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The  U18 girls go down in a close game. For a short story, click here.

The U18 girls go down in a close game. For a short story, click here.

Mike Yeats8 Feb - 18:05

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Definitely a good close game and one we could have won.
Very proud of them today. Dings are always a good team, and we think they came thinking they would hammer us, and that really didn't happen.

Dings are in the same league as Plymouth Albion.

On a point of interest, I was going to put an apostrophe after Ding, thinking that it had been forgotten and assuming that a Mr Ding had taken part in the crusades in the Levant with his mates.
But it turns out Dings was a slum area of Bristol, and the Shaftsbury Crusade was a mission in the area that encouraged sports in Dings. Thus Dings Crusaders. They formed in 1897.

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