Looking very trim and fit in the unfamiliar red of Hitchin, Carla was also playing in a very unfamiliar position - full-back - a slight change after five years of playing mainly hooker and second row. She even got the game started, kicking off as Hitchin presumably aimed to use the kicking skills that Carala had been unable to use through most of her Letchworth career (first season excepted).
Hertford are a division above Hitchin, and it rather showed for most of the game - Hitchin very hesitant and lacking in confidence (I dread to think what one of two former Letchworth coaches would have said!) and at times Carla looked a bit unsure about where she should be. An elbow in the eye didn't help matters for the former Legend (she gave up her kicking duties after that), but in the second half her team mates began to play a little better and Carla even got in a few runs. Her uncompromising tackling style was also on show, and it was that which brought her game to a premature end with the familiar shoulder injury about 10 minutes before the end.
Elle was also there to watch - a training injury putting her on the sidelines - while Hayley, just back from her summer in Lincolnshire, was unable to make it. Hopefully both will be on the field again soon.
*If anyone has any news of the rugby activities of any other former Legends please let me know!
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