Day 34 - An Exciting Final Day

Where to begin?  With the Rugby or the Nations' Cup?

Ok, we'll start with the important stuff... The sun shone.. a bit... the wind blew...a bit.. and it was cold.. a lot! Despite that, there was a very exciting finish to the Nations Cup at Burhill.   As it turned out, all the drama around who would finish in second, third and fourth places was academic as England managed a resounding victory over Europe by 5 1/2 to 1 1/2 which made the results of all the other games interesting but not relevant.  The final table had England in first place, Rest of the World in second (hurrah!), Wales in third and after that it was all rather a blur...

The less abstemious of the brethren hung on at Burhill for the final game of the real Six Nations: and what a cracker it was!  The Irish had set the bar very high with a convincing 40-10 win over the Scots in Murrayfield. This meant that to win the Championship, England needed to beat France by a clear 26 points,

A very early try had the Twickenham hearts racing, but it was not to be. An England win remained a real possibility right until the end of what was a pulsating and high scoring game.  Yes, England delivered a victory but the margin of 20 points was just six shy of that which was needed.  Great fun, with 90 points scored in the game (when was the last time you saw that at Twickenham?) , but for the Anglos amongst us just not quite enough...

All of which means that Scotland picked up the wooden spoon and England won the Nations Cup... with some other, alternative, results in the rugby, but who cares anyway? There is a World Cup to come....

P.S. After the Nations Cup lunch, we had a small pitching competition onto the 18th New green - here is your Captain getting very excited about almost holing his effort...