Having lost to a strengthened Westcliff III's last week, Campion II's returned to winning ways to earn a hard fought win against a 13 man London Lithuanians side at Cotton's Park. Campion stumbled to victory at home in what proved to be a stern examination of their resolve and physicality.

Lynch, Dunne, Jones, Tiernan, JCB, Carter, Rogers , Hill, Frost, Ronayne, Ryan, Lidlow, Joe Arnone, O'Connor, L.McEvoy, W. Baldwin, Tucker, John Arnone

This was one of the poorest displays from a Campion second team for many years and possibly one of the worst games of rugby seen at Cotton's Park over the last decade. The game was fitful, full of stoppages due to the determination and indiscipline of the opposition. Lithuania, to their credit, were hard edged, aggressive and not lacking in any muscle or spirit despite playing the entire game with 13 very large and powerful men. We were outfought at times as our mentality from the off was poor and game management woeful. Luckily we won and escaped injuries. The game is now behind us, and many lessons are there to be learnt from the opposition, such as their hard straight running and physical commitment, something that has been lacking in recent weeks.

Against 13 men London Lithuanians, Campion embarrassingly found themselves 0-7 down midway through the first half before waking up and running in 4 quick tries from Pat O Connor, Sam Lidlow, George Rogers and Liam McEvoy before half time. Tom Ronayne converted one to give Campion a 22-7 lead at half time. The second half continued in fits and starts, remaining scoreless for a long period until remarkably Lithuania scored a well deserved try to bring the score to 22-12. Campion rallied, spurred on by a yellow card to an opposition player for serious ill disclipine, to score two late tries through George Rogers and Sam Lidlow
to leave a final score of 32-12.

All in all, it was a rather messy unmemorable affair - next week we play Woodford, training Monday and Wednesday (including for those unfit) and let's turn up at Woodford with the right attitude to play rugby rather than the arrogance on display this week