Hi guys,

Well another game and yet another team, there seems to be a theme running at the moment that we can't field the same 15 from week to week. However once again the team that did take the field for this game away against Ormskirk 4th, showed just how resilliant this ever changing 3rd team is. With people out of position again and some old faces coming along to bolster the team in our hour of need Nige Goulthorpe and Jim Knighton and a friend of mine Marc coming in to help also. We managed to field 15 players, however soon after the kick off we were under the posts realising we had a game on. Ormskirk scoring within 3 minutes then putting a second score on the board shortly after. To the credit of the lads we manged to rally ourselves then and finally got into the game taking the heavy ormskirk pack on up front and taking some well earned possesion. But as we know possesion alone does not win games and some excellent moves from both forwards and backs saw Adam Williamson going over under the posts to score our only try of the game, with Jimbo stepping up for the conversion. We managed to maintain some discipline and also some good drives and rucks but unfortunately the opposition was to strong and with a very youthful bench they went on to win quite easily. The main points for us to take away from the game our that we need to work on body positions when taking the ball into contact. We got turned over far to easily to many times and maybe the lads who are regukars in training could help out by draging a few others down and maybe we could also do some simple spice drills befor we take the field in the warm up, food for thought. Another and once again a recurring theme is the lack of first up tackles and this may also need to be addressed in training, perhaps doing a little light bag work in the warm up also. But on the whole once again i was more than satisfied with the team I thought we gave a very good account of ourselves and as the problems off the pitch at the club are hopefully been addressed we may in the future be in the position to pick a team from a very good squad. The only problem then would be who to leave out as so many of you are showing just how far you have come and getting better and better. I look forward to next weekend and another home game, maybe some theme I wonder could it be to early for handbag day.

your's Carlos (captain)