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Wednesday <strong>June</strong> 1 2<strong>01</strong>6<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 23<br />
SPORTS<br />
Football season begins<br />
FIRST KICKS: The Ferrymead <strong>Bay</strong>s first kicks programme<br />
and their coaches all squeezed in for a group photo on the<br />
weekend. Every Saturday morning more than 120 children<br />
take part in the first kicks and fun football programmes held at<br />
Ferrymead Park.<br />
Banks Peninsula’s peculiar season<br />
• Fraser Walker-Pearce<br />
IT’S BEEN a peculiar season<br />
for Banks Peninsula’s top rugby<br />
team, with surgeries, a helicopter,<br />
and an injured assistant coach.<br />
Peninsula are fast approaching<br />
their club day on Saturday, although<br />
some players might need<br />
a door or two to be held open.<br />
The club’s first team has experienced<br />
three surgery-requiring<br />
injuries in the first nine games.<br />
The first was a head injury,<br />
which required the assistance of a<br />
helicopter to transport the player<br />
to hospital. The second was a dislocated<br />
hip, which required going<br />
under the knife.<br />
But the most recent was even<br />
stranger.<br />
Assistant coach Ben Skelton<br />
had a history of playing for the<br />
club but, since his retirement<br />
from rugby, had taken to the<br />
HARSH SCRUMS: Banks Peninsula have lost three players to season ending injuries, including<br />
their assistant coach.<br />
sidelines.<br />
But, two weeks ago when Peninsula<br />
played Lincoln at home in<br />
Little River, the 42 year-old volunteered<br />
to go on for the last few<br />
minutes because the side were a<br />
man down.<br />
Head coach Michael Wilson<br />
said he was surprised at how fast<br />
he had volunteered to go on.<br />
“He was the assistant coach<br />
for the side with me and we were<br />
slightly short, so he decided to<br />
have the last few minutes against<br />
Lincoln at home,” he said.<br />
But after just two minutes in<br />
the tight head prop position,<br />
Skelton “blew his hamstring”.<br />
Not only did the hamstring<br />
give in, it was torn off the bone.<br />
But that didn’t stop him from<br />
joining one more scrum, Wilson<br />
said.<br />
“He did pack down for a final<br />
scrum after that, he just hopped<br />
his way to the scrum and after<br />
that the full time whistle went.”<br />
Last week Skelton had surgery<br />
to “re-attach the hamstring” to<br />
his leg.<br />
“He’s just got out of surgery last<br />
Thursday to reconnect it. He’ll<br />
be out for weeks and months just<br />
in rehab. I’m pretty sure that will<br />
cement the retirement,” Wilson<br />
said.<br />
The final game of the first<br />
round for Peninsula will be at<br />
home on club day against Rolleston.<br />
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