Sun 13 Oct 2019, 11:30
The most pleasing aspect of the this game was the fact we actually got to play, we had been let down last minute by our league opponents and reached out to the local rugby community and on Saturday lunchtime Chinnor were let down so a match made in heaven for us both!!
As result Chinnor had to travel to us and due to the late change only had 13 fit player attend, we have good numbers this season and were able to give them 3 players (which we rotated throughout the fixture) special mention to all those boys who gave 100% effort against their team mates, to the extent we nearly subbed Dagan from their team when he stormed through to nearly score!!
A great start to the game saw us score early on with Man of the Match Dan Thomas scoring a well worked try and converted by Will, we then continued where we left off from last week, with some good phase play and a combination of forwards and backs play with the ball being moved out to the wings on a quite a few occasions, although straighter lines and quicker hands will create more space for the wingers as we work into the season.
Two further tries from Kye Takeeuchi-Brown and Luke Burkey (this was created by a superb charge down by Dan) both were converted by Ben Tope, and we finished the first half leading 21-0.
Several changes were then made with players rotating into Chinnor which did have an effect on the quality of rugby however the attitude and effort was amazing throughout a disjointed half, especially when the ref decided to have a water break half way through the half, perhaps I missed the Japan style humidity meaning fluids were needed!!
We then witnessed a very rare sight at Kingsmead,….. a drop goal!! This scored by Billy an easy 3 points and executed perfectly, more please!
Our last try was scored by Ben Tope and converted by Jack with no more points in the half, a lesson here is to be more ruthless when you have a lot of procession, with individuals rembering the basics and use the simple options, it’s a team game lads and better decision making!!
Final Score 31-7
Work on areas, straight running, use the simple option, work hard on the floor when tackled, be more ruthless and PLEASE PLEASE SORT OUT THE CHOIR IN THE CHANGING ROOMS!!
Woodsy
