Harlow 4th XV 34 Braintree 4th XV 0 

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Saturday 23rd October 2010

A new look 4th team took to the pitch this Saturday with many normal players unavailable.  The variety of reasons for not playing were in some cases acceptable and in other cases just a little bit effeminate (you know who you are)

Danny Fitz took over the captaincy and with his team talk ringing in our ears we kicked off.  The first score arrived when Barney popped a clean ball to Chris Powell , unstoppable from 10 yards out he crashed over.  With Peggy stepping up to convert we were 7-0 up.  The dominance in the scrum was complete, Neal at hooker took ball at will, providing our Lee Smith with a constant supply of clean ball.  Next try was scored by Neal Mcm whose straight running and strong defensive tackling was constant throughout the game.

Lee Smith scored twice more in the first half, the forwards were now dominating the whole game, Barney was ruthless in the lineout, not losing any of our own throw ins and taking plenty of Braintree ball. The whole scrum was working well.  With Ben and Big Andy adding to the forwards power myself and Robbie were all over the place.

The second half saw more of the same, Dan Moseley came on for Andy and with his first touch powered over the line to score, opposition did not look pleased to see Big Dan.  Peggy converted this one as it was a bit easier for him.

Neil Mcm scored the final try to leave us 34-0.  The back line was a mixture of old and new.  Jake stepping in at fly half gave us an attacking option with Craig, Lee and Hammer providing the pace on the wings.  Special mention to Rob Jones who played a blinder at outside centre, he reckons he saw more ball in 15 minutes than in the whole of a normal game (which is weird as Neal does not usually pass it.)

Braintree are always good opposition and the game was played in good spirits.  They had plenty of pace in the backs and I suspect that our away game will be just as hard as this one.

Special mention must go to Jeff the ref, totally unbiased and talking all the time.  His pre-match warning about over-familiarity, going down well.

Comedy moments-Opposition scrum-half complaining that Danny Fitz was holding on to his opposite number(crouch, touch and let go, pause , engage) the opposition prop was horrified - I am not complaining - he squeaked.

Hammer Harrison getting pinged for not using his arms in the tackle, as ever he threw himself into the tackle, the Braintree player diving upwards and then downwards.  Got a right telling off I can tell you.

Dan Moseley scaring the defence rigid by running straight at several members of them, no one wanting to tackle him.

Tracey was trying to run off a severe vodka induced hangover, was not happy about the amount of first aid requirements.

Robbie realising that we played 10 minutes more each half than he is used to and that we had no subs(not for him anyway)

Special mention to the recipient of the chilli vodka who was spotted projectile vomiting. 

MOTM-Barney, who was all over the place.

COTM-The opposition chilli vodka boy

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