They had our pants down. The overlaps they created with the extra players made a difference we couldn’t challenge.

13/09/2014

Ground: Harbury Vs Shipston 2’s

Attendance: No Harbury people, just Steve in the bar…

Referee: A lady. A banterous lady. We called her ‘Sir’

KO: 3pm

Score: Harbury 2’s 0 – Shipston 2’s 73

Starting XV:
1. Sam 2. Adrian Exton 3. James Gaynor 4. Drunk man who turned up with Kronenborg 5. Ginger James
6. New sam 7. ????? 8. M. Holloway 9. Simon Patterson 10. D. Shinkwin
11. NO ONE
12. Mr Soaper 13. ????? 14. Thomas Robb 15. Brian (The OAP)

Report:

From the off the day was doomed. Nearly 2pm came round and there was only 5 HRFC players and the majority of the opposition.

This will no doubt be the shortest match report you will read today.

With a shortage of numbers it was up to our leader (Peck) to scour through the local drunk tanks and OAP homes to find some bodies to fill the voids in the field. He did this with glorious aplomb.

HRFC fielded a make shift set of backs, with no wings, instead opting for duel full backs, each in charge of their area of the pitch. Genius, surely this forward thinking would secure us certain victory!?!

Harbury received the kick to start the game. From here Shipston mounted an all out assault, scoring try after try. They had our pants down. The overlaps they created with the extra players made a difference we couldn’t challenge.

They even lent us a player. This made no difference. After 50 – 0, we were offered to finish the game, we defiantly said NO! What hero’s we are.

After the break we seems different, we even got near their 5m line, but with two knee ‘boo boos’ for Dan Shinkwin and Tom Robb, and Harbs down to 12 players, the game was ended.

Harbury should be proud we turned out and played, and didn’t give up. True grit in the face of certain defeat.

Lets try and get a full squad for the next games.