On a miserable February day, Wetherby welcomed unbeaten Moortown to Eden Park. Oh no wait... Grange park! My mistake. Wetherby had been hit by injury, illness and Italian getaways and fielded far from a full-strength side, against a side with mainly familiar faces from the return fixture earlier in the season.

After an early penalty gave Moortown the lead, they set about pressing the Wetherby defence hard with some slick back moves, and organised forward carrying. The Wetherby defence started up to the task as they forced mistake after mistake from the visitors. The returning Tom Bottomley resumed his supervision of the rucks, and the home side looked secure.

With the absence of three hookers, Wetherby struggled to maintain the visitors at scrum time and a scrum penalty gave Moortown the kick for the corner. Their maul formed well despite the attentions of James Gibson, and they powered over for the first try of the game. 0-10.

Wetherby were ruthless in defence despite fierce opposition. Tom Edwards, not satisfied with chopping trees down for a living, chopped down Moortown attackers with gusto. Ably assisted by Kamikaze George Gilbert spearing into tackles and Harry Johnson showing his bony shoulders off to the harem of women who came to watch.

The Moortown team had added organisation to the obvious talent that was on display in the return fixture and were really stretching Wetherby when they attacked. After working tirelessly in defence Wetherby were made to pay as a gap in the defence opened up and allowed their impressive centre to stretch out their lead. 0-17.

Wetherby worked hard to stay in the game but chances were limited. Elliott Griffiths made some powerful charges and spurred on his team mates. Dan Simpson was so buoyed by Kinsey's efforts that he steamed into the Moortown centre only to be hit in the biggest shot Grange Park has seen in many a year. His funeral details will follow shortly.

Half-time: Wetherby 0-17 Moortown

Despite a tough first half, Wetherby came out of the blocks quickly in the second half. Bradley Mason carried the ball well, mincing in with deceiving venom. The aggression in defence paid off as well; turnover ball provided space for Myles Oates and all the money in North Leeds couldn't buy someone who could get in between myleypoo and his double cuddles. 7-17.

At the first sign of trouble, Moortown sent on a troubled beast of their own. Throwing on their volatile Yorkshire Carnegie reject instantly showed the Jekyll and Hyde in him. After giving a cheap penalty away for throwing the ball at someone's head, something you see every day in kiwi school boys rugby, he replied by bursting through the tiring Wetherby defence to stretch the Moortown lead. 7-22.

With Matt Bartle grappling with Mickey Maguire from shameless at one side of the pitch, there was action all over the place. Unfortunately for Wetherby, all of the other 14 defenders bit a huge dummy from the Moortown fly-half, who looked like Vince from recess. He ghosted under the posts but couldn't convert his own try. 7-29.

The next time Vince entered the Wetherby 22, our own flare player Harry Kaye read him like a book and intercepted his drop off. After stretching into the opposition half, he found himself being chased down by the angry kid from the incredibles. Harry off-loaded to Alex Dus, who had Billy Cale in acres of space to run in the try. Unfortunately Alex chose the wrong option, and opted to throw the ball miles away from anyone, which funnily didn't result in a try.

Moortown capitalised on this Wetherby error and after Barney Roberts got bumped off down the left, Moortown closed out the game down the right hand side. A neat chip and chase from the winger put gloss on the score line that didn't reflect the sheer amount of effort and heart shown by the Wetherby boys.

Full-time: Wetherby 7-34 Moortown

Just as the first fixture, a fine demonstration of Moortown's chequebook, and a hearty, gritty performance from the product of Wetherby's youth system. Cheering as though they'd won the World Cup, shows how much Moortown valued their hard-fought victory. Clearly the famous all black humility was lost in these lads. Stay humble bru.

MoM: Tom Edwards - Monumental effort from the tinder demon!

DoD: Dan Simpson - a much loved husband, father and friend. May he rest in peace.