The final day of the season saw a tasty looking battle between a Wetherby side and a Thorne side holding a 2-2 head-to-head record in recent years. A fine looking battle to host in front of a bumper crowd to celebrate Wetherby's 50th anniversary. A roasting hot day set a fine scene for a good day of rugby.

Wetherby shot out of the blocks at a hundred miles an hour. A fine move in the midfield including George Gilbert and Andrew Trotman was somehow played inside to Jonny Day, whose slippery hips evaded last ditch tackles for the opening score within two minutes. 7-0.

With the home side fielding an enormous pack, it wasn't long before their scrum pressure told on Thorne. Jonny Day turned provider this time as he picked up a loose ball from a turned over scrum and fed Jack Kaye on the left wing. If there's one thing Jack is good at it's evading things. Whether it be commitment, paying his subs, going to speech therapy, or opposition wingers - he evades them all. 12-0.

Thorne looked shell-shocked and seemed as inept at holding onto possession as Tom Edwards is with holding in the contents of his bowels. Another loose bit of Thorne play unfortunately fell into Jonny Day's hands again. The unfortunate part for Thorne was that Jonny was clearly fired up, as he bust through tackles he had no right to, and evened out his gifts to the Kaye family by feeding Harry Kaye. Harry languidly slipped past the last defender and finished off the try for Wetherby's third try in the first fifteen minutes. 19-0.

The Wetherby forwards were laying a huge foundation for the backs to play off, giving Thorne very little chance. Spearheaded by an omnipresent performance by James Gibson, who combined his rangey running game with an effective line-out partnership with Mattie Chappel. As is often the case however, a lot of the power running came through Elliott Griffiths. Despite his wonderful success at slimming world, and frequently being slimmer of the week, his freak power has not been suppressed. After coming close twice he powered over to secure the bonus point. 24-0.

Thorne did start to come into the game and used their powerful counter attacking from their full back to try and get them on the front foot. Some huge defence from Ed Blackwell in his farewell game for the club, made up for the paper tackles coming in from Alex Dus. His turnover ball set free Andrew Trotman, who had already been harshly adjudged in touch earlier in the game. With one defender to beat, his magic feet were far too good as he scored Wetherby's fifth. 31-0.

Wetherby were far from finished in the first half as they continued their open, running rugby. Tom Bottomley jinked his way past defenders from the restart and put Wetherby on the front foot again. As the ball went right, Alex Dus and Barney Roberts made some neat interplay to make yards before feeding the ball back left for Jack Kaye to close out the first half in style.

Half-time: Wetherby 38-0 Thornensians

Thorne started the second-half brightly and caused more problems in the first five minutes than they had mustered in the entire first half. Their number 8, who has doubled in size since the return fixture, was carrying well, and was able to offload well to the outside centre who found a gap in the Wetherby defences to finally chalk something on the other side of the scoreboard. 38-7.

Despite Scott Wallis putting huge pressure on at scrum-time, and George Gilbert being everywhere in defence, Thorne kept pushing and grabbed a second try in quick succession with some neat off-loads from after the tackle to pull back into the game. 38-12.

As Thorne tried to force their way back into the game they put pressure on the Wetherby line again, as they had somehow turned all of the momentum despite the big home crowd. Stephen Hoather thought he'd won a clean turnover on his own line, but only earned himself a yellow card. In his defence, he couldn't hear the referees instructions due to a combination of the irritating horn being blown by the Thorne support, and the alluring tune of the ice cream van.

With the game coming to a slow close and Wetherby tiring, the only thing people wanted to see less than a Jack Kaye hat-trick was him taking his shirt off again. Unfortunately he was provided well by his partner in crime, to leave the delinquent Kaye to support in the most cringe-worthy manner possible.

Final Score: Wetherby 45-12 Thornensians

MoM: Jonny Day - I've said it before, but if the guy was 6' 5" he'd be playing for England.

DoD: Fifty years of Wetherby rugby has never seen as big a tool as Jack Kaye.