Saturday Rugby. Once again we had proper Saturday afternoon rugby at the Recreation Ground this afternoon and very good it was too. Saturday afternoon is the traditional time for rugby matches but now that everything is the slave of the television rights holders we dance to their tune; so we now have Friday evening matches,…
Slammin’ Sam. At last, after about nine months waiting, we finally got to see ‘Slammin’ Sam Burgess run out for Bath Rugby. This is BIG news, at least in Bath. Sam Burgess is the latest in a line of players to switch code from Rugby League to Rugby Union. It was a great coup when…
Riverside. Another beautiful day in Bath today, not at all like a mid-October autumn day. Warm, windy and sunny so a good day to be out and about. This is the River Avon riverside in Bath taken from North Parade; behind the trees on the right is the Recreation Ground or The Rec as we…
Purple Flag. Tonight I went to a Bath Rugby home match at the ‘Rec’ for the first time this season. For those of you who may be interested we beat league leaders Saracens 21:11 which is a fantastic result that puts us to the top of the league for now. Anyway, before the game I…
Rugby The rugby season is about to start and this afternoon we had the first of the pre-season ‘friendlies’. This means that neither side has anything to lose apart from prestige and that the usual rules on substitutes are waived; so it seems that players are swapping every five minutes. Here we see the scrum,…
This afternoon I went to The Rec where Bath Rugby were playing Brive in the Amlin Cup quarter final. Here are Bath in their pre-match huddle. It was a great game, in daylight and with almost no rain. Bath won 39-7 and Gavin Henson was Man-of-the-Match. Excellent afternoon. 6 April 2014
Some days it is proving to be a real struggle taking a photograph for this project. The weather really isn’t helping and the time of year is making everything very dull indeed. Today however I actually took twenty one photos; some showing the rain and threatening clouds and some this evening as I was in…
The Sixwheeler Chronicles 