St Leonards 1st XV welcomed travelling side Market Drayton for what was a truly entertaining game. St Leonards had a slow start to the game conceding a try within the first 10 minutes, the saints had to tighten their defensive line to stop the strong runners from Market Drayton from scoring again. Market Drayton proved too strong for St Leonards in the first half using the conditions to their advantage and placing a kick into a puddle of water slowing the ball down, picking it up and scoring their second try of the match and they failed to convert any of the tries. St Leonards had to change their tactics and put some score on the card, a strong attack led by Captain Andrew Keeling led to a period of good attacking rugby but Jim Farrow failed to score the drop goal. The Second half proved to be more entertaining as Market Drayton scored their fourth try of the match and converting it. St Leonards led a more dominant second half playing within the opposition half for a majority of the remainder of the match. A yellow card received by Dave Butler for a multitude of offensive meant St Leonards were down to fourteen men but it wasn’t long before Market Drayton’s had a man sin binned as well for repeatedly giving away penalties. St Leonards capitalised on having an extra man with the return of Butler and a strong attacking run by Jim Farrow broke through the Market Drayton defensive line scoring St Leonards first try. The game slowed down near the later part but seconds from the end Carl Butler intercepted a stay pass by Drayton and ran the whole length of the pitch to score, Farrow converted the try meaning the final score way St Leonards 12 Market Drayton 22.The final score doesn’t resemble how close the match actually was, St Leonards need to improve on their defensive line for next week’s away match at Tenbury.