On Monday after a more relaxing day at Imire Game Park we took the bus 120km north of Harare to Lomagundi College for our second game against County Districts, basically Lomagundi College.
The school is set in beautiful countryside and as with all schools over here the focus of the school is the impressive 1st XV pitch. The crowd wasn't quite as big this time, being out in the sticks in the middle of nowhere, but was none the less for most the second biggest crowd the boys had ever played in front of. We still managed to give 3 interviews to the press, including to the Harare Herald who had followed us up from Harare.
The boys kicked off and things seemed to be going well, we kept the ball alive superbly and played some wonderful running rugby quickly going 17-0 up. However we then hit our middle of the game malaise, just the same as with the first game in Harare! We stopped playing the rugby that had gained us 17 points with relative ease and decided to make things tough for ourself by giving away penalties, not playing our patterns etc. etc. This allowed Districts back into the game. The same happened for the next 20 minutes of the second half before we managed to get things together again and get back on track. We started playing some better rugby and finished of the game 38-17 up. Our first victory on tour which is great after losing by a point the other day, but with the Zimbabwe game coming up it was a game where we should have scored another 30 points.
Peter Wild scored another couple of tries to remain the tour scoring leader with a total of four to date. Alex Wilcockson was incestuously given man of the match by the newest member of the tour management.
The school is set in beautiful countryside and as with all schools over here the focus of the school is the impressive 1st XV pitch. The crowd wasn't quite as big this time, being out in the sticks in the middle of nowhere, but was none the less for most the second biggest crowd the boys had ever played in front of. We still managed to give 3 interviews to the press, including to the Harare Herald who had followed us up from Harare.
The boys kicked off and things seemed to be going well, we kept the ball alive superbly and played some wonderful running rugby quickly going 17-0 up. However we then hit our middle of the game malaise, just the same as with the first game in Harare! We stopped playing the rugby that had gained us 17 points with relative ease and decided to make things tough for ourself by giving away penalties, not playing our patterns etc. etc. This allowed Districts back into the game. The same happened for the next 20 minutes of the second half before we managed to get things together again and get back on track. We started playing some better rugby and finished of the game 38-17 up. Our first victory on tour which is great after losing by a point the other day, but with the Zimbabwe game coming up it was a game where we should have scored another 30 points.
Peter Wild scored another couple of tries to remain the tour scoring leader with a total of four to date. Alex Wilcockson was incestuously given man of the match by the newest member of the tour management.
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