On a cool, calm West Yorkshire afternoon, Wetherby welcomed mid-table rivals Old Leodiensians to Grange park with both teams looking for a boost to their season. Wetherby welcomed back the rampant Tom Edwards onto the bench, while Ed Blackwell returned to the centres.

After a well observed two minutes silence of remembrance, the game began at a frantic pace. Wetherby ran hard at the defence early doors and forced a penalty. Alex Dus horribly mis-kicked, but ended up being fortunate as it gave Wetherby a five metre line-out. A well-formed maul allowed Mattie Chappel to do his signature flop, only this time ball in hand over the try line. 7-0.

Wetherby continued the early pace to the game and were lead by livewire Jonny Day. The ultimate pocket picker was a constant threat in both attack and defence, and started a good move on the left hand side involving little Nicky impressionist Andrew Trotman laying the ball off to the lumpy headed Myles Oates to force the all over the line. 14-0.

Leo's were still a threat in attack with their fleet footed fifteen making ground, but wave after wave of forward attacks met a determined Wetherby defence, once again spearheaded by the back row of George Gilbert, Harry Johnson and Jim Greenwood. Jim put aside the fact that he'd been hoodwinked by a two and a half year old toddler that morning, as he bribed his child with chocolate to unlock the door that he'd just locked himself out of!

Despite a strong and organised defensive effort, Leo's continued to press and got within five metres of the Wetherby line. After five minutes of punishing defence, the ball went loose and was collected by the Leo's left winger to run the ball in and score. 14-7.

With a Leo's resurgence on the cards, they looked to force their hand before half-time and looked to be getting the rub of the green, much to frustration of the Wetherby contingent. After a monumental week in world politics, our very own toupeed moron was vocal in his criticism of the referee. Much like Donald Trump, Jack Kaye was the victim of a misogynistic exposé video on Saturday night.

The teams exchanged penalties before Leo's put the squeeze on again before half-time. As they worked into the Wetherby half once more they bought another penalty to close the gap before half-time.

Half-time: Wetherby 17-13 Old Leodiensians

After conceding a penalty early in the second half to bring the scores within a point, Wetherby showed a lot of grit, ahead of the clubs curry night. King of the korma Elliott Griffiths, Duke of the Jalfrezi Stephen Hoather and Maid of the Mango Lassie Bradley Mason all battered the Leo's defences. The rugby wasn't spectacular but after a patient and punishing assault on the Leo's line, Mattie Chappel finally made it over the line to stretch the gap. 22-16.

With the reinforcements on the field, Wetherby asserted their physical dominance on the game. Myleypoo even hit back after weeks of being the team speed bump, with a big late tackle on his opposite number. The big defence created spaces and Trotman made good ground on the wing but was hopelessly incapable of finishing 1-on-1s. Mattie Chappel came close but decided he didn't want to buy a jug, so only went half-hearted for his hat-trick. Little does he know, it's always Mattie's round.

After marinating the Leo's defence for what seemed like hours, Wetherby finally added the sauce to the pan as they whipped the ball wide to Gareth Plant, who skipped over the line to give Wetherby the bonus point. Unfortunately, the curry came without rice as he struck his conversion like his foot was made of naan bread, with the ball travelling all of about five yards. 27-16.

The end of the game became scrappy, with Jack Radcliffe desperately trying to sell anyone buying a dummy. As he worked hard to get swallowed by as many forwards as possible, second rows Will Dutton and James Gibson followed him round to dig him out of trouble.

When Wetherby did go through their phases they made strong yards through the main strike runners Elliott, George and Liam. The big carries created the space for Ed Blackwell to put the icing on the cake. With ice in his veins, and jelly in his hips he worked his way over for Wetherby's fifth.

Final Score: Wetherby 34-16 Old Leodiensians.

MoM: Mattie Chappel - a good return to form, despite a horrible display of jug avoidance.

DoD: Harry Kaye - Spent his Saturday afternoon refereeing the second team with a new play on "Ref Cam" with his selfies.