20/04/10

The day starts at an ungodly hour, 6:45am, however expectations of a match against a Saturday League team encourages me to made an English breakfast. Truly splendid food with 3 sausages, bacon, bean beans, a duck fried egg (extra protein in these {man on the street told me that}) and some toast. And of course the protein shake! I might be the next Heston Blumenthal when it comes to protein…

Slightly nervy about the match today due to fact that these guys / old-men are probably heavier, uglier and definitely know all the tricks in the book in terms of making you feel the pain through and through.

Once again the morning and afternoon is spent revising for the exams… although this was made exciting from the fact of the day (found out on one of my numerous breaks from revision). Today is Adolf Hitler’s Birthday… let me go on… this is slightly unfortunate as there is another member of the club with the same birthday. No need to mention names but that fact definitely spanked my balls out the park!

Anyway the time slowly encroaches the 5.15pm meet time… give myself an hour to make some risotto with some chicken left over from the evening before. Leek and mushroom risotto with a breast of chicken (even Jamie Oliver would have been pleased with this one, considering it was from his cook book he should be!)

Late. Only by 10 minutes though. 35 lads wait by the James College cashpoint and there must be about a dozen cars… and out of those dozen cars we all decided to follow Mr Handy Andy. Sense of direction = bad. Avoidance of traffic = bad. Got us there finally = all right I suppose.

As one rightly knowing driver in his little red polo said; “When we started the journey I knew we should of turned left and not right”

Finally, the match. Hard is what I can say. Bodies bruised, joints ache, heads dizzy all in a day’s work for the UYRUFCans who won this tightly fought match till the very end. Heard there may be a match report if the Webmaster gets on it properly. A couple words I would say; Dash got bumped to the amusement of the crowd, Brian made his first break for about 5 years only to screw up his pass, and oh my god where did Bummer get his boots from to kick a conversion from the touchline??

Anyway long day and I got to prepare for the ruggers tomorrow!

Peace out UYRUFC Town,

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19/04/2010

Previous to this it was all about the gym work and getting my passing, tackling and running right for those big moments on the 9th of May. So far I’ve been hitting it hard in the gym and also having the stress of exams on my shoulders (as an additional motivation)… Lancaster University, what bloody idiots for moving Roses into the middle of an exam period. Ah well got to get on with it.

7:30am start in the gym, working on balance and core was the session for the day. An hour and a half session and that’s enough, get the protein onboard and then a full English at the Lloyds seemed like a good idea, only for the practice fire alarm to go off halfway through my breakfast (and it was raining outside). The guy who decided that must of studied at Lancaster, once again stupid timing.

And so, to hit the studies… still have Roses on the mind though. Training for the past 3-4 weeks in hardcore preparation for the big game I suddenly feel the butterflies in my stomach as 4pm approaches. The 5 minute run was the rumour of the day, typical style of the captain, making the squad do a huge exercise day before a practice game, good thing there aren’t any mountains near here… As some say “Pain is Weakness leaving the body”.

4pm Roses training begins. A good turn out considering University hasn’t even started yet, must have been at least 40 of the boys around, and most are arriving tomorrow. The Hut and Wall-e still has the ginger hair that they got on tour and WP thought he could get away with dying his hair back, but that backfired as he now looks like one of those Grundgers that you find down in Tufnell Park at the Dome with that silly dyed hair! Anyway back to the training…

A great relief to begin with as el captaino declares that we aren’t doing the 5 min run due to the match tomorrow. Great news, didn’t feel like the run would be a good start to the week! Some touch rugby to begin with, and then the warm-up. Alec is preparing the training sess in his brightly red coloured fleece and immediately complains of the length of time he has had off over Easter, “Now none of you talk about the Easter Holidays with me, I had Easter Sunday and Easter Monday off and that’s it!”. Sorry Alec, just seeing if your holidays were ok…

Immediately into a handling drill, slightly rusty but soon cleaned up. The only problem was that some of the boys found following the correct ball a hassle as they were coming in from all directions.

To finish up with we split up into Forwards and Backs. With some hard graft we were soon back into the rhythm again. Now to shower up and get some munch on, chicken and egg fry rice was the menu for the evening. Great munch.

End of the day and the week has begun well with not injuries in sight. The club would like to wish the rest of the boys good luck getting back to York from abroad, rumours has it that some are travelling all over Africa to get back via Morocco, then Greece and then a ferry to Sunderland… while others are just enjoying France and waiting for the next plane… however we all hope you make it in time for Roses, damn acts of God.

On another note tomorrow we are playing against York City 2nd Team so if you fancy watching an evening game that kicks of at 7pm come along to Clifton Park Shipton Road York Yorkshire YO30 5RE. The team playing is;

1. Luke Braizer
2. Ash Alexander
3. Chris Reid Meilligan
4. Alex Redshaw
5. Will Forsythe
6. Alistar Handy
7. Will Tate
8. Tom Weir
9. Tim Walker
10. James Mortimer
11. Richard Bremner
12. Will Felgate
13. Michael James
14. Gabriel A.
15. Thomas Bugge
16. Sam Carr-Archer
17. Guy Holder-Williams
18. Sam Morrison
19. Rishi
20. Adam Wood
21. Will Peters
22. Ed Drewett
23. Matt Pollen
24. Pete Terraga
25. Ben Turner
26. Tim Murris

Your Truely

Scuttlebutt Lad

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