El Pedro, your ususal correspondent, had a big stroke of luck in that he had to leave the game early. Unable to make notes because of my video duties I was all prepared to sit back and watch it again before writing this report. Not a chance!

The crazy thing is that we were solid in the line-outs, and not only stopped Redcar pushing us around in the scrums we actually managed to take a couple against the head.

But the runners of last week never got into their stride. Redcar admitted they feared us running the ball in perfect playing conditions, but the ball seemed as slippery as the oysters we downed at last night's Irish night fundraiser. If we weren't dropping the ball we were throwing aimless passes to invisible men.

The first half was especially dreary. Davy Tighe looked our only hope of a score and he did wriggle through and go for the line half way though the first half. As the defenders closed in he dived for the line but the Referee ruled it was a double movement. A quick look at the video shows this was a very harsh decision but Mr John Wolstenholme made far less mistakes than the players.

It was a very fair nil-nil at the break. Redcar, desperate for points, came out with some more commitment and deserved their win for keeping the game in our half. Everytime we tried to break the move quickly broke down and, inevitably, Mark Patterson went over in nthe corner after the ball was spun out to the left. He fimished the scroing with a penalty near the ned.

In betweeen Davy Tighe had kicked through and dived for the score under a challenge from two defenders. The ball squirted forwards a metre or two where one of the supporting West players touched down, but Mr Wolstenholme ruled that it had been Davy's touch which had kocked on. Again, possibly a harsh decision but an understandable one.

So that was it. Only six points to show for five trips to Yorkshire and four games without managing a single point.

It's a fact not lost on the lads who were as cheesed off as the supporters. If the memory lasts two weeks than Horden may just see the side that beat Westoe and Malton and Norton. Who knows.