Manor 3s play well but fall to a strong barking side.

Manor travelled to Barking to kick off the new year. Manor welcomed back Cushy from his enforced spell on the sidelines after his grumpiness in a pub had offended someone. Dave Dennis made his return after nearly 2 years out to the front row. Elsewhere in the team American Josh made his third team debut and Tomcat made his long awaited return from injury.

Warming up manor were confidant and knew they had a much stronger team that last time the two teams met. However as the game kicked off it quickly dawned on manor that this was a suspiciously strong barking side with some very, very good players on show for them.

Manor rose to the occasion and battles hard. With barking controlling the majority of the game manors defence held strong led by the South African number 8, riaan. Barking however managed to get a score in the first half and manor were unable to score but some good play from Damore had given manor their best chance with an excellent 50metre break.

In the second half manor realized the need to push on and they started well with Cushy running over a simple try. Manor had the impetus however sadly couldn’t push on and score another try.

As the game grew on manor started to tire and barking's backs managed to score two tries to win the game.

Humorous moments included Jack white pretending he was Jonah lomu knocking on of the bigger barking forwards backwards, Dave Dennis and his amazing sounds made with his coughing, Tom howell running all different angles when returning kicks and Werner’s box kick that managed to go backwards.

There were many good performances with Jack White, Luke, Cushy and Sam all having good games but the stand out performer was American josh who celebrated with a rousing rendition of the American anthem in the clubhouse later (followed by a large amount of drinking)