The Queen's College Record 2020
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
never about the result, and much more about those you play with. And with that<br />
realisation, things changed. <strong>The</strong> rest of Michaelmas term ended with two victories, one<br />
loss and a draw. <strong>The</strong> highlight was a 50-0 destruction of Merton Mansfield, admittedly<br />
with some help from a team made of many visiting guest stars but with an excellent<br />
Man of the Match performance from our incoming VC, Max Higdon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second term followed in a similar vein, but the highlight occurred in the two<br />
rematches against Merton Mansfield who had strengthened their team. <strong>The</strong> return<br />
league game resulted in a close loss, notably including an unheard of hat trick from<br />
outgoing VC, the stalwart Tom Swift. <strong>The</strong> next week was the real deal though, as we<br />
came up against the same foe in the Cuppers quarter-final. In short, we lost. But it<br />
was perhaps my most memorable game and proudest moment in a QCRFC shirt.<br />
Despite unfortunately missing our Blues of Louis Pincott and Dan Stoller to injuries<br />
and Under 20s commitments, and club talisman ‘<strong>The</strong> Hammer’ Hamish Smeaton to<br />
korfball, the old core pulled together, even managed a training session, and delivered<br />
one of the grittiest performances I have witnessed. Max Higdon was again excellent<br />
alongside a powerful Ebruba Ayovunefe in the row, but physicality came from all over,<br />
especially in Maurice Gedney and Alex Chalk, despite waiting three years to join the<br />
club. Henry Gray was dynamic in centre and Diptarko Chowdhury a frightening tackler<br />
alongside him. In the forwards, old timers like Tom Swift, Beinn Khulusi and Louis<br />
Makower combined with the young and quite aggressive newcomers of Levi Fraser<br />
and Ebube Anyanechi to form a very effective pack. And this was complemented by<br />
Findlay Thompson’s impressive command of a trio of club legends in Sam Caygill,<br />
Jack Wilson and Cai Richards. A few bounces of the ball a different way could have<br />
changed the result entirely, and the likes of Luke McGrath, Luke Geoghegan and Harry<br />
Turner on the bench promises much for the future.<br />
80 <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> | <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2020</strong>
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