A couple of good weekends!

Well a lot has happened since my last post. The cup final weekend was last week so I took the opportunity to get back to Denmark for the weekend to see Shane and a lot of the other guys I played with last year. Was able to go and see my old team play and actually got to sit on the bench as a 'physio'. Well they had a win, the first for a month so spirits were high and we had a good night hanging with all the guys and the the girls team from the same town.
The next day I went to Copenhagen to visit another Australian Nik West. Even though I was only there for the 1 night I had a great time, and the family he are living with are real nice. So it's good to see he's really enjoying himself over there.
So now to this week, we had a hard game against the #1 team Friedrichshaffen. What made it even more interesting was that they had smashed the current champions league title holder Treviso 3-0 on Wednesday. However we always knew we had nothing to lose and that they might take us lightly....and indeed they did!
After the 3rd point of the game David said to me 'Friedrichshaffen don't look to switched on today,' and he was right. It was an even start with Vfb (Friedrichshaffen) taking a few point lead. Just before the 2nd technical we were able to peg it back to about even. There was nothing seperating the 2 teams and Vfb had about 5-6 set points which we were able to side out on. Eventually we were able to take the set with a stunning Peter Lyck ace.
We came out firing in the 2nd, up 8-4 and looking really good. However as we expected Vfb picked up their game. Again it was pretty even heading into the business end of the set. Vfb ended up taking the set to 23 after a dubious call when he called the setter for an illegal block afterGagi was standing on the ground with his arms not fully extended. However we had to get over it and get on with the rest of the match.
The 3rd set was ours, we had a great start and kept it going throughout. We were playing our best volleyball for the year and making some great plays. We ended up taking the set to 19.
The 4th was similar, Vfb were in disaray and we took advantage taking a 8-5 and then 16-10 lead. At 18-11 we were looking good, and then got a small case of the jitters. Vfb pegged it back to within 3, and then 2, but to sum up Vfb's day at 24-22 they had a transition set opportunity that fell through the hands of the Vfb player giving us the match 3-1.
So a great win that most people didn't expect. However we gotta quickly regroup for an even harder game against Duren in Duren next week!