Hi chaps
Saturday’s game against Feltham was a game we gave away and the least said at this stage of the season the better!!!
Feltham has always been known for having beefy forwards and Saturday’s team was no exception. Accordingly, our game plan was to unleash our outside line as a priority and to play the game wide!! Good basic ploy and as the ref said afterwards to me at the bar “why didn’t you use your outsides, you would have won by a huge margin!”
Our forwards played well but could not provide the platform needed to launch our outside line and when we had the opportunity for some reason the forwards would then take the ball back into the Feltham forwards or we would make an isolated dash straight for the Feltham forwards only to be turned and the ball lost!!
On the few occasions the outsides had the ball the we scored on the wings through Will scoring two tries and converting one and Ian again on the outside scorching down for another try and then Johno mid field break getting another one .
Jamie on the odd occasion he received the ball made a great run down the wing and was just stopped five yards short of the line by an 18 year old sub that had been brought on at half time.
The Feltham pack scored five tries down the mid filed and converted one to give a final score of 27 point to 25 to Feltham!!!
From any aerial shot of the game all the action took place in the middle of the field and although our forwards defended well they had little hope of stopping the relentless force of Feltham…our outsides had to go looking for the ball ….
Have a
close look at the great photos Tony has taken and you will see we certainly
put the effort in and no complaints on that one ….it would just have
been great to have given the outsides the ball and won!!
Colin Lenthall
Founder,
President, Chairman and sometime Captain of this mad bunch of players