Major contributions to proceedings by Ian Glover's back, Skipper Greaves' ankle, Simon Jelley's unmentionables, and Wilco's ribs (all excuses for a rest, except the heroic Wilco battling on) were overshadowed by some actual hockey. The M6s blend of youthful energy, skill, tenacity, and team play, with some old people watching on and occasionally joining in, saw us to a solid victory.

The goals, both early in the second half, came firstly from a calm long range Seb Warburton shot straight from a penalty corner, which somehow baffled the away keeper who watched it whizz past him. The second was a result of a speculative Dexter Smith effort being pounced on by sniffer Greaves channelling his inner Barton to sneak it home from a couple of yards.

It could have been rather more than two but for a number of near misses, airshots, miscues and general chaos in the D. The perpetrators know who they are, and are happy to have it on record that they were in the right position to get the ball.

Overall the youngsters showed how hockey should be done with Dexter and Luke D'Arcy bossing the midfield, MoM Noah Brown everywhere causing mayhem, Seb turning defence into attack throughout, and Cameron Green impassable.    

The oldsters got in onto the act with some neat passes, crosses, sweeping up at the back and general encouragement, except for Stu Creed who remains forever 15 yrs old in his energy, skill, tenacity etc etc. Keeper Ben Lye narrowly avoided LoM status by doing slightly more than Rob Barton in the game.