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Chinnor 2nd XV 3 vs. Rosslyn Park II 24
Saturday 21st January 2006
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Once again Chinnor seconds aimed high, this time against Roslynn Park Stags, who are in Canterbury League 1, equivalent to Chinnor’s First’s in the South West 1 and whose first team is in the national 3 league. This has provided exceptionally high quality opposition for the second week running for the team.

Tom Wood’s boys really lost this game in the first fifteen minutes, by conceding two soft tries through the centre before closing the gap and settling down to compete in the game. The game as usual was physical and hard with both teams giving they’re all. Chinnor pulled back 3 points after 18 minutes with a penalty by Adam White.

In the 28^th minute Simon Matthews was sin binned for ten minutes for removing one of the Rosslyn Park players from our side of the maul, which everyone found a little strange, but this did give the Stags an unfair advantage, and Chinnor conceded a push over try that was converted and the first half finished with Stags 17 point to 3 in the lead.

The second half was as hard as the first but this time the Chinnor boys held their own, as they had done in the last 20 minutes of the first half.  The Stags were lucky not to lose a player when young Ben Hewitt was taken out when following up his chip over the last line of defence that could have resulted in a try.

It was only in the 38^th minute that the Stags managed again to break Chinnor’s defence and increase their lead.

The game finished with Rosslyn Park winning 24 point to 3.

It was a game played by two good teams with very little to chose between them in the end.

All 18 players of the Chinnor team can be very proud of the show they put on for the spectators against such a high quality opposition team. 

Scorers:
Penalties: Adam White