Dave Greenshields - York deserve credit
Roses truly is a fantastic event. A total of 107 fixtures took place over four days ranging from equestrian, to skiing, and rowing to rugby. I’ve had a great weekend,and obviously it’s a shame the trophy went in the wrong direction, but Tom Moore and his team deserve credit and we’ve got to be proud of our competitors.
After Friday’s performance I think it was always going to be difficult to recover, and perhaps it could be said that we lost it on the first day. However, you’ve got to believe you can win or there’s no point in any of this.
Going into the final day I genuinely believed we might be in with a sniff, but we needed everything to go our way today and it didn’t. The Regatta on Sunday morning didn’t go as well as I had hoped, and if we had won I think we would have been in with a really good chance of retaining the trophy. But it was not to be and even though the rowing boys did fantastically well, we needed a 20-0 to hold any chance of victory.
Reflecting on the weekend as a whole, my personal defining moment of the weekend was the Men’s Rugby 1sts. Despite the controversy that has surrounded the club over the past few years, we’ve seen the re-generation of a team that was in a bad place.
From a sporting perspective, I feel the defining moment came in the first over of the Men’s cricket 1sts on Saturday when we lost two wickets in the first over. That was a bad over for the rest of the weekend, however I’m not in a place to say who performed badly.
Finally, I’ d like to thank Tom Moore, my stewarding team and the competitors for a brilliant and memorable weekend.
