Apologies, but due to an injury crisis as massive as browny's chest, our senior colt heros had no fixture this week, so lets have a catch up before xmas of the shinanigans in and around the section.

Tuesdays training was a new high. Our friends from the south set up some great training for the chaps. Even comedy relic, and fat lad, perie had a trot out, nearly decapitating tyler "agricaultural" knowles in the game of touch (happy birthday buddy) but as ever a good time was had by all! Thursday saw our senior chums, along with sensai's milner and whitehead looking after us yet once more, in some less than clement conditions, well done all concerned!

With the weekend upon us, bradders and beiber joined up with the development xv, and young dane"dave, dale, blen, blenky" blenkharn, helping our senior chums with keeping the ball dry, and water carrying duties! With no rugby to look forward to perie found homself a bit glum, so decided that a pint of his favourite lancaster brewery shandy would cheer him up (as it would all of us this xmas-only on moderation though reader), so set off on a hunt for this promised land! With no luck finding it in town, perie bumped into young daneo, who deciced to help his old rotund chum in his quest. Although not finding any of the nector, the 2 of them found section figurehead and cult hero liam hayton, some of their senior section chums, and brothers beiber and bradders during the evening, so much merriment ensued for one and all!

Challenge bradders - skipper - daneo - perie

Sunday appeared, and a challenge xmas special was arranged.

After that great rugby favourite warm up of "the pointless trotting about and kicking of balls, although non of us actually kick the ball" was successfully negotiated, the chaps and perie started their "crapton - sorry krypton factoresq" challenge.

Challenge one - kick the ball in to the tyres challenge. Surprisingly, this involves each person from a distance of 25 metres, kicking a ball into the tyres! Perie feeling tremendously confident about this challange said that everyone of the balls the lads successfully managed they would earn a round of the lancaster product, butif he manages it, they would have to get him the same amount! confidence is a fickle thing dear reader, as the first attempt from skipper went straight in to the tyre! Followed by the second man up bradders doing exactly the same thing! As you can imagine the bastion of sporting behavior congratulated his young charges, or words to that extent!

Challenge 2 - rugby golf.

A suggestion from bradders, that we all took turns to drop kick, punt, and pass the ball up the pitch through both sets if uprights. All 4 managed with varing degrees of success to this challenge, but the main thing was sport was the winner!

Challange 3 - pass the ball through the tyres

Again perie suggested the traditional lancaster wager was reinstated, then wished he had kept his mouth shut when bradders managed the skill!

Challenge 4 - the conversion attempt with a difference

The difference this time reader is that the attempts were from a position periously close to the tyres on the development lagoon! A slightly bizarre historical "toe neb" technique was employed by perie (a man who does doff his cap to yesteryear", skipper and dane " danny, daneo, denzil, blinkyblenky" blenkharn opted for a more classically advanced style, where as bradders went for a more "go large, or go home" technique, that nearly ended up with him going to the hospital, as he somehow managed to end up with his foot on top of a stack of tyres!

Last challenge - the adventure course conversion.

Perie now feeling brave, suggested that the wager came back into play, and the ball should be kicked from a central position, after a odd concept of exercise ( nope me either!). The path way was, run from the ball, zig zag through the tyres far right, cut left, run round the large tyre 3 times, head back through the posts, but first attempt a comedy skill at the last tyre, sprint back round the ball, and hit it without stopping! Perie set off first in his trademark slow motion sprint. Appraoching the final tyre he chose the comedy side step (still a good mover for a big man - its all in the hips) ran round though flagging, and toe nebbed the ball directly left, further away than the starting position!
Skipper next. He went for a combination jump on, and off the final tyre, then struck the ball straight and true, only problem was it was staight and true along the floor!
Dane "dennis, darren, derrick, buntyblenks" had a go, attempting a slightly more audatious skill of on to, into, out of the tyre (style over substance, i like his thinking), and again a worm burner of an effort, just slightly more wayward than skippers go!
Bradders took the final challenge last. Being the uber corithian ( or words to that effect ) he decided to place the ball flat, as his skill, do a commando roll, before kicking the ball. God only knows where it went, as we were all still in fits of laughter! A fitting end to the day, bar we had some of the kids party leftovers (food not bodies) and steph asked for bradders' t shirt for a game, which we are still trying to work out why!?!

As ever a few thankyou's. Gill for the food, and being willing to put this drivell on t'web, blackburn for being great about things, the ladies section,the emma's for the percy, leacock for admitting to reading this (named/shamed),ali for the same reason, the whole senior section, coaches included, morecambe high's finest, mr Wilson and his lovely form class,ian "saint" thompson for the sponsorship, the lancaster brewery, and john 'sbs' uttley (with his products you know you'll be protected from the weather this winter) for the continued support across all the club sections.
Finally you dear reader, please have a lovely xmas and new year, may santa's sack be bulging for you! Also all the best to nick milner, and matty 'beiber' kaye on their charity run. There's still time to sponsor the chaps for a really worthy cause.

Cheers til next time

Arth