Having arrived the previous afternoon the team were seen early. Warming and stretching their cramped muscles ready to take on, the always tough side from Otley. The warm-up as can be seen from Christian's face was what we expect from Peter Finch "Tough and Unsympathetic, there is no gain without pain, goes up the call"

The referee blew the whistle, up stepped Steve Binns and we were off. The first 120 seconds carried on from where we left off against Orrell, on the attack and at speed. The ball was moved from side to side, recycled,  driven and recycled again, just stopping short of the line. What an electric start, the fans were ecstatic!!!

The Warriors were not about to let this one slip and piled on the pressure. Once again the speed of recycling was prominent with Mark Gabey and Christian Evans really starting to make dents into the Otley defence. Once again Otley were forced back onto their line,  a change of direction from Ben Hinshelwood wrong footed the defence and he was pulled down just short of the line, in fired the Warriors, ball recycled in a flash and Mark Gabey had the easiest of jobs to dive(or was it fall) over the line for the second try. Unfortunately Craig missed the conversion.

Otley managed to kick straight out, from the resulting scrum the ball was whipped out to the left a half break from David Officer and away went Nnamdi to score in the corner. I  feel sure I saw steam coming off the grass.

The Warriors again were putting together some incredible passages of play, on every occasion making ground, at the point of tackle they were always the first there and had the ball moving again before the defence could get into position. The warriors went through a 9 phase display of awesome rugby culminating in a typically brilliant inside break from Craig Chalmers who ran fully 35 meters untouched before slipping a perfectly timed pass the ever present "sniffer" Officer who stormed over for the 5th try. Once again up stepped Craig and "stroked" it beautifully between the posts.

Very shortly afterwards "Sniffer" was there again but this time it was his speed and power which left the defence in tatters for try Number 6

Once Again The Referee Shows His Authority and Ben his Muscles

Once more The Warriors were on the defence but looked likely to score at any time. It did not take long, a quick recycle, slipped pass to Duncan Roke and he was away again. Splitting the Otley defence to shreds and who was on hand to take the glory (it wasn't that easy) you've got it "sniffer" Officer and the "Hat-Trick" try duly converted by the maestro once again.

Now came the big moment on came Richard Bates for his first outing and the last 15 minutes. Now he is big, tough and very fast as will be seen later

Yet another sequential passage of  play saw young Jon Higgins show great skill but he was pulled down before completing the break. The ball was again recycled and passed out to Craig Gilles the flying lock(whose juggling skills will now be practiced by all players), who made the break and passed out to Chris Garrard who stormed over for his 5 try of the season.

1.  The Threequarters look as if they can score from anywhere slick and confident

2.  The forwards retain and recycle ball fast and look very fast, fit and handle like the backs

3.  The tight 5 did not look so tight and found it difficult to hold Otley

4.  On their lineout we are susceptible to drives and we found the moving maul a real threat losing many yards. Luckily our back row and mid-field is very strong in defence. But we have to work on this area.

Another good win and the team is really coming together their work rate, commitment and support for each other is immense. They really do look like team going places and are hungry for the victories and glory of  THE WARRIORS

First Half Statistics

Best Sequence Of Phases 1*14, 1*11, 1*9 and  2*5

Second Half Statistics

Best Sequence Of Phases 1*6 and 1*5