A tough game against a well organised team. We played some good individual stuff but rarely managed to string anything together, we were constantly being driven off the ball, were often isolated and were a poor second in the lineouts. However there was some good gutsy individual stuff with Josh slicing through to score our first try in the first half and Mayoolua making a scintillating break soon after a lot of hard graft was going on amongst the forwards.... however we were only just ahead at half time.
Soon after half time Tom kicked another penalty but the lead was reduced as the home side scored a well worked try from a scrum on our 5 metre line, five minutes before that we managed to get a hand under the ball as they had attempted another driving maul, we were living on scraps .... showing an A for determination and a C for application. 10-13.
With Michael Parr off to Lewisham Hospital with a droopy wrist, we regrouped with Leo in at 10 and Tom at 9, changes in the pack also gave us a bit of impetus with fresh legs and we lodged on their line for a few minutes only to be driven back to our own 5 minutes later ~ we were holding on ... but only just. We defended well against another driving maul on our line and as they tried to release their backs Mayoolua was there with a smash and grab to leave everyone in his dust! He must have looked good from the sideline but I had the best spot on Colfeans’ try line (hence rather a lot of pics!). Tom put the icing on the cake with another penalty as Colfe's were lucky not to get another yellow card.
The score never looked in doubt from the very beginning ...... honest guv!