Whoah. But what’s this? Miokovic had offloaded the ball to Delonge! And there’s no one at home now. Delonge pumps his fist in the air and blows kisses to his mum in the stand, who appears to be involved in some kind of gang bang in the cheap seats. This doesn’t put off Delonge, who’s clearly seen all this before. He dots down under the posts for the first try of the season. An easy conversion for Marshall. 7 – 0 to the Vikings. (Payout to Any Other Player in the First Try Scorer stakes)<O</O
10:30 Pilgrim with the ball for the Canes. Deep in Vikings territory, about 20m from the line. Offloads to Taylor who takes a run at the defence – evading a lame tackle from James.
The cover defence is there though, and Taylor has nowhere left to run. Well inside the 22 now, he goes for a change of tack, passing off to Wilkinson. Miokovic is there, but is left groping as if feeling for the ripeness of melons as Wilkinson ducks head down below his swinging arm. Things are opening up here, so Wilkinson tries to pass back to Taylor, but he’s completely off balance and throws an awful pass. Taylor can’t gather it and knocks it on. The ref plays advantage as Cambridge picks the ball up and boots it downfield and into touch somewhere around the 10m mark.