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Newbold in Leeds 2006

Well what can be said, for those of you who missed out on the tour, you missed a great weekend. I and a few others I have spoken to are only just getting over the weekend itself.

There were a number of comical events that happened along the way and I have to say that the tour junky Paul Love was involved a lot of the time. I believe the highlight of the journey to Leeds was the fact that Ben Marsella, dressed as King Kong, drove the mini bus in his outfit holding a can of cider and hanging out the window, can you imagine seeing King Kong driving a minibus with the likes of cat women, Superman, Clint Eastwood, robin and others all aboard fighting.

The first night went as you can probably imagine every one getting completely smashed out of their brains, none more so than little Mark Todd on Friday night, it was to be the end for the little chimp. Saturday saw the arrival of myself, Joss the pup Andrews and vodka Tim Valentine just in time for the tour t- shirts to be handed out. We all headed for the mini busses in the car park to find King Kong hanging from a tree still wrecked from the night before, we made our way to West Park Bramhope RFC just down the road. On arrival Lovey managed to drink 3 pints of larger before we even got changed to play. The less said about the rugby the better as we were useless and lost......

After the game we started the drinking stakes by challenging the opposition to a boat race, the old boys went first with Lovey, Dave Henry, Ken Perks, Pecker and King Kong Marsella, who may I add was the last man and waited for his opposite number to start before drinking his pint of Guinness quicker than Ii have ever seen, to give Newbold a 1-0 lead. Enter the young un's lead by Gibbo, Phil (lazy boy) Tipping, Daz Dean, myself and Jossa, lets just say we were facing a combined team weight of over 100 stone, we thought they would crush us, but we proved to those northern monkeys Newbold lads can actually drink, 2-0 to the bold.

Paul Love accepted my challenge of a strawpeedow contest to let me and Jossa have the double bed and him to have the single bed in our room, only thing was if I lost, he got the double bed and he also got Jossa ha ha. I lost miserably, sorry Jossa.

Following this the court proceedings were to start. High lights of the court were Lovey getting absolutely stuck for everything; he forgot his number ones he forgot to bring a super hero out fit he drank so much that eventually resulted in him being sick in a bucket only to drink more. Tim Valentine got stung for falling asleep outside. Gibbo and his old boy who dressed as Sherlock Holmes also took some punishment and of-course the court wouldn’t be complete without King Kong taking some drink in court!. Oh and whilst all this was going on little mo fo Mark Todd was still struggling like a wounded kitten....

After a few sing song we went back to the hotel to get the evening fun underway which was messy and yes Carl Chaplow won the game of cricket 204 not-out, his fellow front rower Darren Dean getting a big duck in the second pub!.

As you can imagine every one got split up, but Leeds is an awesome place with some great sights at night. When we all finally made our way back to the hotel, after taxi's being left without payment and all kinds of goings on we landed in Glen Todd's room, yes the older brother of the two, seen as little Mark Todd stayed in Saturday night still suffering.

Sunday saw everyone suffering and the journey home was not nice, but we managed to finish the tour off in style with a night out in our beloved Rugby town in costumes!

A great tour all in all. Once again big thank you to TOM HARRISON....

Screech 04/05/06