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Nyle shows guile as Cae play with style!

Fairwater 10-10 Cae

Fairwater? That's odd, we've never played them before? As it turned out no one had ever played them before and we were honoured to be their first opponents.
For a small suburb, Fairwater has its share of fame. Welsh rugby legend Terry Holmes hails from there and those Footie favourites John Toshack and Joe Ledley as well.
Those of us who passed our driving tests a few years back took our driving tests there at Norbury rd and it's also home to the operational arm of the best charity in Wales, the one and only St John  (does your kids school teach first aid? (Get on to the headmaster if it doesn't)

First half: Fairwater 0-10 Cae

It was now freezing and raining, just the pick me up we needed after yesterday's rugby.... but the boys didn't let it bother them one jot and flew into the opposition.
Cae were totally dominant this half and scored four tries to nil, two of the tries were chalked off for reasons that weren't immediately clear (the reasoning is still pretty blurry all these hours later) and could have scored a few more.
We dominated at ruck time and played with gay abandon in the backs. Kody notched the first, pouncing on a loose ball over the line and Tom Evans, that deadly finisher on the wing got the second.

Second half:  Fairwater 10-10

Fairwater proved quick learners this half and came back to draw as our tackling let us down on several occasions.  To be fair we didn't have the rub of the green this half, and some fifty fifty decisions went against us, and it was freezing and wet, but that's rugby at the top level for you...

Man of the match

Was Nyle for continuing his rich vein of form with an outstanding all round performance, his handling was exemplary, his support play was spot on and he never shirked a tackle in an extremely competitive match.
When asked what he put his brilliant performance down to, he replied: "Wales were so good yesterday, I wanted to play just like a mix of Liam Williams, Sam Warburton and Ross Moriarty, in fact Jim, speaking of Moriarty, and noticing that Fairwater is the birthplace of Holmes, don't you think it was criminal the way England stole the match in those dying minutes?"
Hmmm wise words indeed, but I'll do the jokes young Graham... onwards and upwards for the little green army!