Home sweet home for Barns Green RFC (finally!)

Crawley second team played a significant part in making the rugby competitive and highly entertaining and whilst Barns Green ran out 40-27 winners, the game see sawed backwards and forwards before the home side found space on the outside of this newly created pitch, twice in the final ten minutes, to seal the result in this well refereed and even contest.

Local landowners and rugby club sponsors Peter and Anita Burdfield, of the Queens Head, Barns Green have made the field available to the Club on an interim basis to bring it close to their village roots after a 23 year nomadic existence.

Skipper Popeye, James Dickson, Nick Lewis, Jamie Paige, Wasi Barrett and Peter Burdfield himself transformed the field into a excellent playing area.

And with the help of a grant from the Barns Green Half Marathon Committee the pitch would not look out of place in many of the more permanent club sites around the county.

A vice presidents lunch, significant support on the touchline and tries from Tom Viney, Mike Mann, Josh Callaghan, Alfie Dodgeson, Ross Swift and Ryan Watkinson with several excellent conversions from Chris Bailey all combined to make it an afternoon for the club and its many friends to remember.