The Great Escape Continues… (From Worcester News)

The Great Escape Continues…

5:28pm Sunday 8th April 2007

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What a Birthday !!!…. Tickets to the Bristol match and seats on the supporters coach courtesy of my lovely daughter as my present.. And then treated to a really enthralling game of rugby.

Matches don’t come much closer than that, the Warriors kept playing right up to the whistle in both halves and if they had managed to repeat the effort at the end of the first half the match would have been won, but it wasn’t to be and a red card incident replaced it instead. Of all the players on the pitch for the Warriors Craig Gillies is on of the last ones I would have thought to get a red card.

So that left an anxious wait until the match between the Newcastle Falcons and Northampton Saints on Sunday. With a slender 2 point cushion between The Warriors and The Saints the result of the match could have sent the Warriors back to the bottom of the league. Much to the relief of the Warrior fans Falcons won 16 – 7, which meant that Saints couldn’t match the losing bonus point the Warriors had earned the day before.

2 matches left and still on the edge of our seats in both camps. Scary stuff. Who ever thinks that relegation and promotion should be abandoned should take a look at the attendance figures for the games involving the bottom teams, near on capacity and worth every penny in my book.

The other thing that made the day so good was the banter with the Bristol supporters before during and after the game. It’s what I love most about rugby, Jen and I go to games and stand/sit amongst passion support for both teams and there is never any acrimony or upset. Just good natured banter and the usual ref baiting. The Warriors support behind the team bench on Saturday was as noisy as we could possibly make it. Hope the guys appreciated it, we enjoyed singing our heads off. Thanks to the South Stand Choir for allowing us to join them for the day it was great fun!!!