Cheshunt fulfilled this fixture despite only having 11 players on the Thursday night. They supplemented their numbers with some youngsters, who on first inspection looked a bit quick.

The problems started straight away, without a front row Cheshunt asked for uncontested scrums, not good news for us 4th team players. Open running rugby not really being our strength. The first half was not particularly exciting and we turned round at half time 5-0 up.

The second half got off to a great start with the Mark the fat fly half putting our newly replaced centre Another Mark in for a try. The next score came from a rolling mall, Harlow had dominated the line out all afternoon with Swampy collecting not only all of our ball but most of the oppositions as well. Gaggy had replaced Mex at scrum half (due to a gout problem) he snuck down the blind side and scored in the corner.

The last score for Harlow came when Steve,outside center ran half way down the pitch only to drop the ball in the tackle( being generous here I think, it was too far away for me to see) it was picked up and we scored again. Cheshunt scored after a prolonged period of pressure close to the Harlow line. A series of penalties sucked in the defence and their second row crashed over to score. Cheshunt do not concede many points whenever they play so it was nice to put a few on them. Swampy had the look of death about him when someone tried to remove his eyeball with their thumb, someone was going to die, the next restart saw a somewhat unhappy Swampy chase the 22 drop out, Steff beat him to nailing the bloke who caught it, so he had to make do with helping the young man into touch in a delicate and thoughtful way.

A word of caution, if Swampy ever looks at you with his famous 1000 yard stare don't make any sudden movements, especially towards a rugby ball, he has been known to froth at the mouth just before he dump tackles you and takes the ball off you (in a nice way though).

Physio Steve commented on how many different neoprene supports you can get these days, examples of which are plain to see at a 4th team game, its what holds us together, that and gaffer tape anyway.

Team list: Chris, Pete, Darren, Phil, Barney, Swampy, Ram, Gaggy, Jeff, Mex, Mark, Another, Mark, Steve, Steff, Rupert, John, Glen, Al Knightly, Karl, Freddy.