This week’s guest reporter: Clare Middia

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We arrive at the final match of the league campaign and probably the last match report for a while so we’ll keep it brief and factual. We welcomed Peterborough to East Street who we narrowly lost to earlier in the season so much to avenge and finish off with a win and something to celebrate. In the news recently we heard our favourite single man entered an erection competition but only made it as far as the semi. Also he has a theory that restaurant toilets are dangerous as many of his dates have gone to use them and then just vanished!

Yet again as the two sides took to the field, the difference in size was noticeable with Olney being the smaller of them so hopefully the running game of the home side would be effective on the day. Unfortunately, Peterborough were capable of an expansive game too and with some hard runners both through the middle and out wide were able to score a number of tries in the first half. Mac Kitchener opened the scoring when he collected a Ewan Fuller cross kick flat out and beat all to the try line. Despite some fierce competition in the area between the 22m lines ‘Borough were able to exploit the wind advantage and a few errors to score 5 unanswered tries from various angles to take them well ahead leading towards the break. Olney did pull one back from a quick tapped penalty to leave the score at the break at 12-31. Eyesight problems prohibited the identity of the scorer!

The second half continued where the first left off with some frantic action and numerous tries to keep the crowd entertained to the end. Perhaps the scoreboard operator was not so entertained as he gave up when the score was 31-41 but we can’t help feeling he missed out somewhat. ‘Borough scored first from a catch and drive followed by Ted Ferris for Olney as he powered over from 30m out. When Olney failed to deal with a loose ball, ‘Borough capitalised but tries from Henry Warren and Arthur Betteridge narrowed the gap to just 10 points. Two further tries from ‘Borough, one from a sprint by their centre and another when a foot in touch was ignored, extended their lead and probably put the game out of reach. Harvey Dench grabbed one back for Olney and another from a forward drive kept increasing the score although no-one knew what it actually was. Two more scores for ‘Borough before the referee blew for no side and looking at the RFU results page, Olney lost by 41-65.
Not often a side scores 41 points and comes off second best but it happened and we move on to next season. Well done to all those who pulled on the shirt at all levels this year and hoping that we get more numbers playing next Autumn to regularly put out three senior sides on a Saturday. The future looks promising.

It’s been an interesting season but wouldn’t have been the same without the contributions from notable personalities so thanks to them and also to Haggis and James for the technical wizardry to get these reports to the person who owns up to reading them. A mention this week to Chunk Chandler who has finally opened the door to success, and finally to the legend that is Steve Howson, whose wife must be so proud of his achievements. We should celebrate his latest revelation that he was part of the royal family’s close protection squad and was regularly deployed as armed security at their official engagements. He has signed the official secrets act but if you buy him a pint he has been known to disclose a few stories of life behind the public face of the royals.

That’s it for now but in case you were unaware, apparently the colts have a game in early May. We don’t always invite comments but feel free as it helps our publicity department, but remember………….No-one ever died from being offended!

Ed - Huge thanks to the reporters for this year's reports...RIP Stanners
On that note, always say thank you every time someone does something nice for you, don't wait...you never know if you will get the chance later!