Diss just fall short against Newmarket

With both teams playing their first ever match on a full-sized pitch with full 15-a-side teams for the first time also, it understandably took some time for them both to settle into the game. Played on a warm autumnal morning, there were additional stops in the game to give young legs a bit of recovery time and for players to rehydrate.

Both teams played some nice rugby although never really got into their strides, with too many players seeing wide open spaces to run into and forgetting the team dynamics required in such a sport.

However, it was an eagerly contested encounter and the players did manage to settle into periods of continuity during the final 20 mins that boded well for the season ahead. Diss and Newmarket scored a brace of tries each, with the victory going to the visitors courtesy of a single conversion. The Diss tries were scored by ANOther and Aaron Frith, with fly-half Frith narrowly missing both conversion attempts from wide out. Diss man of the match was Sam Willett, playing his first game at Flanker and showing pace and skill and no little appetite for tackling the opposing ball carriers.

It was a match played in great spirit and all the players enjoyed their first experience of 'proper' rugby.