After a soul-crushing loss like we suffered last week, a team can either sulk and bicker or they can come out fighting. As this is Cambridge South (not City) we obviously took the latter option. Those poor Rutland kids - it wasn't their fault Wisbech had angered the South Beast. They honestly didn't know how to cope with the incisive passing that tore through their defence time and again.

Arriving in freezing drizzle, it took a lot of effort to drag ourselves out of the changing rooms and onto the pitch. Ultimately it was George who took charge of clearing the changing room with some ill-advised and worryingly enthusiastic chat about 'long ribbed shafts'. Once on the pitch, the Ring of Chaos settled everyone down. Even the announcement from the opposition coach that they always played with smooth balls drew no comment from George.

South started brightly and made sure most of the hockey was played in the Rutland half. Within 5 minutes, a Rutland 16 was turned over and fed back to Graham to put him through one-on-one with the keeper. Now, its not like the captain to blow his own trumpet (much) but if they wrote textbooks on scoring goals (and Finn is probably considering this as you read...) you'd probably read about this goal in one of those books. A change of direction to the right as the keeper rushed out, and then a crisp shot to the far corner from the edge of the D beating the keeper's despairing dive.

It was soon apparent that more goals would come and everyone was eager to get on the score-sheet. None more so than Tom, who wasted no time in rifling home a superb volley to deflect a short corner into the net. Those who point out that this was our own net and a Rutland short corner are, as Jon would say, just too negative.

Right then. As a full recap of each goal would a) bore you to death and b) threaten the mighty Brynjolffssen's reputation as Match Report King, I'll summarise in bullet point here:

· 2-1 Rich (sublime reverse stick deflection into the top corner)

· 3-1 Jon (capping some great flowing play with a pile-driver from the top of the D)

· 4-1 Rich (something else awesome)

· 5-1 Mark (calmly (is he ever anything else?) slotting home a cross that beat everyone else)

· 6-1 Finn (standard)

· 7-1 Jon (a Barton-esque reverse stick on the turn)

· 8-1 Graham (trademark 'McCulloch' short-corner routine. They've done studies you know. 60% of the time, it works every time)

South admittedly took their foot off the gas a bit in the 2nd half. In fact Dave took his feet off the pitch entirely for large periods of time, preferring to play on his knees. A worrying trend it would seem...

Not many of us noticed really as we were far too busy counting the number of times Finn's opposite man (sorry - child) beat him with the same trick, each one greeted by a more and more exasperated 'lecture to self' from the BK. The highlight for all was when he finally picked one and cheered himself - only to discover it was a different kid entirely.

With such a sound thrashing of the 4th placed team in the league - at their place no less, the 1sts now have to make sure we play to our potential and win every game between now and Christmas.