Barbarians beats AS Lagny

Yesterday was our first game.  The day started at 730 am. We had breakfast around 8 15 and one hour later we had a team meeting to explain and talk abut how we will play.

At 12:00 m we were picked up from the hotel for a transfer to a restaurant in Montmatre, close to Sacre Cour. We could not go to this church yesterday due time issues and traffic in the motorway.But we saw it and shot photos. We will go on Saturday.

After lunch we decided to go directy to the game, we arrived to AS LAgny for our first game two hours before kick off (630 pm). We were all axcited and ansious to play. It was avery good game, at the beginning we play as individuals but after few minutes we started playing as a team. At the endof the first half we were in front 26-5. In the second half we lost a bit the composture and we got few penalties and a yellow card. But we score another six tries to seal the first victory 62-19.

Playing under French rules was a bit confusing, the field is five mts shortest at the touch line and the in goal line, no pushing in the scrum and no lifting in the line out and it is played 12 A Side with free changes/substitutions, so all players have the chnace to show how good they are. Fortunately the reef spoke english.

After the game we were invited to AS Lagny club house  to ave a snack and drinks, the president of Lagny gave a speech t thanks us for the visit and game. After their speech we thanked them for the game and hospitality. We gave our tie to their coach, president and captain of the team. Also we gave away five Reds capsand surprisingly some Lagny players knew about the Queensland's team.

It was a great expeience it was not a language barrier our boys tried to speak a bit in frenchand the Lagny made an effrt to speak in english, the spend time talking to each other, laughing, and having a lot of fun. At 9 pm was time to get back on the bus and return to the hotel.

Score: Barbarians 62: Tries:Josh Christian (1), Elijah (2), Jack Otago (3), Hamish (1), Dan Ryan (1) James Smith (1) Jordan Skinner (1). Convertions: Hamish (6)
AS Lagny: 3 tries, 2 convertions.

Next game is on Thursday against Val d'Europe.