:: Reserves Report - By ‘The Red Leg’.
Not perturbed by the club’s recent poor form with buses, Carts, with his first passenger Erwin riding shotgun, and the Magoos Bandwagon roared through St Kilda junction, music blaring out of their speakers.

But this was no Jenks pump up soundtrack they were playing. No Pat Benatar, no Jimmy Barnes or even the Eye of the Tiger. They were playing their favourite hit from their "Songs of a Coaching Mantra" CD.

This tune, written for Telstra (then known as Telecom) when Jenks and Gussy were still kids, which is a long, long time ago, hit the right chords with our men on the scene.

"Good, better, best," they roared with the intent and commitment they wanted the OMs Magoos to show later that morning against Marcellin. "We will never rest. Until our good is better, and our better’s best."

Meanwhile, Jenks and Gussy, the men responsible for the Old in Old Melburnians, gathered in the centre square visualising the assignment which they were presented with.

The past month has been tough for Jenks. Flights to Sydney for benders with Miles Rose, finding out team-mate and idol Simon Theodore had been arrested and that Tony Mokbel was in fact still running free, then learning that Bunny was mowing him down in the Facebook stats. But what he could not handle was how his side lost to Caulfield a month ago.

Today was redemption time, he whispered to Gussy, who nodded in approval. And their team responded in outstanding fashion in the first quarter, thanks to the Da Vinci Code. Caulfield could not decipher that when Da Vinci’s hands are on not even all the prophets combined can stop him.

"I’m on tonight, my hands don’t lie and I’m starting to mark them clean," Da Vinci was heard singing to himself his own version of Shakira’s hit.

The run continued in the second quarter but to Caulfield’s credit they dug deep and responded to give us a contest. And had it not been for the heroics of Tommy Butler and Lucas Hopkins in defence our 33-point lead at half time could have disappeared like Booma in the third quarter.

"I don’t think we understood the song Carts was singing," the best-on-ground Butler told our phantom team-mate.

"We started with better but couldn’t get to best. It was still good though. I’m confused now."

The win has moved the side to fourth on percentage, ahead of Beaumaris and Marcellin on percentage, and a game behind next week’s opponent St Kevins.

"We have to beat them. We must beat them," Benny Nicoll muttered to himself in the corner of the dressing room as he slowly built up a lather of sweat seven days before our next game. "Come on. Come on! Start fights. Punch their lights out."

Thanks to Jozza for his fearless goal umpiring, Johnny the comeback kid for running water and Millsy for his stewardship on the boundary line.

Tags: A. Waddell, Caulfield Grammarians, L. Hopkins, N. Lawler, P. Grundy, T. Butler, T. Code