Hi, all - excuse me for pushing you all to the blog - it's just a bit easier to put comments and so forth on here rather than on the photo site.

Firstly, the photos from the Havant match are here:

http://www.testvalleyphotos.co.uk/WRFC/HavantMarch29

I have to give credit to the Havant lads: having had a really tough match in the first half during which (I think) they gained in confidence during the game they then had to watch an entirely fresh team come on to take them on in the second - very impressive that they kept their spirits up.

Still, I think we put some good moves together - and in fact I think this is the first game I can remember when both wingers scored - from some very nice team moves in both cases, as I recall. Not to mention Ollie's headlong dive and Callum's "runaway train" try up the middle.

Hmm. Caption photos - here are my two suggestions:

"Let us never speak of this again!"

(could be attributed to any of those in the picture)

And

"CHEEEEEAAAAAAARGE!!!"

And speaking of photos - not very many people have requested copies of the two team photos from earlier in the season, so I have not ordered any at all yet. In fact, to tempt you, we made another one just before the Havant game, of the whole squad this time. This time, rather than putting 6 photos online and getting you to pick your favourite I chose which was the "best" face to insert on the final composite print.

Here's the final result, which you can also find at http://www.testvalleyphotos.co.uk/WRFC/HavantSquadPhoto/HavantGroupComp.jpg

Let me know if you want a copy of _this_ one. I will try to remember to bring a copy along on Sunday.

That's all for now.

Cheers!

Martin.

Portsmouth U13 Plate Quarter Final

Perhaps not an auspicious one to start the new blog, but what the heck Nothing quite like thriving on adversity, is there?

Photos are at www.testvalleyphotos.co.uk/WRFC/PortsmouthFeb8

Rather challenging photographic conditions (just to take your mind off the result): the combination of white and black shirts with bright sunlight and shade was a bit challenging for the metering as well as autofocus. Apologies for the quality of some of them.

Anyway, here we go: I thought I would give this blog idea a try since:

(i) my wife is doing a blog (actually 2 of them) - so there's a certain measure of competition;

(ii) it opens up the possibility of more interaction - for example someone could write up match reports or ...

(iii) I have often thought that there ought to be opportunity for a caption competition, so with that in mind let me nominate a couple of starting photos for this game's caption competition. Assuming I can figure out how to add photos to this posting ... here goes ...

The idea by the way is that everyone gets to suggest captions. The winner gets to ... umm ... suggest some more. And so does everybody else.

Caption 1: New Winchester pre-match ritual - are things going a bit too far?

Caption 2: "The hair! Mind the hair!