Vipers vrs Kings
Monday night saw the vipers back in action after the disappointing loss to Eastbourne just before Christmas. After a long and interesting drive for some of us, for one of the furthest trips of the season to play against a well spirited but slightly under powered Kings team.
Vipers had a full squad minus the Richard (flu), Dom and Matt (exams). The plan for the game was to play hard as well as trying out some new rotations and attacks that we have been working on in training. The new plans worked well, but maybe not as consistently as would have been liked.
The starting 6 were Andy L setting, Damien opposite, Mark & Andy C middle and Jimmy & Mickey through 4. This was the same for all the sets other than rotation of the middles plus Paul changing with Mickey to hit through the outside where he had some success killing the ball a number of times.
All 3 sets were similar with Vipers starting strongly and winning runs of points but then allowing Kings to come back into the game with serving/serve receive and hitting errors. The Vipers did win comfortably with to much attacking power for the Kings team.
We must also mention the hard work by the middles to draw the block to allow the glory boys through the wing to be able to kill the ball!
The market dinner won the vote over the pub on the trip home with gut busters for all that could handle it!
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