. Matson 16-13 North Petherton
My plan on Saturday was to make the trip to Redwell Road to watch this game but with my diy project taking rather longer than anticipated i unfortunately missed this contest. Normally in my paper, on a Sunday, usually there is a write-up on most games in this division but typical, this week there was nothing. With Matson knocking over many teams recently in the top half of the table hopefully this will be enough to starve of the dreaded drop and with a trip to top of the table Cleve next week you would not bet against them getting something there.
With a planned trip to the coast next week with my dear wife, that’s it for me, for Saturday rugby this season, but there is still plenty of stuff going on in local with the Combination cup now in full flow. At first xv level Tuesday, is semi final day with Spartans looking to take another scalp from a higher league when they entertain Chosen Hill and Old Cents make the short journey up to Redwell Road to face the “men in black”. The seconds are still at the quarter final stage on Wednesday but the thirds will play their semi finals on Thursday, once again Cents meet Matson but only this time it will be back at sea level, down at the “stade de bridge” and over at the memorial ground Widden host Dowtys, no doubt the evergreen Dave Easterbrook will have one eye on a run out at kingsholm but I’m sure Dowtys with have different take on things. Full details of all the fixtures can be found on the Combination Web page.
I must put people back in the picture regarding our Chairman of the referee’s society, Mr Adrian “Magde” Danks who is still recovering from his ankle operation back last July. Madge recently had the mecano frame and pins from his leg removed and is now sporting a plaster cast for the next few weeks. To remove the pins is a rather painful process I’m told and Madge did plead with his doctor to “knock him out” while he performed this procedure, even going down on one knee but this fell on deaf ears and the pins were duly removed with mage wide awake, screams could be heard out a Westgate Bridge! What magde did not realise was that the dear Doctor had been paid a “wedge” by some of his fellow chums in the society as well as a few players in local who insisted that he should suffer some pain just like they had to over the years! And then to cap it all when the screen was removed by the nurses after putting on Adrians new plaster imagine the look on his face when he seen the colour of it, “Bell-end” Purple, yes “Bell-end” Purple!!!! Why on earth would they do something like this, maybe they had been got at like the doctor, who knows?
So that’s it for me for this coloum, this season, many thanks to the clubs and people in local that have looked after me during my travels around the town as well as those of you who take the time to read my blog and those who have appeared over the season in print. All in good humour! Hope to see some of you on the touchlines during the next few weeks as well as at Kingsholm on finals day.
Cheers Dave