Last Saturday

Apologies for not getting a match report in the paper. To be honest I forgot! Despite the loss 86-27 (it was always going to to a struggle with 12 playing 11 and me as one of the backs!) I thought the second half was awesome. We showed that we can play serious rugby and as some of their players said if it had been 15 v15 they would have been worried (and beaten). Well we can make them very worried and beat them when they come up to Buxton for the return game. We all played well but special mentions go to TC for some great full back play (especially as he was our one and only back row forward) Fish who was outstanding at standoff, Tony Austin for battering them all afternoon, Jason for turning up for us when you could have had the afternoon off, and Geoff for keeping a cool head. (I'll forget the hospital pass you gave me!)

We do need to get a 15 out, especially as we are at home, but also because we can play some good rugby and start winning. So if you know anyone who has at anytime expressed even the slightest interest in playing rugby let me know and we will arrange to kidnap them on a saturday afternoon.

The Third XV who were XI were:

Jason Meir, Andy Uprichard, Dan Rose, James "Big Bird" Cavanagh, Tony Austin,Tim Charles, Geoff Ritchie, Martin Fisher, Paul Taylor, Ian Sanderson, Simon Fussell (c)

Moment of the match Tays try, I'm not sure he still believes he scored. Close second was the look of relief on the Skippers face when he realised that the side warming up were not our opponents but a Welsh Touring side.