Wednesday fever is back

It seems a while since I’ve done this. The slight flaw in negotiating Wednesdays off school in order to watch Cait play in the academy is that the academy don’t play during the holidays. Which is a bit of a waste, but I knew this when I walked into by boss’s boss’s office and negotiated this deal.

What I didn’t expect was to be watch Caitlin playing in the WBBL for Wolves in an aways game against newly crowned European champions London Lions at Oaklands. Or that Lions would be using their temporary home for the third time in four days, the fourth time this season and the sixth time in the last 15 months. I suspect they’ll be back for a play-off first round game – hopefully against us – as well.

Crazy days.

At this point, I’ll remember that I work for Oaklands, and this bit is relevant. So, while they’re Oaklands’ temporary tenants, I won’t make comment about Lions’ venue situation. I imagine 777 are more interested in buying Everton, and they’ve heard everything they need to about their women’s team’s nomadic existence, so the only comment I’ll make is that it’s a shame that the game couldn’t have piggy backed their men’s game at the Copper Box tomorrow. If it’s okay to play at 2pm on a Wednesday, 4.45pm on a Thursday could have been done.

It would have been nice to have played at the Copper Box. It might be the only chance Cait gets, but at the moment she’d take anything. It’s been three and half weeks since she was clattered in the final D2 game of the season. Time hasn’t flown by. Easter 2023 saw her get in the WBBL squad for the first time, she was involved this year but not being able to play has obviously frustrating. She definitely missed out on some court time against Durham, maybe not at home to Giants and the silver lining might be that Newcastle is a bloody long way to go for a possible DNP.

So today’s the day, even if we’ll be on the wrong bench and the wrong locker room. They’re a bit short on numbers, so she should get on the court, and hopefully a short bench will mean she’s not roped into doing the table – yesterday’s game saw one player from each club helping with the scoring, which might be the height of tinpotedness (if tinpotedness really is a word) – but I was proud she refused to bale out the WBBL against Durham because they didn’t send three table officials. Her dad sorted it out, anyway.

I had a dream last night. It wasn’t as good as Tuesday morning’s dream where I met Dirk. I actually bounced out of bed yesterday morning I was so happy. 65 Y9s in a combined music and RS class soon killed that mood. But in last night’s dream Lions showed up without enough players, so they forfeited the game and didn’t even get the losing point (though there isn’t a losing point in the WBBL, anyway). The teams agreed to play the game, and Lions still won.

That’s probably a realistic indication of the task facing Wolves this afternoon.

But it’s good to have a bit of Wednesday fever.