A gritty and determined performance from a well balanced Oldfield side saw them exact revenge for a narrow away defeat, earlier this season.

Yatton started the game strongly with hard running from their inside centre causing all manner of problems for the home defence. Playing into a blustery wind, Oldfield's Peter Pan, Pat Bunton tried a little grubber in behind the Yatton defence, but this went horribly wrong as it was gathered by the Yatton 12, who ran in for an unconverted score. Jase, for the record it was on, it was just unlucky (well.....shit) execution!

A Yatton penalty stretched their lead to 8-0, but Oldfield stuck to their game plan and kept trying to play good rugby. Quick ball from the top of a line out was shifted via Birdy to Bunton, who timed a defence splitting switch move with Clint (aka Judy) to perfection. Judy swung his way up the middle in a typical ‘bosh, bounce, bosh’ fashion and as the ball was recycled quickly Murph miraculously popped up on Bunton’s shoulder, to stagger on a few more yards. As he tripped and fell the ball was jarred free and a sweeping move down the right, saw goal hanging winger Farmer Patrick, flip the ball back inside to Tom Chapman for a score.

The try was unconverted, but Oldfield was visibly lifted by scoring such a high quality try, that went through 3 phases and countless pairs of hands. Right on the stroke of half time, Oldfield were awarded a penalty that was duly converted, to leave the scores tied 8-8 at Half Time.

Skipper Jase, struggling with an ingrown toe nail managed to stay on the park, which is more than could be said for Rocky Burns. In fairness Rocky did manage to last a half, dispelling talk from earlier in the week when he said ‘it’s properly f**ked, it could even go when the referee blows his whistle!!!’ The Oldfield back row of HoneyBum, Fielding and Chapman had been outstanding throughout and Chris Murphy’s introduction for Rocky at half-time, was with hindsight, a match changing substitution.

A couple of minutes into the second half a long range penalty from Bunton gave Oldfield a narrow 11-8 lead. The lead was pushed out to 18-8 when Shadow crossed the line for a well deserved try and conversion.  Yatton reacted strongly, but a totally committed defence restricted them to just one penalty. For the mathemticians amongst you, we think they scored 11, not 10 points, but that's not really the refs fault, as he had been taught maths by Sumo.

In the last minute of the game, Oldfield played themselves out of defence and from a scrum, a sweeping miss move move put the grinning 'nanny shagger,' Jack Burns into space. He linked up with HoneyBum who in turn fed wide to flying full back Ollie Mcafferty. The Yatton defence was broken as Ollie timed his pass well and put winger Andy Taylor in for an unopposed score. The touchline conversion was the final kick of a hard fought game, which Oldfield thoroughly deserved to win 25 points to 10.

Walcot next week chaps and part 2 of Jase’s now infamous 3 point plan.

Tries: Chapman, Collins & Taylor
Conversions: Bunton (2)
Penalties: Bunton (2)