

Gift of the gab or what?.....Catherine pulls with ease

Tesco Direct leave an online order with some highly disreputable characters outside the changing rooms whilst the gofah is summoned

A month or so after he should have, Ben warns Chris to keep a wary eye for the geezer with the camera and beanie.....whoosh! goes the advice as Chris looks directly at said geezer. Mark meanwhile struggles to work out how to shorten the handle on his trolley.

Zelah Maid checks with Stan that he has this weeks dissetation ready for handing in shortly..oh..and there will be a short test to make sure he hasn't copied and pasted directly from the web

Inside the club house and Pirate and Exile fans' chit chat is interupted by merriment at the bar

The Dreckly commentary team have enjoyed their 'lunch' a little too much as Steve encourages an underage microphone to embibe

Blazey shows his distaste but decides not to embarrass any ladies present, preferring instead to issue an indignant but nonetheless authoratitive burp.

Jones the Steam waits for things to calm down

Discussion in the studio inevitably turns to the late arrival of their groceries

Which is hurriedly rushed across the pitch by Boy!


Spreaders delight at the honour of appearing on a Pirate website is evident, although the inevitable earbending that beckons from Dick and Steve is a concern

Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Ka ora!.....

"I say Mater! Mr Garner's HaKa is frightfully quaint. What say you too Captain Blazey?" chortles Miss Zelah; trying terribly to blend in with Richmonds finest

Keen as mustard, Tom can't bear the thought of not being first in the line

The others though are not impressed and consider possible insertion of the satellite dish

Called up from the under 7 squad, new London Welsh skipper, Ben Harri, receives last minute instructions for the game ahead. Understandably though, he is more concerned with....

...the size of the mascots he has to lead out.

The match gets underway with the first challenge being to see how deep Ben can be buried with the minimum of fuss

Which amuses a section of the crowd bar one sleepy ba-lamb who has seen it, done it, and bought the Welsh polo shirt

Chilts keeps a respectable distance and observes the master at work......Ed hopes his feed is up to scratch too

It's basic for sure, but the self applied tapework should keep the ear on for the duration

Wind seems to be obligatory as some potential piratical imposters blow their cover. No doubt Para will investigate after the match

Mark checks with Sir if it's OK to leave as the air compressor is fired up and attached to the industrial stapler ready. Should fix the gash OK although there is a roll of black tape on standby sportingly offered by the Welsh physio

Red Five's fan club offers more encouragement

Competitive to a fault. Tom puts in his effort for a crack at a place in the famous Tiller Girls Troupe...

Lewis-Pratt though has for more height and range and is offered the contract

To the Welsh fans' appreciation...well most anyhow. One diehards' attention has been centred elsewhere

The appearance of the latest Pirates Virgin (please advise name again) which has a knock on effect on the pitch

Chris seems the only one not have noticed he's been dribbling and still hasn't cottoned on as the plastic bib with tray is fetched

Her 'Keepers' though seem a little lax in their duties and watch the game instead

Ed is informed there is someone to see him

Marika is fitted with some specially weighted boots to slow him down and give the others a chance of catching him

At the whistle, Rob sneaks off to investigate some marketing opportunities at the beer tent

Mark's wound seems to be healing nicely. It's just a case of whether he notices he has become part of a hush hush experiement involving an implant which is possible given his [alleged] reputation for heavy mirror usage.

What is it they say about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and always getting their (wo)man.....?

The South Africans gather and throw around the various bionic options available to getting a workable pair of arms between them

Stan laughs with Brooce at the whole Frankenstein-like notion, but decides to shuffle away in case his limbs are considered

Besides he needs to hand in his Uni project to Rod and Dave.

Para Nahen eventually catches up with the fake buccaneers and checks their credentials

Some Kennington Pirates have been lured in front of the camera with promise of Sloane-like notoriety in the gossip columns....suckers!
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