Fixtures and Results

28/01/2006 - Osterley 28 v Northolt 33

In case you're still confused this is the gist of what went down on Saturday....

By kick off 6 players had dropped out from Tommo's original 18. So we thought we had 12 players so we had a team meeting and decided that we would have a "crack" rather than conceding the game straight away. Luckily for us Tommo can't count and when Geoff turned up just before kick-off we actually had 13...... we were so happy:) only the 2 man overlap to deal with then!

However as Tommo had yet again spent his Saturday morning ringing everyone he knew (apparently he even trolled the police cells offering a pardon to anyone who played!) he forgot one critical thing... he didn't tape his ears. Anyone who has played with Osterley will know that Tommo always tapes his ears......unfortunately not just for the man himself, or the team that day, but for the future of our club, on Saturday he didn't.

So 13 brave souls took to the field and played out of their skins. Every player gave 150% and at times you would have thought that we had the overlap not Northolt. We opened the score sheet with a try and from then on every time they scored we scored again. Geoff yet again had a great game scoring two tries, long kicks out of trouble and some nifty passing. Nick also had a great debut in the centres and we look forward to his return in the Easter, But my positive memory of the day had to be Welsh prop Rich tearing down the right wing to receive the final pass of a great attack, in full flight and a face full of determination no-one was going to stop him......and they didn't ! A very memorable try which highlighted the effort the forwards put in that day.

In the second half Northolt had the downward slope and used their "Large" forwards to good effect. Two drives near our line resulted in tries and they took the lead. Unfortunately this time we were unable to regain it but came close on several occasions. Then, with 10mins left to play it happened....Hannibal struck! and Tommo's ear was ripped, the doctors told Tommo that the last time they'd seen this type of injury was after a hammer attack! So now we were down to 12, bad news for Northolt as we were now fuming and the best revenge came with the last try of the game to Osterley.

So there the story ends Osterley 28 - Northolt 33 Tommo 12 (stitches that is!)