Winners are grinners, especially with

THE Hurricanes have been called many things over the years. The Typhoons. The Gentle Zephyr. The Okehampton Bay Salmon Pirates. And perhaps my personal fav — Queue Jumpers @ Cargo Bar.

Sure, these are names I’ve called them and I make no apologies for my over-the-top imagination. But, what they can’t be called, in the now, is losers. 6 and 1 = Winners.

Heading into the season, like most other seasons of the BBL, the Hurricanes had the most impressive list on paper.

Recruitment has never been an issue for the Hobart-based team spruiked as the team for all Tasmanians. Can we pplllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaase get an AFL Team!!??

Birt, Dunk, Short — they came in and they dominated. They dismantle bowling attacks quicker, harder and faster than your wild child took to smash that Christmas Lego you spent a month piecing together.

But here’s the thing. Dunk was a one-year dynamo for the Canes. Birt the same.

In D’Arcy Short, the Canes have unearthed something special. Someone capable of repeating these thrashing performances where the bowlers are treated like the child who threw their Christmas Lego to the ground. D’Arcy is sending them to their bedrooms without dinner, in front of their friends, and then laying down a damn good thrashing with his king-sized Icon blade.

The addition of former South African captain Johan Botha was perhaps the most important signing of the past five years (outside of Short, of course). Leadership, game plans, team selection and the calmness of zen for the right