Garioch Winning the League

On the last weekend of March we had our final league game against Moray away up in Elgin. If we won this game it meant we would win the Caledonia 2 North League. We had a bit of a setback in the week leading up to the game, losing five of the Army boys who play for our team. On Thursday/Friday Peter and I managed to rally the troops and get a decent enough team to put out for Saturday.

We got up to Elgin early and had a good intense warm-up. This seems to be important for our team as it usually means we start the game well. We dominated the first 20mins before letting them back into the game before half time. We then played pretty well in the second half to close out the game 24-10 and win the league!! Continuing the trend we had another average ref for this game who seemed to be a lot harsher on our team than the other. It was like he was evening things out a bit as we were clearly better than the opposition. But in saying that, at least he wasn’t deaf/speech impaired like the one we had the week previous.

After the game we had a court session planned for back at the clubhouse in Inverurie. The Scottish boys had not had a proper court session before so Neil/Peter & had a good one planned. It was a pretty good night, having a few beers with the whole team and some good banter with them as well. I think everyone enjoyed themselves which was good to see.

Champagne flowing after winning the league.

As we have now won the league, we now have a three-way playoff to get into the next division for next year. We will play the top team from the Caledonia 2 Midlands league and one team from the Caledonia 1 league. These playoffs are scheduled  for the 20^th and 27^th of April (after our Sevens tournament on the 14^th).