Archive for January 2016
Putting in the Tackles
After a week of fog and frost, there was sunshine in Leiden for a morning of matches against DIOK A & B and HRC. Tackling was the word of the day with the BSN teams winning four and losing one. The man of the match performers, Cammy and Duncan, put in the biggest and most…
Read MoreRule Number Nine
In cycling circles, if you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are hardcore. This is known as the ninth rule of cycling. So when the rugby is cancelled because the pitches are water logged, but you get up on a Saturday morning to play friendly training games on Scheveningen beach in the…
Read MoreShaking off the Tinsel
One week into the New Year and everyone was still carrying the holiday’s excesses in body, mind and spirit. There is some suggestion that a Christmas break helps to keep the players fresh, but not on this evidence. HRC turned up at Sparta. Pity that they’d missed the message that the games had been changed…
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