Letter to the Rugby Paper

And some of us south of Watford!

Two clubs in the North West holding the top two positions in Nat 1 after struggling to gain a foothold in previous years. With a combined rugby budget of what (it appears) some clubs spend purely on coaching staff. Yep, I would saw we are delighted, but not surprised. Caldy have always been one of the most difficult teams to beat.

.......after extensive refurbishment during Covid it has now been upgraded to a 'shack'

Even Older Hooker, Graham considered that as an option but as ever the matter of finances came into the equation. 

For my part I didn't see that much of a problem with Graham's innovative suggestion that we could get 15 single rooms and 'top and tail'. However, there were a few grumbles from the players ........although to make it fair Graham had suggested pairings could be determined by lots...........it was still too big a risk for the players as none of them wanted to chance getting paired with Mr Upset Stomach

'In Graham we Trust'

Hills17 your kind words are appreciated and you are correct to say nothing is done or won yet. A very tough match against Rams on Saturday and the journey to get there is going to be an ordeal all of its own.

Easter Saturday

No trains running

Probably 100,000 Liverpool and Man City supporters travelling down the M6 

This is where team work, collective responsibility and trust in each other really matters. 

It is all down to GRAHAM......if he f**ks it up I will be writing a letter to The Rugby Paper to let everyone know

'In Graham we Trust'

Yes good club is Caldy, one of my favourites to visit. It was nice to appreciate what your club is about last month. To go down and bounce back was a great achievement and now challenging at the top. I almost wrote could be on verge of winning the league but there are still 2/3 games left for teams, i'm sure you're just thinking of the next one Big Eddie. From the two games I've seen this season, there is nothing malicious about Caldy, it was great to appreciate some nice tries the other week knowing Caldy top at the time.

Let's be honest, every club has that member we wish we didn't have (or at least pretend they were from another club). The guy writing the letter to the RP is just one of those. I think we can all see from the video that it was a red card (contact with head twice), it was also a yellow from a player who was doing what a lot of forwards do every week and either get caught, or don't. We all know that getting under the skin of your opposition is part of the game and always has been. The rest of the letter was just the whining of someone who thinks that any loss must be the fault of something other than being beaten on the day by a team playing better rugby. 

Finally I'd say, that I've only ever read the rugby paper once, it allocated three tries to the wrong player, spelled the name of one of the players incorrectly and posted a picture of a player and called him by the wrong name in the caption, so if anyone's reputation is damaged, it's more likely to be the Rugby Paper for publishing this nonsense.

The result was very tight, as befits the position of the two clubs in the league - there is still some games to go and good luck to both of you in your quest for the title (and potentially promotion - for the top two)