The LongestDay?

It certainly was the longest day for the Tigers with mixed results across the board.
All squads were at Peterlee Pumas on Saturday in what turned out to be atrocious conditions.
Due to a shortage of numbers on both sides the under 11's mixed and matched and played a good friendly game.
The under 13's had an excellent game but eventually lost out by only ten points to the more experienced Pumas. These losing margins are getting smaller all of the time and coach Rob Aspden was highly pleased with the lads for their performance.
Apparently the under 15's left their game heads in Yorkshire last week and played a terrible game, eventually losing out for the first time in a long time to a Pumas' squad that dominated the game. Final score 24 - 10.

In a strange reversal of fortune the senior squad arrived at Peterlee with five "experienced" players and four new signings, (non of which had played League before) and so the difficult but inevitable decision was made to call a halt to this years abysmal season and withdraw from the Conference before more humiliation. Peterlee were obviously disappointed, as were all concerned and offered to loan the Tigers three players and play the game as a friendly.
So fielding 12 players to the Puma's 13 the Tigers began to play their best rugby of the season and on 5 minutes following a great drive and some excellent work from the backs easily charged over for the games first score. The Pumas retaliated on the 10th minute benefiting from a mistake as the Tigers spilled the ball. The Tigers fought back and in a game that flowed from one end of the park to the other scored again only for Peterlee to come back just before the break to level the scores at 12 -12.
Peterlee began the second half by running in two tries in the first 10 minutes to extend the gap to 22 - 10. Not to be outdone the Tigers dug in and doggedly resisted try line pressure on numerous occasions and struck back twice to re level the scores. The second try was from defending the try line from another Puma attack which ended in the ball being knocked on and collected by one of the Tigers new boys who ran the full length of the field.
Final score 22 - 22.
The Tigers are grateful to the "on loan" players from Peterlee for an excellent game, giving no quarter and expecting non in return.
The Tigers players were overjoyed at the result and have requested that we play out our remaing local fixtures as friendlies and began to build for next season instead.