A rearranged fixture in appalling conditions at London Wasps, but the boys were undeterred and came out of the day with considerable credit. It was particularly pleasing to see that our turnout of 30 players was easily the highest of the 3 clubs; and that Wasps have now invited us for a friendly next season. Overall, the forwards did more than hold their own although we did cough up possession occasionally (hardly surprising given the conditions). The backs performance was a bit laboured but again the conditions weren't conducive to running rugby. We were able to play 3 shortened games on the day:

London Wasps A 0 - 7 Wimbledon A
Wasps probably dominated the first half, with Wimbledon playing with the wind and rain in their faces. The ball was held up more than once after Wasps camped on our line for considerable periods. Ben Cantello pulled off a textbook tackle to deny the Wasps fly half a certain try. In the second half, the deadlock was broken when Charlie McKibben picked up at the back of the scrum and ran two-thirds of the pitch to score. A great start to the day.

London Wasps B 19 - 0 Wimbledon B
A very strong-looking Wasps B side was too much for Wimbledon in the first half. All credit to our boys for bringing down the huge Wasps no16 on a couple of occasions, but they were still able to force through for 3 tries in the half. Coming out for the second half, a much improved Wimbledon performance had us prevent any further scores although we were unable to score ourselves.

Wimbledon A/B 12 - 7 London Welsh
The third game of the day saw us put out a strong A/B side against the Welsh. The first half was even, with the Welsh scoring to cancel out the excellent run and try by Sam Codling from the wing. In the second half, the result was secured by a speculative chip over the defence by Max Tomlinson that was chased down and grounded by Nick Shuttleworth who was particularly active in both attack and defence all day.

Finally the report would not be complete without mentioning the highlight of the day for most of the boys. Which was , of course, discovering a frog under a woodpile and chasing it for about 20 minutes before it finally made its escape.. .