Braintree face up to a gruelling two games in 48 hours this weekend - providing the perils of the English winter don't intervene and thwart their plans to play their first competitive rugby of the new year for a second week running.
The black and ambers were due to entertain Lowestoft and Yarmouth in a Powergen London North East Four league fixture at Robbswood last Saturday, and then travel to Brentwood for an Essex Cup second round clash just 24 hours later.
But both games were postponed due to frozen pitches as Arctic weather conditions descended on East Anglia to cause havoc to sporting fixtures across the whole of Essex.
Since last weekend temperatures have been on the up and pitches all over the region have thawed out - leaving Tree to face yet another weekend 'double header' desperate to get back into competitive action.
Tomorrow the black and ambers make the trip up the A11 to face Norfolk side Thetford in their picturesque ground deep inside Britain's largest lowland forest with a side which contains a mixture of youth and experience.
And just 24 hours later - weather permitting - they will hop down the A12 to Brentwood for their re-arranged Essex Cup second round clash hoping to make timely progress in a competition they want to do well in after dumping Essex rivals Maldon out in the first round.
Published Friday, January 17, 2003
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