Since we’ve been putting on a show the past 14 weeks…
RINO’S & F ▪ R ▪ I ▪ E ▪ N ▪ D ▪ S SC – Season 1 – Episode 16: “The one where Peter ended the game”
Episode Summary:
The gang gets back from holidays and puts in two
good training sessions. Jeff sleeps with Rachel. The Rino’s play a game against NK Hrvat. Peter gets a red card. Rino’s with a default win. Charlie wins Nissan Man of The Match.
Full Recap:
Aches, poor touches and an inevitable drop in fitness mark the first week back for Rino’s. Christmas comes late bringing a shiner for Jordan, knee pain for Cyrus, a swollen ankle for Charlie, and a sore throat late
in the week for John Bligh – foreshadowing he and Andrew will have their very own shower scene in next week’s episode. Rino”s overcome injuries as they enter Sunday with a full roster. The pregame locker-room is ordinary. Rob touts the oppositions’ offensive threats, Ken lets the team know where the game ranks on the hugeness scale, and Jordan agrees to help Charlie wrap his ankle. The team begins to warm up. Ken and Rob discuss with Charlie whether or not he can start. He says that he can and goes to warm up with Jeff. After a few shots on net Charlie sees an opportunity to get Jeff back for sleeping with Rachel and he volleys the ball into his head. Jeff holds his head in pain and begins to get moody, but all is well and he returns to his net for the start of the game. The starting line up is the usual for Rino’s, but this isn’t the case for the Hrvat side. Rino’s is glad to see that none of the players on Robs Most Dangerous list are in Hrvat’s starting-9. The game starts, Hrvat short two players, and Rino’s begins to attack right away. Possession tilts in neither teams favour, but scoring opportunities in huge favour of Rinos’s – specifically Cyrus. Laurie mixes it up with a few Hrvat players and Ken decides to keep him cool and switches him with Andrew to the other wing. Hrvat receives another player midway through the first half and then their goalie delivers a goal kick to Charlie’s feet at the edge of the box. Charlie receives the pass, leaving himself 1 v 1 with the goalie. He shoots and scores. The game continues with Rino’s taking all the chances on net. Hrvat maintains a more than respectable amount of possession considering they are a man short. Jordan makes a few runs up the left side, Bligh, Brent and Peter pass comfortably around the back, and Dylan and Lenny easily distrubute middle. Nearing the end of the first half Charlie makes a run back to the center circle and collects a pass from Peter. He may or may not have taken it himself to the net, but gains position in the Hrvat box and takes a shot with his wrapped up left foot. The ball goes past the keeper and Rino’s are up 2-0. Ken makes some changes at half time and brings Zain in for Andrew on the right wing, Tim in for Cyrus up front and Sam in for Jordan at left back. Gameplay in the second half doesn’t change. Both teams are on the ball and chirping back and forth. One Hrvat player tries to get under Brent’s skin, suggesting that his gloves are “sweater gloves”. The episode ends here, in the most unlikely and unfortunate fashion. A Hrvat player checks back for the ball. He receives the pass and simultaneously a tackle. As he puts out his leg to brace the tackle his ankle collapses. The referee, unsure of the call to make, runs over to see the extremity of the injury. What looks to be a broken bone results in a red card for the tackle and the eventual Hrvat forfeit. A win for Rino’s and hopes of a speedy recovery to the Hrvat player.
Fans’ Reviews’:
Ask Cyrus’s dad or Shaan (Jordan’s wife)
Cast and Crew:
Stars: Jeff, Andrew, Brent, Cyrus, Charlie, Dylan, John B, John M, Jordan, Laurie, Lenny, Peter, Tim, Vinny, Zain, Ken, Rob,
Guest Cast: Referee, NK Hrvat
Trivia:
This episode was Tim Pritchard’s first call up of the season. The gloves used by Brent in the episode were actually knitted from a sweater his grandmother gave him 10 years ago. The first goal was actually unintentional – the original script had the Hrvat keeper kicking the ball to half.
(continuity) When the Rino players enter the dressing room before the game and look at the starting line-up it is actually titled Rino vs. Bingers. The game they are about to play is Rino vs. Hrvat, Bingers was 4 weeks prior.
Quotes:
Hrvat Player: (at Brent) Your gloves are sweater gloves.
Shaan: (at Peter) First you take out my husband, then you take out…