Royal Retain Courage Cup.

The RMRL continued their beat-up for the Parachute Regiment with a comprehensive defeat of the RAF Regt at RAF Honington on Thursday.
The Corps performed infinitely better than the England football team in Brazil, which resulted in the RMRL retaining the Courage Cup, winning it for the tenth time in the competitions’ 13 year history. Lead admirably by Mne Tom Marchant the Corps strode to a 22 point lead at half time playing some fine, expansive rugby. The sole response from the hosts was to open the scoring with a penalty kick in the 4th minute.

The RMRL started the second half slowly but ultimately the men in white proved too strong and dominated both territory and possession to score at will with some fine running rugby, support play and accurate, tactical kicking. Set completion was much improved however some basic errors didn’t limit the opportunities to score.

The RAF Regt scored a well worked and deserved try in the second half, scored as close to the RM left hand corner as you could get. But it was too late in the game to threaten a comeback and Royal went on to score two more converted tries before the final whistle.

Scorers included: Raumakita, Toogood, Downey-Stevenson, Kamikamica, Taylor, Loxam and Carter, with Cadywould and Marchant sharing the kicking duties.

The RMRL are unbeaten against service sides and having only lost one match all season, they now fly out to Australia to play 3 fixtures in 9 days against civilian clubs, culminating with a Test Match versus the Royal Australian Navy in Sydney on 4 July.