That was the week that was.

So, lets recap the last 7 days then...

Sunday saw us face off against the Vipers, who were looking to secure their placing in the play-offs. Frankly, it was obvious even during the warm up, our lads were completely knackered. And once the game began, this tiredness showed even more. Plus, I'm sure that they guys had at least half an eye on Tuesdays game, and were trying to keep something in the tank in that regard.

So, Tuesday. Lets get it out of the way first. We lost. The giants took the CC 6-5 on agregate. Well done to them. We played as well as could be expected given the circumstances (outrageous fixture schedule, 5 guys dosed up on antibiotics), but Belfast were quite clearly fresher. We made them work for it, mind, but the better team won on the night.

Off ice, however, was a different story. What respect i had for the Giants organisation was somewhat erroded by the on site reports I recieved during the game. First off, there was a pretty major problem with the seating arrangements. We sold 120 tickets, apparently under the belief that these were for reserved seats. Upon arrival, we found that of this 120, only 75 had actuall seats, the remainder being forced to either stand, or sit on the stairs. This did not go down too well with the Phoenix contingent.

Then, there was no small amount of kerfuffle over the M.O.M. presentations, or lack thereof. What seems to ahve happened is that Belfast announced that Tony Hand was the Phoenix M.O.M., but seemed to not do the standard presentation and photo, prefering to move on to the trophy presentation. Thyis lead to a pissed off Tony, and some very pissed off fans (thanks for the call, Caz!). And allegedly, promionent Phoenix supporter Tambo spoke to Belfast GM Todd Kelman, who basiclly said 'tough', which needless to say did not go down too well at all.

Phew.

Then came Thursday where a clearly not trying, still knackered Phoenix almost took the full 2 points away from Hull without apparently trying. Hull needed OT and penalty shots to guarantee themselves the points in waht was a surprisingly hard fought game.

And thats pretty much that. I should be running the Twitter updates for todays game, but if you are going, I'll see you there.