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Another home game this week, when Stortford welcome London Irish Wild Geese to Silver Leys. The visitors gave us a real scare back in November, taking an early lead through their very lively backs, before Stortford fought back to grind out a win. Since then things have not gone too well for the Wild Geese and they currently sit just one point above the relegation zone. Although their last 4 matches have all ended in defeat, they did, push Canterbury close away from home 2 weeks ago and we all know about the fighting spirit of the Irish! Last week saw a heavier defeat at home to Clifton, which was put down to the visitors' scrummaging, so this may be a game for Stortford to temper our normally expansive game - at least initially. We shall certainly need to be defensively on our toes, if we are to maintain our run of successive bonus point wins.