With the trials and tribulations of trying to find a game for both the 3rd’s and the vets not coming to anything as both teams had heard of the might of the modern’s men young and old and gone crying to their Mummy. So with the thought of over thirty men twiddling their thumbs or worse having to go on the dreaded shopping trip the decision was made to pitch young against experience.
The game was overseen by JB and it was never going to be an easy task at the best of times but everyone was here for a game and a game it certainly was. It was experience that started off the stronger running in the first try. However youth was hot on their heels and equalised soon after.
The experienced hands were ensuring that the youth never gained any quick ball and turning ball over that even David Blaine would have been impressed with how that came out on their side?! The rest of the half was won by the experience and finished the half 4 tries to 1 up. The half time team talk was more about if you can’t beat them, join them and playing the ref to ensure that some ball actually came back on our side. And so kick off, and it was the youth that came out and had decided to play moving the ball around with abandon from one side to the next, a very nice chip from Ed Moran finished off by someone else finished the best try of the day from either side.
For some reason this should have sprung youth into more like this and the tide would have changed, however the vets successfully killed the ball at the breakdown slowing the momentum back in their favour.
Tries from them and us rounded off the score at 49-27 or something like that. A triumph for experience over youth, although the youth looked at the line sporting to ex pro’s and felt quite a bit of pride finishing the game with 13. MOTM for us: From one of the opponents, Matt Vaughan. Quote ‘I don’t see as well as I used to, but I saw him getting round the park’ DOTD: Goes to me for thinking I was somewhere else calling an 87 and not letting anyone else know! Although If maverick had caught it would have been a different story. MOTM for them (from us): Nick Carrol, still pulling the strings!
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