Head's Newsletter 9 December 2016

Outstanding, frustrating, amazing, giving up, ecstatic. These are some of the thoughts and feelings I have had in the last month of coaching Tiffin School 1XV. Having had, what is fair to say a fairly disappointing start to the season, coming second in too many winnable games was becoming tedious! After losing to Wimbledon College for the second time in only a couple of weeks, both times by less than a score; this time they dumped us out of the cup, the players and I were starting to question what we were doing. Then came Trinity.

An outstanding display of aggressive defence and creative attack resulted in an unexpected win that would last an age in the memory. The feelings of disappointment and despair after the Wimbledon College game seemed to have completely disappeared. We’d cracked it, or so we thought. The following Saturday, away to Langley Park we came back down to earth with a huge bang. A lesson in physicality and preparation saw the 1XV go down by 35 points to 13. The feelings of disappointment and despair returned! The Caterham game was a long week away