Shelford 10 - Cottenham 47 

Dedication pour Denis 

Plus sans change , plus de meme chose. Nous sommes the grande cinquiemes et nous avons encore jolie. Nous arrivee a la Shelford a deux heures pour a trois heures commence avec cinquente joueurs. Le opposition sommes le Renegades de Cottenham et grande , laider et mechant. Nous commence a nous toujours commence avec une sourire sur la visage et une chanson dans notre coeur. J' ne regrette rien. Le commence au le jouer d'accord pour le grande cinquiemes mais le opposition avais le formidable fais advantage. Nous se attaient tres dur et commence a gagne le ballon. Il y a une araigne dans la baignoire. L'equilibre de le jeu a vire de une fin a le autre.Il a fallu se battre , mais on a fini par y arriver.

Sorry lads my CSE French cannot keep this up. I'll stick to my first language.

We were a mixture of experience , youth , stalwarts and rugby virgins and we played a great game of rugby. The opposition were coming off the back of a number  of good wins but after a faulty start we gave them as good as we got.  The new faces gave a good core of ability and although we played a lot of the early game on the back foot we developed and by the middle third of the game we had them in their half and scored a couple of well worked moves. 

Their tries were a mixture of well worked forward moves and 'opportunists tries but we kept coming back each time. The scrums were solid but lacked experience but we developed and even won one against the head. I would like to mention Denis , Phil (Jim) ,Sam, Jono , Joey and Crispy for giving their all under difficult circumstances and for all the others for making this afternoon an enjoyable event. Thanks lads and hope that we can do it again and again .......Written with a smile on his face by Richard Craddock.