Well it has been a week since the first newsletter and as promised here is the 2nd, This week we’ve trained, played an international match and experienced a 10’s tournament at Coalville!! Not too mention the fact we now have a POOL table at the Rugby club and Deano is running a pool competition so get your name down if you fancy your chances of being the next Leicester Forest Pool King!!

The Chinese visit was a good occasion, we trained with them in the form of a sevens match, whereby it quickly became apparent that they were bloody good!! Well fit and fast!! We later found out that they have three players who run the 100m in under 10.6 seconds!!! (We had our own international winger, Harold, from Barbados, who told us his Personal best for the 100m was just under 14 seconds!!!!) anyway, we then treated the Chinese visitors to our favourite club gourmet dish of…. Sausages!!! The highlight of the evening was seeing Tom Vesty trying to explain the rules of Pool to two Chinese players who clearly couldn’t speak a word of English!!!

The Seniors all embarked on a trip to the annual Coalville 10’s tournament and armed with two sides hoping for some match fitness and to do well at this tournament, first up for the A side was Coalville, and after the first two minutes it became apparent the team needed to adapt to 10’s a little quicker, already 4 tries down!!! We did fight back though at the end of the first half and in the 2nd half we pulled right back to 4 tries all before a lucky bounce gave Coalville the win in the first game 5 tries to 4!!

The second game was much better however and the lads duly beat a strong Hinckley side 2 tries to 1. The next two games were good wins over Sheffield B team and Anstey, but we came unstuck against a stubborn Syston side losing 3 tries to 0 and finishing the game with a whole host of injuries!! The Ambulance spent more time on the pitch than the players themselves and we hope that all the injured players, Kirky, Jaime Coulthurst and Richard Fox get back out onto the pitch soon!!!

The A team’s reward for losing to Syston was 3rd place and a semi final game against Belgrave (who the B team had already beaten) unfortunately, we were dogged with Injuries and went out of the competition losing to Belgrave!!

The B team were faced with some stiff challenges from a strong Sheffield side, Old Newts and Hinckley, all of which saw our boys just beaten. They did manage two high points in beating Belgrave and Shepshed. The sight of Shaun B controlling the backs was very encouraging, as were the performances of several of the squads younger players! Harold the international led the try scoring charts with two.

This week will see the club continuing with its efforts to bring in some additional players and prepare for the start of the season and Melton in the warm up game with training on Tuesday and Thursday evening.

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