And after what feels like an entirety, we now have the finally part of the series - with 2nd XV manager Martin Pritchard reviews the highs, lows and madness of the season.

Highlights of the 19/20 season

Highlights of the season are plentiful. Usually turning up to find we had 15 and sometimes 16 players is always a highlight.

Also seeing players break into the first team... there have been a number of players making debuts for the firsts and it goes to prove that we must keep the 2XV active, as we are imperative to the club’s survival.

Lowlights of the 19/20 season

Turning up to Leeds Corinthians with only 9 players, started at 14 on Friday night but slowly one by one players disappeared.

Corinthians were helpful and keen, they and only had 12 so we played 11 v 10, stuck in there for much of the game but they ran away with it in the end, that extra player told. The pitch was also massive for so few, while there were a number of injuries picked up, including Frency who was out for the majority of the rest of the season

Another lowlight, playing Old Brodleians 3XV (The Beavers) on three occasions, each time seeing the young fly-half (lead to believe he was on the books at Wakefield Trinity), was playing and dictating the match. He is a first team player if ever I saw one, only he is not interested in playing at a higher standard at the moment. Got closer each time, but never won a game.

Favourite game of the 19/20 season

To be honest, I’ve a couple of these...

Beating Airebough at home, starting with less players, then once up to a full side dominating the game.
The last game against Bramley Phoenix, a great game played in the right spirt (they lent us two), and finally getting Diarmuid (my youngest) to leave the boxing ring and cross over the white line.

Funniest moment of the 19/20 season

Realising we had beaten Airborough away, it had been such an end to end game that we had lost track of the score. Aireborough went over for a try with the last play and we thought that was it. Only to find out we had won. Happy days

Me being picked for the first team hooker, obviously so short that all other avenues had been investigated, heard Ralph Pollard had been asked but he was otherwise engaged.

If you could change one moment/thing from the 19/20 season

How it ended, the week before playing Bramley Phoenix we had a great game, good opposition, good ref, and although I think everyone realised it might be the last game of the season and for some time it felt like the team was getting back on its feet.

What are you looking forward the most about the new season when it returns?

Again, several things...

Getting together as a group
Having a greater identity for the 2XV
Me turning up on time, won’t ever happen
On a personal note, trying to get all my lads playing in one game with me. Probably impossible task as one will not leave the football field, the other prefers boxing and one down in the Big Smoke. I will just have to keep trying.