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WHEN Peter Young announced his retirement at the end of last season nobody at Haverhill rugby club believed him.

And even after he had spent the summer insisting that he really had hung up his boots there were still those who suspected that his retirement would not last much beyond September.

But no-one at the Eastern Counties Division Two club dreamt that he would be playing again less than two weeks into the new season.
“We opened a book when he said that was definitely it,” said club spokesman Sean McLeod-Jones.

“The end of September was the favourite date, but midway through our second game he went on although protesting ‘I don’t really want to be going in’.

“Then last Saturday he started our cup tie against Burnham on Crouch — although again under protest.
“I suspected something was afoot when he bought a new pair of boots during the summer.”

Young, now a 39-year-old veteran, insists he has not done anything other than what he said he would.

“I helped the club to a level where they should be playing and then took a backward step,” he said.

“But I said I would never leave them in the lurch and I was cajoled into playing.”

Now the chairman of the club playing committee Young’s first retirement came when he quit Brockleians old boys four years ago.

He then joined Haverhill and eventually took on the captaincy as the Suffolk outfit moved up the table to reach Eastern Counties division two.

However, Young’s first game back was ended through injury at the weekend when his side fell 16-5 to Stowmarket.

As well as his rib injury, the team also lost fly-half Mark Jury to knee problems.