OCRFC in Spain

Needless to say we had fun in Valencia. Captained splendidly by Steero we played a 3-way tournament with two Spanish sides; spanked the first one, Tamati RC, but rather shot our bolt a tad early and faded against the better second one, the hosts and the oldest club in Spain, Tavernes RC. Still we won on aggregate over the two games! Other than that well, ‘what goes on tour ...’. We saw rather more of the Spanish health service than we would have liked, but fortunately to no lasting effect. ‘Morrisey’ (Ollie Smith) was King of Tour for translation services and all-round good touring.

I don’t think that the Hotel Melia Plaza are going to host another rugby tour though, not for any outrageous behaviour of course on our behalf, more for cultural differences; as an example they were rather fazed by Bradders and ‘Tragedy’ (Ben Gillen) appearing dressed as Smurfs for the day on Saturday; the manager said that it was “not normal” (Rolesy begged to differ). Ben would like to retain his tour name please for general usage.

Thanks as ever to Simon Laws for his efforts, which included a return to the pitch only a year after his quadruple heart bypass; a typical prop he dropped a scoring pass over the line!