fell to bits. (Literally as I had issues with the spark
plug falling to bits as well as fuelling dramas.)
But after a couple of sunnier afternoons with the tool kit, it's a good
news/bad news scenario.
The good news part is that I managed to fix Dangerfield the mower. I swapped out the spark plug lead from one of the other two units, cleaned out some rusty fluid in the float bowl and even swapped out the exhaust. After coughing through some belches of black smoke, he roared to life and returning to spinning like crazy.
He also made enough noise to drown out the entire neighbourhood which means
it's high time for an oil change which I suspect hasn't happened since he was
new.
But the fact is, I fixed Dangerfield with some spare bits and an hours work.
But the fact is, I fixed Dangerfield with some spare bits and an hours work.
Which leads us to the bad news:
And that is, I can't do the same for Dangerfield the player. It's not like I
can pull the legs off Richards while he's on the bench and put them on Danger,
hoping he'll last long enough by doing that without having to give him an oil
change.
So this is pretty much where we part ways. Since I have no emotional
connection to the player apart from the big scores he's given me when he has
been playing well, it's time to thank him for his service and introduce his
replacement.
REPLACEMENT DANGER
-You can put him in MID or FWD and I do like a versatile double threat
-He's currently got an 81.2 average and that's not the worst on the team
-He's only missed two games this year
-And he was one of the best out of all the players left on the free market.
So welcome Nic, here's hoping I don't name a lawnmower after you.
BUT WHY STOP THERE?
I mean I do need a new RUC since Flynn seems to be having no luck getting over
his injury, so we say 'thanks for your time pal' to Flynny:
And welcome in his place
ROWAN MARSHALL
Welcome Ro, here's hoping I don't name a garden implement after you.
And so with those changes, hopefully we're at full lawn mowing power again or
at least close enough to annoy the Tysonic Hedgehogs who we play again this
week. The team as it stands:
Wish me luck!
PLOT TWIST!
A couple of days after I posted this, Tyson reveals he's got a new player on board. And of course it's Dangerfield. I've cast him out the week he's returned from injury but what irony hey? Especially if he gets back to some winning form and runs riot all over his former team..
SO HOW DID WE GO!
We managed to field a full team this week!
Unfortunately even with all players on board, it wasn't a strong enough team to beat the Hedgehogs, not by a long shot.
Sure it would have helped if we still had Danger. And if I had Cameron up front with his 137 points. But would it change the outcome? Yeah, no.
Tyson won by a ridiculous 444 points. And that goes a great way of explaining why he's top of the ladder and I'm second from the bottom.
No wait, I'm now dead last. Damn you Guy!
Anyone else want to throw some bad news my way? :/
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