Woz On - A run down of the World Cup and reaction to a General Election

Well, all rather disappointing at the weekend.

I got up early on Saturday morning and joined a packed Honiton Rugby Club to watch England win the world cup final!

Because of our fantastic win against the All Blacks there was much hype and it appeared that all we had to do was, to turn up to win.

I was wincing on Friday as I listened to some jingoistic pr*tt on the radio spouting off about how many we would win by!

Bet he feels a right pl*nker now. It seems obvious to have to say it but "just turning up" has never worked and for me - a 'favourite' tag is often the kiss of death.

I have always preferred to be a simmering confident underdog. Having said all that, I will admit I was expectant and having been sat in exactly the same spot in 2003, I was sort of expecting to be in the seat for the whole day, swilling beer and grinning like a Cheshire cat.

Oh dear! It all went Pete Tong and just seemed to go from bad to worse and come the end, I, like many others I think, felt rather depressed.

When the whistle went, which did put us out of our misery and so much so, that my beer quaffing session was instantly cancelled and I even agreed to go shopping to try and cheer myself up!

We were frankly out scrummaged and out played in all facets of the game. The Boks did a "what we did to NZ" on us. Not sure the ref helped, but then that's just sour grapes, so I'll move on from that conversation!

Still on the bigger scene, what about Sarries?!

They'm bugg*ered and will struggle to come back from that sort of points deduction and fine.

Always a worrying sign when the financial director resigns for no apparent reason.

I must say it's always made me wonder how they managed to have so many more high profile players than other clubs - off shore accounts, holding companies, hedge funds etc, etc. That's apparently the answer.

I wonder how many players will stay loyal when their big wage cuts kick in!

As the usual doubting Thomas that I am, I doubt it's just that club using these loop holes and if the RFU looks at other clubs finances closely, I'm sure they'll happen on some similar skulduggery.

Wonder if the Chiefs will try and get the last two season trophies back? Just wondering!

And finally, a bit of politics to cheer you up even more - an election! Whoopee do.

For the last 10 years or so, there's been no money for anything at all. Labour left a message when getting kicked out, saying: "good luck but there's no money left".

The Tories then, in an attempt to supposedly claw things back, made sweeping cuts to everyone and everything, no pay rises for civil servants! And all the time saying "we must live within our means" and austerity austerity was the nagging theme!

Both main mobs know there is still no real dent in the deficit even after all the pain that we've been through.

Yet, suddenly because they want you to vote for them, they all say there is now a shed load of money available to do whatever with - really?! How exactly does that work?

Is there any wonder why we struggle to listen or trust any of them! And we still have that blinkin "sausage trifle" to get sorted as well! Who to vote for? What about "no nonsense" Nigel or Jimmy Cranky if your Scottish or Jo (I didn't like the last vote, so vote again) Swinton, or the "before it's too late" Green party.

Do you remember the "monster raving looney" party? I say bring them back I feel sure they'd win with a landslide and it occurs to me they were, with hindsight, the only really sane candidates to have stood for election!

Given the above drivel, I guess you've realised that there was no rugby last weekend at Allhallows.

All the counties' senior sides were given the week off to watch the world cup final - and oh how we enjoyed that treat!

I must say, I doubt we would have been able to play any games anyway given all the rain we'd had during the week and having done an early pitch inspection for Sundays kids' games, we instantly called them off as well. My foot sunk into the mud just standing on the field.

For the seniors, at least we didn't get anyone else injured and it's given us a chance to regroup after our Cully mauling.

Our only team to see any action was the under 12's who went to Withycombe to play their game, probably on the only playable pitch in the county and I'm pleased to report they gave an impressive display to come out on top! Hurrah!

So to this week, a busy weekend for sure. A double home, with a lunch for a sponsor which this week is, Synergy Farm Vets.

The Ones have a visit from Falmouth, who haven't been up these parts for a season or two.

Looks like they've struggled on the road, so hopefully with a good crowd, we can send 'em home empty handed as we welcome back a few of our front line troops - both sides look strong.

The Otters host Tivvy and there is usually a good close game between these two teams. Let's hope for a double home win to cheer us all up.

Sunday, we have a full programme for the Juniors - the little guys (7's and 8's) are away to Newton Abbott and the rest play Kerton.

The 14's and 11's are away and we have four teams at home which are the 13's, 12's 10's and 9's. Then when all done… there's a private party in the afternoon so, busy weekend all round!

Next weekend we have managed to rent the club out during the week to a training company, which is good but if you're in the club in the evening it's essential you leave it tidy for the next days' sessions. It could be a good ongoing money spinner, so let's try to impress with tidiness.

So that's about it for this week. Don't forget - help, bargains and benefactors are always needed at the Ton.