Great to score first try

IT WAS great to finally cross the line for my first try in Albion colours on Saturday against Manchester.

I was beginning to think it wasn’t going to happen. Hopefully, it will be like a snowball effect now and I will keep scoring.

It was especially nice to score my first try at home.

There was some pretty good support there on Saturday and we would probably have had more supporters had Plymouth Argyle not been at home as well.

It was a really important win for us against Manchester after the scoreline the previous week.

We wanted to show the rest of the league that we didn’t deserve to lose by as much as we did at Nottingham and that the team can perform – and I think we did that on Saturday.

We scored 47 points but we could have scored more.

Saturday was also the first time I had seen Graham Dawe play a game.

I thought he performed quite well. I did not know what to expect having not seen him play before, but you have to respect the fact that he can still hold his own.

SINCE my last column Sean-Michael Stephen has arrived at Albion.

It is always nice to have another countryman and a familiar face at the same club as you, although I have made some really good friends here.

I have known Sean-Michael for years. We went to the Canadian Rugby Academy.

It is nice to have him here and he has integrated well into the team already. Everyone has made him feel welcome, just like they did with me, and I am just looking forward to seeing him show what he can do out on the pitch.

Sean-Michael, his wife and myself went down to Camborne on Sunday to watch the Cornish Pirates takes on Exeter.

The Pirates have three Canadians playing for them, which is why we went.

It ended up being a really good game and I am now really looking forward to playing in the derby matches against Exeter and the Pirates.

There was a great turnout for Sunday’s game and I am told that some of the derby games attract even bigger crowds – if that is the case then it will be great.

I DO really want to go and watch the Plymouth Raiders play.

I am so keen to check out some of their games.

I am a big basketball fan, I played a lot at High School and had some scholarship offers to play in the US.

I have missed watching live basketball. It has been a while since I watched a game.

The club I played for in France was in quite a small town.

The only top league sports teams they had were the rugby club and a women’s volleyball team.

We went along to support the women’s volleyball team and they came to support us, but, unfortunately, there was not any basketball. I did, though, become an avid volleyball fan.

I am a sports fanatic. I have appreciation for all sports.

I definitely want to go see Argyle play as well. They are in a good division and I didn’t have any football to watch in France either.

Football is really big in this country. Everyone has a team they follow, but I don’t, I just enjoy watching it.