Match V Rottenburg

Well we headed to Rottenburg knowing it was a must win game. Rottenburg were a low team on the ladder, but we had shown in the last 2 away games that we were capable of losing to teams we shouldn't. Turbingen (the town where we actaully play) is a nice little student town, I'm not sure if the fact it is student dominated is one of the primary reasons why they ger 2000+ people to their game every weekend. Either way for a team sitting 3rd bottom it's really impressive.

So we started the first set a little shaky, Tommy was having some trouble from the outside and we werent taking our opportunities. We managed to play a bit better at the end to take the set to 22.

The second set was a bit of a catastrophe! (We havn't liked the 2nd set much this year) We just never got into a rhythm and we made way to many errors. Soon it was 1-1. After a deserved 'talking too' from Jens during the 10 minute interval we came out a better team. Tommy was back to his old self hitting kills at will, and Peter was also attacking well after replacing Lars at the end of the 2nd set. However we could never quite get away from a determined Rottenberg side. We ended up taking the set to 23 with a Rottenberg service error.
The 4th set was much more Wuppertal like, we started fairly equally, but gradually towards the business end of the set we made some better plays and took the set to 19, giving us a 3-1 victory.

As we were leaving my car didn't want to start, apparently a moth had eaten through some of the started cables! So we had to wait another hour or so til we got that fixed!

So now we have a weekend off, so I'm heading up to Denmark to see Shane and Westy. Should be fun. After that we have a run of 4 games til finals. We play the top 3 teams and the 6th place team. I'm confident we can cause an upset somewhwere in the and maybe grab a top 4 spot for finals!