If anything could go wrong on Sunday's journey to Hawick, then it did!!  A no show from hooker Donald Pyper allowed Prop Mark Brown to shift along one in the scrum and this gave a 1st XV debut to Spaniard Javier.

On the bus, there were a number of casualties, namely Mad Mike & Assistant Coach Neil Matthews both having a right good old chunder on the bus!  This prompted a 1.10 bus stop 10 miles outside Hawick!!

Worse was to follow as Adam, complete with his new haircut, crudely administered by Chris O'Neill's mother, forgot to pack his boots!!  Finally, the sight of Brown prancing around the changing rooms with no shorts on was a vision that my scare children but it couldn't be helped due to the lack of shorts in the kit bag.  If you have any pairs of Club shorts in the house, bring them back!!

 
Stan jumps higher than the rest in the landmine survivors benefit fixture!

On with the game and from the start Hawick Linden took the game to the makeshift Broughton side and at the first ruck, Duncan 'Gromit' Nicolson was sent flying on his bum.  The signs were not great.

Mad Mike thought it was time to practice his silly aeroplane run!!

Man of the match Paul Hamer (pictured), he's getting a bit of a collection going on here, drew first blood with a penalty after the Borders based referee deemed the home side to have infringed at the ruck.  Hamer's boot converted a further 3 penalties during the course of the game which proved important as the game went on.

What happened next?

Broughton earned a bonus point for their hard work and it was 4 tries from Arrandale, Maddison, Payne & Hart, the pick of which was Maddison's which saw the ball spread across the entire width of the pitch and going through several pairs of hands for the pacey winger to dive in the corner.

Final Score - Hawick Linden 20 - 32 Broughton

This result puts Broughton second top of the league and next week we travel away to Portobello for another must win fixture.