RUGBY LEAGUE
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TIM Bassmann swears his CYMS teammates, somewhere between round one and Sunday’s Group 10 grand final against Lithgow, forgot the art of passing.
Any tryless fullback would.
Then, on the biggest day of the season, the longest drought in a glittering Group 10 career broke - and the four-pointer that did it still didn’t come from a pass.
Bassmann pounced on a Mick Sullivan grubber kick to score the best try of the 2015 grand final - a cracking 50-metre effort - helping the green and golds secure a 14-10 win and this year’s premiership.
“Who would have thought,” Bassmann smiled after Sunday’s victory.
“I’ve got some boys over here who’d been dummying all year, and finally Sully looked after me and put one through.
VIDEO: Tim Bassmann speaks after Sunday's grand final win:
“I’ll still be getting nude I’d say,” Bassmann added, the dreaded nudie run for any player who hasn’t scored a try all year.
“They won’t let me live that one down.”
Bassmann has been a key figure in all of CYMS’ four title wins since 2010, and for a player who’d suffered a shocking record throughout junior footy - he’d won just one from eight junior grand finals - it’s a winning run he’s very proud of.
“You wouldn’t dream of it,” he said.
“Most blokes wouldn’t dream of winning one, but I’ve been lucky enough to be around a pretty special group of blokes, and we’re all mates and we’ll all be mates forever.
VIDEO: Tim Bassmann helps set up the match-winning try for Sam Hill:
“That’s a lot of reason why we’ve been so successful as well, we’re all so close. We went through the rough stuff early on, and it’s made us stronger.”
Bassmann said Sunday’s four-point win over a massive Lithgow outfit was the most physical of all four grand final-winning games he’d been part of.
“Look at the end of it,” he said pointing to the fracas on full-time.
“I’m glad I was out the back there with Jono [Van Veen] doing nothing.”
