Maidenhead Thirds Try Fest at Slough
Slough 2nds 3pts vs Maidenhead 3rds 62pts

The game started with a bitterly cold wind blowing from the East. Rugby is not easy in these conditions, or at least it shouldn't be. How come then Maidenhead ran out winners by 62 points to 3? The answer is that Slough didn't seem to want to tackle anybody moving at more than a brisk walking pace and eventually after 10 minutes it dawned on Maidenhead that simply passing the ball down the backline and running at the Slough backs was going to produce tries. Plus a couple of push-over tries from 5 metres at set scrums. If only every week it was this easy, but then Maidenhead are top of the league

There probably isn't room on the club website to describe all the tries so let's just say

• excellent jumping at number 2 in the line-out by Michael Anthony and by Johnny Wanklyn in the middle gave Maidenhead an excellent supply of ball
• good work by the front five in getting two push-over tries in the first 20 minutes
• long and safe touch kicking out-of-hand by John Sudbury
• lots of quick turn-over ball secured by the back row
• a couple or well run-in tries by Lester Martin (or was it three) after quick passing from the rest of the backs
• a try of great rarity and beauty from Dan Robinson as the rest of the team looked on in shock never having suspected that he could trot that fast
• Rob Wilkins converting 6 of the 10 tries for a success rate of 60% (which is the same as Johnny Wilkinson got in the World Cup and lots of yardage gained by taking quick penalties

The only thing that Slough bettered Maidenhead in was yellow cards, getting two to Maidenheads one. And one of those two was at the suggestion of the Slough captain. Now you don't see that very often at Old Trafford

All-in-all a good days work but away to Oxford Quins in a couple of week's time will be a different proposition

Reporter: David (the senior pencil) Anthony.
Thanks to our sponsors: The Penn Motor Company Ltd.   

Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1 South 

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Maidenhead III	12	10	1	1	318	64	21
Wallingford II	12	9	1	2	348	108	19
Harwell	12	8	0	4	333	147	16
Thatcham	11	8	0	3	215	126	16
Oxford Harlequins III	12	7	1	4	234	234	15
Grove II	12	6	0	6	272	270	12
Aldermaston	12	6	0	6	159	216	12
Tadley II	12	4	1	7	142	211	9
Shire Hall	11	2	0	9	117	247	0
Slough II	12	2	0	10	135	411	0
Didcot	12	1	0	11	144	383	-2

Maidenhead U17s Pipped at the Post

Final standings for the U17s OBB league saw Aylesbury pip the U17s by a bonus point

However, the U17s still go into the same play off section with the first of their two play off games against Windsor, at Braywick this Sunday.  The reward, a place in the National U17 Plate competition

BBO Under 17s League Division 2
Final Standings

Team	Pld.	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points For	Points Against	Points Diff.	Bonus Points	Match Points
Aylesbury	7	6	0	1	220	46	174	5	29
Maidenhead	7	6	0	1	164	38	126	4	28
Redingensians	7	5	0	2	207	82	125	5	25
Bracknell	7	5	0	2	182	92	90	3	23
Abingdon	7	2	1	4	53	109	-56	0	10
Chinnor	6	1	0	5	65	154	-89	0	4
Oxford	6	0	0	6	31	214	-183	2	2
High Wycombe	5	0	1	4	13	212	-199	0	2

New Years Moan!!

Some people are continuing to abuse the parking at Braywick, with numbers of vehicles still parked on the double yellow lines and also in the WAMDSAD private car park.

Please could you all remind your squads (and parents) of the rules – there is plenty of parking available at Braywick without either upsetting other users or, much more importantly, impeding the access of an ambulance in the event of a serious injury to one of the players

Some of you may have seen John Ford, Training Officer of the Berkshire Society of RFU Referees, at the Club last Sunday. John was trying to encourage people to take up refereeing and promoting the courses available:-

3hr Mini/Midi introduction to refereeing
2-day Entry Level Referee Award designed for those wanting to referee at 15-a-side.

Please liaise with Dave Perry (david.perry@ndirect.co.uk) or Billy Maclean (Williammaclean5@aol.com) if you are interested in taking advantage of either of these. If we have enough numbers we could organise something on a club basis

Forthcoming fixtures 
Saturday 12 Jan Dec
1st XV vs St Ives (H) BBO SW1 
Vets vs Phoenix Thatcham (H)