Score: Chobham II 26 - BBBRFC 26

Chobham II were a big, physical outfit who appeared to be well drilled. However the Black Baa Baas seemed to be troubled by the referee more than the opposition. Simon Slee was picked out first for the Refs treatment, feeling a touch left out Richard Little tried desperately to get the refs full wrath. Acknowledging fairly soon on that despite they're size they weren't going to trouble us too much, Trevor bulldozed his way over the Chobham try line to score our first try which was to be converted. In the second half Haydn made a three yard dash from the base of a ruck to go over in the corner for the second try.

Things were looking rosy when Chobham mounted a full on assault and crept back up the score board and overtook us. Roger Smith answered this as the human ping pong ball scored a terrific try with a solo effort. The Black Baa Baas were trailing 7 points right up to the final minute when Steve Jackson went over the Chobham line and had the foresight to touch the ball down close to the posts. The whole match now rested on the final conversion; Jules Samuel calmly addressed the ball and whilst the ball did hover over the T-bar for few agonising moments it eventually went through to draw the match. This won't go down as one of the Black Baa Baas finest performances but we were happy to walk away with a draw.

Ed Culley