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Rule 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…
Shaking 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…
Benji’s eat it up at ‘t Gooi
In the last fixture of the year, the Benjis visited unfamiliar hosts ‘t Gooi Rugby Club in what looked like a normal Saturday match fixture thinly disguised as the Oliebollen Tournament. Whilst the Oliebollen was on full display at the clubhouse, these were rationed to the coaches and parents, while the boys had to played Rugby……
