The Pegasus Pump sponsored team hit the road for the first time in a few weeks away to Grove. With a number of enforced changes due to injuries, suspensions and being Welsh the team welcomed back Paul Denning on parole, Rudo Van Driver from his stint at BBQ school and Doug Hawker from his Scandinavian film making exploits.

The starting 15 took to the pitch after a lack lustre warm up and soon realised that they had a game on their hands when they went 5 nil down very quickly with a lack of tackling, commitment and speed being high lighted by the captain David Seal as the team stood behind the posts heads hung low.

Tadley then goaded themselves into action with a forward made try resulting in Rudo Van Driver scoring near the posts, Raymond added the kick and the game restarted, with Tadley continuing to play as bad as they had at Hungerford earlier in the season where they had made an average opposition look really good. Soon the poor Tadley defence leaked another converted try, which lead to Captain Seal ripping into the team again to try and find some heart with which to fight back.

From a pressure kick Tadley moved the ball wide fro right wing Paul Johnson to beat two defenders for a try, followed up by Raymond for the conversion points. After the restart Tadley found themselves defending again and Paul Denning dislocating his shoulder in a good cover tackle. This enforced change bought Doug into his favourite position of outside centre and with two weeks off going up and down in Sweden he was chomping at the bit. After a cracking break from Clippy the off loads resulted in Doug scoring under the posts making it 12-21 at the break.

With the team being told the performance was still not good enough the squad got down and did 150 press ups on their weaker arm before the 2nd half commenced. Grove to their credit came straight out of the traps and continued in their game mode of direct rugby, no kicking instead opting to bash up the middle with their two centres. A number of phases passed before the Tadley dominat scrum was able to win ball back again with Rudo Van Driver continually picking up from the number 8 spot and drawing in the close defence. Clippy continued in his strong ball carrying role from the rucks and set up anther score for Rudo who lurking in the 13 channel, which Raymond with his golden boots on converted. Grove restarted the game with their buy now familiar mid field game plan, this tactic paid off with a converted try to bring the scores to 19-28.

Invigorated by their score they took advantage of the official's interpretation of letting the game flow by retaining the ball through a number of phases and scored after a number of fumbles in the Tadley 22 by both sides. At 24-28 the away team was certainly starting to sweat. Tadley rang the changes bringing on Drew roberts for Luke Titley and Ali Churchill for the injured Mark Tucker. Pressure by Tadley then resulted in a penalty in the Grove half; with fly half Raymond screaming at captain Seal for the quick tap and go to exploit a two man overlap, Seal in a moment reminiscent of Homer Simpson decided to go for posts-Doh.

As if to emphasise the point Raymond aimed the kick towards the corner post to force the 22 drop out. From this return of the ball Tadley sparked another attack led by Clippy resulting in another converted Tadley try this time by Stuart Hutchinson. So after a poor performance by Tadley they came away with an ugly win but a big need for 100% turnout this week at training. They will have to be a lot better in the next few games if they want to improve their points difference, with more commitment, aggression and a sense of urgency.

Man of the match- Clippy