Travels with Dinno - Dinnington

On a glorious warm summer morning with the sun breaking through the clouds we set off for our first home match of the season. Most of the team's matches are away this year so it is nice to have a home game.  As I write this I am sitting on a bench looking across the first team pitch. I have just eaten a very tasty bacon sandwich and am sipping at my hot chocolate.  There are clouds of water vapour rising from cooling towers in the distance and there are farmers at work in the fields surrounding the club.

The more observant amongst you will notice that the accompanying picture is not of today's glorious scene. The reason for this is that my camera broke yesterday and I can't get the photos from my phone because I do not have the right type of memory card and so I am improvising. Hopefully you get the picture anyway.  So back to the glorious day that has enfolded before my eyes.

Today's visitors are Selby. They have a strong reputation. The last time we, Tom and I, came across them was in the Under 7s where they beat us in the final of our own tournament at Huddersfield.  Nobody was under any illusions that this would be a tough test ahead of our Yorkshire Cup match against Hull Ionians next week.

The match started and Dinno got the bounce of the ball and it came back to them from the kick off. They attacked but were taken into touch. Selby were penalised for not throwing a straight lineout and we took a scrum. Our scrum half, Kai, is something of a magician. He moved the ball out from the base of the scrum and the forwards advanced. The ball was popped up to Kai who dived over for a try. Then came the conversion. Ben struck the ball confidently and everything seemed to be going well until the ball hit the right hand upright. 5-0 Dinno.

Unfortunately the team went to sleep and Selby went straight up the other end and under the posts. Dinno 5 - Selby 7.  That was how the score stayed. Both teams were well matched and the general assessment from both sets of supporters  was that it was an excellent game of rugby and will help both teams for the struggles ahead. The boy came on as a second half sub and had an OK game.

The only downside was the attack of the flying spiders.  Dinnington is a nice little rugby club and we have been made to feel welcome from day one. So if you are ever down here call in and say hello.

Next week Travels with Dinno goes to Hull and back.