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Albion 34 - 21 TJs FT

Unable to go to Guernsey (to watch Esher) I instead went to Rosslyn Park to watch their top of the table clash with Caldy. 

As a neutral, it was brilliant to watch - I really enjoyed the whole match. 

Sadly, the likely turning point was when Park’s 14 dropped his knee twice on the head of a Caldy player holding him into a ruck - 5m from the lino.  The Caldy player got a yellow card and the Park player received red.

Great day out......I was unexpectedly and undeservedly elevated to the top table for lunch, great hospitality from Nick Goddard and his wife Sian. Delighted that Nick had fallen hook line and sinker for Caldy's spoof April 1 match preview .

It was a full blooded game with Caldy's defence and greater intensity winning the day. The sun was shining and Caldy arrived with the promised 'hundreds' of 'noisy and vociferous' supporters. 

Thankfully Graham's expert logistics got us all back to Euston in time for the 7.07 to Liverpool. 

There will be sore heads today but luckily not for me...as I have repeatedly told my doctors I am only an occasional drinker.......

A few amongst the Caldy contingent may not be able to hold a sensible conversation for a while

Way too early to consider a trip to Jersey as anything more than a possibility. Bishop Stortford, Rams and Sale still to play and will certainly need 3 wins and probably at least one or two with a bonus point to still be in the mix. 

However, the Ravers live in the moment, one game at a time. Never beaten Bishop Stortford at Paton Field and after yesterday's intensity will there be a hangover ? Plenty amongst the Caldy supporters!

The great day out in the Capital was only marred for me by one incident. I was warned that previous Caldy visits to the Rock have seen extremes of weather. I went prepared with a choice stout shoes or trainers and light weight fleece or fluorescent waterproof jacket.

Rosslyn Park's cloak room rail was invaluable although clearly wasn't secure. To the perpetrator who stole my trainers and hi viz jacket ......"You can run but you can't hide'

Yes....I only expected about half a dozen to travel but in fact there was about 50 who came down for the day and probably two or three hundred more Caldy people who now live in London. One ex Caldy player Richard Mahony who was captain of Rosslyn Park for 2 or 3 years around 2006 came to cheer on one of the sides but pre match he was somewhat coy about which side he would be supporting......

The 300+ Caldy supporters who cheered on the Ravers helped to create a very good atmosphere and swelled Rosslyn Park's coffers.

Attendance figures are often an interesting mixture of guesswork and fantasy. We have a clicker count of 926 on the gates for Sale FC vs Cinderford, whereas I suspect the Rugby Paper has us lower. members and under 18's get in free, so sometimes official numbers are vastly different to reported numbers based on gate receipts. For example our pre-christmas game against Caldy has an attendance figure of 416. Well, given that we had 190 pre-match hospitality upstairs and Caldy turned up with a big number of supporters, I suspect the figure was closer to 1000 than 400.