None the wiser

The "St Patrick's Day" match is always an occasion, with plenty of rugby first-timers joining the crowd to watch a game and then enjoy the party. The Gloucester following always seem to embrace the party too and that makes for fun. With the recent changes to the London Irish coaching set-up there was more than a little speculation about what would happen. Would the new guys make the needed difference?I was pleasantly surprised by the crowd numbers when I arrived. With the club's announcement that they intended imminently to return to West London it has felt a lot like the local Reading support has disengaged and that support is really needed for the St Pat's party. A crowd of over 15,000 watched a fascinating, exciting and reasonably entertaining game - whether any of them will stick with the club in coming years remains to be seen. Who knows? Maybe they were all from West London.