Head's Newsletter 5 February 2016

S ince the last rugby update the 1XV have played High Wycombe, John Fisher and Hamp- ton School. In High Wycombe they came up against probably the best side they had

Shown below (from left to right) are George Price, Max Tal- man, Ben Chan- dler and Shane Jayakrishna who have all received their gold ties. With 1 game to go Ben has

played all season. Due to the wet weather the game was moved onto the 3G pitch at Maidenhead RFC and the home side really enjoyed the flat and fast track. Tiffin were 21 – 0 down before even getting their hands on the ball! However the resilience that has been ever present this season kicked in and the boys started to play. The final score of 44 – 12 was probably about right. Against John Fisher it was the opposite and we started well and at half time a 10 – 10 score line and Tiffin on the ascendancy looked promising. However two early scores in the second half by Fisher made a difficult job even harder. Again defeat by 31 – 22 was a bitter pill to swallow. Last week was the last time that the U6 players would play at Grist's and it was against local rivals Hampton. The boys were determined to finish strongly, and even though Hampton were slightly under strength due to their run in the NatWest Cup, to win 22 – 0 was a very pleasing way to finish the home season. The game was in some doubt due to the wet pitches however the (muddy) photo shows the delight of a number of the boys who played. We are nearly at the end of what has been a very successful season that has seen a num- ber of both red and gold ties being awarded for both 10 and 25 1XV wins respectively.

scored 18 tries, 31 conversions and 12 pen- alties, amassing a staggering 188 points. He has been an extremely dangerous player with the ball in hand, and on his day his ac- curacy with the boot has been the downfall of a number of teams. Max is now on 28 1XV wins, and for 18 of these wins he was leading from the front as Captain. He is an extremely powerful individ- ual who can be enormously destructive in midfield. Throughout the season he has led by example both on and off the field. With one game still to play this Saturday there are still a number of boys on the cusp of both red and gold ties, so even with the end of the season so close the pressure to perform is still on.