Havant (Away)

Havant 1st XV 55 vs. Chinnor 1st XV 10
National League 3 South
Saturday 14th October 2006

With half-time approaching, Chinnor were well in the game. They were behind by 8 pts to 5 and indeed had Richard Williams been wearing his kicking boots they could well have held the lead at this juncture. A try by Whittle , from a rolling maul on the half-time whistle put Chinnor just 8 pts in arrears with all  to play for in the second half. However in a 20 minute period after the restart Chinnor leaked 5 tries . It did not make for good watching for the away supporters as a combination of bad defence, ill directed kicking and simple handling errors gifted tries to the now pumped up Havant outfit.

Chinnor started with intent and territorially were a match for their opponents. However pressure should realise points, but unfortunately Chinnor seem to have lost the knack of supplying the final pass that means the difference of being on the score sheet or leaving it blank. With almost their first foray into Chinnor territory Havant took the lead with a try by Raubenheimer from a rolling maul. Chinnor responded with a penalty by Williams A penalty by Ngapaku added to the Havant lead and with Williams failing with three further attempts at goal Havant held on to their slight advantage until the Whittle try in the 5th. minute of injury time.

A try by Cheung- Fook just two minutes after the restart opened the flood gates. Further tries were scored at regular intervals by Hardcastle x 2, his second being somewhat embarrassing from a Chinnor perspective when he fielded a wayward kick and proceeded to waltz through an entire wrong footed  defence to touch down under the posts, Stapleton, Frith and Hannibal. That Ngapaku converted all of these only compounded Chinnor's woes. They did score a consolation try in the final stages when Pyers went over with Williams converting.

For Chinnor , Ben Hewitt again showed touches of class with stand-in skipper Matt Hutchins never giving up and leading from the front.

 

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