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It seems that down in the Southern Lions neighbourhood they attract some pretty strange fellows to official positions.
Let me tell you a true story. It happened this week
On Saturday, the Lions' big opening day at Success (and congratulations by the way), Palmyra under 18s turned up to do battle with their Lion peers.
It turned out to be a fairly depressing affair for the Lions as they were beaten by a substantial margin. But that's the way it goes, and no doubt they'll win next time, or the time after that.
However the Lions' official didn't see it that way. This was not in accordance with the script he had written himself, and he had to put things to right.
So he went home with his copy of the Palmyra teamsheet and trawled the net.
He trawled and trawled, googling all the names of the Palmyra players and looking up each of their Facebook pages, and no doubt Bebo, Twitter, Myspace, and other personal sites as well. His detective work was more thorough than that of a Pedo looking for prey.
And then Bingo! he stuck gold! One of the Pally boys stated on his site he was born in 1991! 1991! He was overage!
Breathlessly the Lions official penned off a missive to RugbyWA, bemoaning the injustice, bewailing the unfairness, and demanding that Palmyra be stripped of its competition points from the game and that they be awarded to the Lions. Not forgetting, of course, the bonus point.
It never occured to the official that anything on Facebook could possibly be untrue, that kids might exaggerate their age to impress their mates and the chicks, or that people simply don't want to give correct personal details of themselves on public sites.
Or that kids might be a little smarter than he, in seeking to protect themselves from potential predators and others trawling their site uninvited.
RugbyWA naturally took his complaint with the utmost seriousness (yes, truly) and sent off a please explain letter to Palmyra, who responded by referring RugbyWA to the Western Australian birth certificate RugbyWA had on file indicating the lad was in fact born in 1992.
RugbyWA however apparently are not satisfied with what passes for proof in any Court of Law.They apparently believe in inverting the burden of proof. It is the accused who must prove his innocence, not the accuser who must prove his case.
Does he have any other identification , they ask? How can we accept his parents' word and an official Birth Certificate in the face of the irrefutable evidence of a random Facebook post?
Heavens to Murgatroyd, this has legs, a scandal worthy of a Glenn Milne article in a News Limited tabloid!
I'll keep you posted of the results of the Lions' equivalent of the breaking of Watergate, and the Union's version of Much Ado About Nothing.