Walked up to season me mum this morning as I try to do every Sunday but lately I have got in to the habit of just going straight up the canal and back the same way. This morning I wanted to see the dam and if anything had changed since I was last there because of all the bypass construction now going on.

The dam had changed but for a different reason, it was now very overgrown and the field neglected, the place where I grew up looked like no-one visits anymore.

To get there I walked along Poppity Johns and noticed huge changes from the last time I traversed it with Billy. The work on top of the hills at the Cledford Lane end looked “complete” from the pathway the clue being the change in where the pathway takes you and the work that had started on the other side of the fence.

It looked like there was a one meter soil crust on top of the hill now and from my vantage point it looked like it went up and over towards MCC end?

Going in 14 – 3 at halftime was superb a real statement against all those nay sayers who said we always start games slowly and only come alive in the forth quarter. We were up against the team that won it all last season and have the best defence in the league this year so any lead was good but we had also stopped all but one of their possessions without scoring.

It wasn’t so easy in the second half with 6 punts against Seattle’s two scoring drives to take the game to overtime but the defences on both teams made it an ugly Prime Time game that ended with a Denver D interception allowing Will Lutz to kick the winning field goal.

The Seattle Quarterback was the difference he struggled more against a good defence than Bo Nix did! The Broncos recorded 17 hits on Darnold and pressured him more than 20 times and forced vital turnovers at key moments. Nix on the otherhand played a good first half with two 7 point drives and game managed the second half to walk away the victor

If you’d offered me 3 – 3 after the first six games, before the season started I would have taken it but we are sat at 4 – 2 with an easing schedule ahead things are looking OK at Mile High

#Bolieve ##GoBroncos

After last week’s opening night win we were 3 nil down tonight quickly so it was difficult to play anyone else other than MC who was playing his first pool for 6 weeks but is such a great player under pressure.

He did the job and got us on the board but then the dilemma was Dishers only had 6 players and their next two were arguably there best 2 players so there was a decision to be made. I knew they had already played 2 weaker players who I could nominate to players frames 7 & 8 against my 2 stronger of the four players I had left and hope to nick one of the next 2 frames.

Unfortunately we didn’t but my plan of playing their two weaker players meant it was 5 – 3 with two pairs to go. My plan was so close to winning a point when we won the first pairs but AH and me narrowly failed to win the final frame, to lose 6 – 4

So a win and a narrow loss feels ok and we are building confidence in the new players I just need progress from the rest and we’ll be fine.

As the offense continues to spluttering through three quarters, even after Sean Payton took back play calling duties, the defence carries the load keeping them in games until the offense arrives.

The Chargers are struggling more than most with injuries but that can never be an excuse because all teams deal with losing players throughout every season. The Broncos lost PS2 and Riley Moss in their secondary before the game which could have hampered us defensively but the LA offense was so depleted and so bad it made life easier.

Not sure what is wrong with Bo Nix he does not look like the player he was before the season ending injury last year! He doesn’t look like he is confident on the ankle and is not playing freely, hopefully he can get his head right the longer the season goes on?

23-17 win in a half empty SoFi stadium where 40% of those fans that did show up wore orange it was a shame that our struggles on offence continued. When we went 10-17 down in quarter 3 I have to say I had my doubts but 3 take aways by the defense in Chargers territory resulted in a touchdown and two field goals from short field advantages wiped those fears away.

They still left 11 seconds on the clock allowing the Chargers to try a hailmary to win the game but yet again the defense smothered Justin Herbert to seal the victory.