GOLDEN POINT. Full time at Queensland Country Bank Stadium, and the birthday fixture has gone to the wire. The Field never scored. The Field never really looked like scoring.
A career, named on the team sheet. Bench spots are not a comment on form.
Current club. Senior Software Engineer. Ships features with Marc-Antoine Roy. Official bio on the club website: 'Lorem ipsum.'
Workplace safety and compliance software. A reliable run in the forwards.
Fresh legs. Warming up in case of injury.
Also on the bench. Depth, they call it.
The season, reduced to a stat panel. Handle with care.
Across the season, at all hours of the night.
Reviewed, merged, shipped. Release notes credit 'Team · Marc & Keegan.'
The footer bio. It still says 'Lorem ipsum.'
A number that has not moved in over a decade.
It was never going to be pretty, and it wasn't. In front of a packed Queensland Country Bank Stadium, the home side did what home sides do: they turned up, they ran the numbers, and they refused to lose.
The opening exchanges were cautious. Keegan, playing fullback for the Relume Cowboys, kept his composure under pressure, moving the ball through the hands of Marc-Antoine Roy and finding space where there was none. The commentators noted his footwork. The stats sheet noted his commits.
There were worrying signs in the second half. A historic 82-12 loss to the Roosters earlier in the season had briefly dropped the club to ninth, and you could feel the memory of it in the stands. But the home side held. They clung to eighth with two rounds to play, hot and cold, the way you'd expect from a side that hasn't won a premiership since 2015.
And then, with the siren looming, it happened. A golden point. Keegan [AGE] — The Field 0. The Field never scored. The Field never really looked like scoring. But that's the thing about golden point: it only takes one.
Post-match, the club's official bio still read 'Lorem ipsum.' Some things don't change. Some things don't need to.
The season's highlights, in release-note form. Changelog is a love language.
Ships features with Nick Flower. Release notes credit 'Team · Marc & Keegan.'
Bio updated to... 'Lorem ipsum.' The footer still says 'Lorem ipsum.'
Side project and domain: cloudpixel.com.au.
A forked PHP site from undergrad. Still in the repo. Some things are for keeps.
A bit. Obviously. No real quotes from real named people were harmed in the making of this section.
I've seen him bring up the 2015 premiership unprompted. Three times. In one standup.
He takes pride in everything he creates and respects everything he does not. I checked. It's right there in the bio.
The Field never scored. I was there. I am the Field.