The visitors’ day was capped off on 80 minutes when star winger Aedan Maloney sprinted in for his sparkling hat trick. The convincing win was based on a hugely impressive shift from the Moseley pack. The scrum was too hot for Chinnor to handle and the referee showed no mercy in his incessant penalties and yellow cards.

The game started well for Chinnor who played with the elements in the first half. They attacked directly from the dropped kick off and Holland opened the scoring on 2 minutes when he expertly picked up a 25 metre pass from Alex Dancer to cut inside the cover. Ryan converted from the touchline. This however, was to prove Chinnor’s first and only score of the afternoon.

Moseley launched their first attacks but these were stopped with some good aggressive tackling in the midfield and Chinnor eased the pressure with several turnovers. The game changed on 15 minutes when a combination of indiscipline and injuries badly disrupted Chinnor’s flow. The home side lost Hodson and their captain King to injury.

Moseley spotted the disruption and immediately upped the pace and intensity of their game. After a succession of penalties they had an attacking lineout which was driven over for Roach to score. The visitors then showed great ambition to retain possession under their posts for several phases and eventually unleash the lethal Moloney for him to sprint 80 metres for his first. Hollingsworth rattled the post with his attempted conversion.

At 7-10 up Moseley would have been very happy with their performance against the wind and with their increasingly dominant pack in full flow they could look forward to the second half. They increased their lead after taking the restart and camping themselves on the Chinnor line. Chinnor seemed to have averted the threat with a good scrummage but after some loose play the referee again penalised Chinnor for a minor indiscretion, yellow carded Manning and awarded a penalty try.

Hollingsworth was dictating proceedings with aplomb arrowing some superb touch finders from his armchair ride. One such kick from under his own posts eventually ended up 5 metres from Chinnor’s line. From the lineout Moseley forced a turnover in midfield and Hollingsworth barrelled over. 7-24 on 59 minutes.

Chinnor eventually woke up in the second half and launched some attacks but were really struggling to put any phases together in such an error strewn performance. Things went from bad to worse when a scrum 10 metres from Moseley’s line went down immediately and remarkably the referee thought it prudent to award another yellow card to Gilding.

The visitors’ defence was strong and from a turnover a huge break from the impressive Poole gave Moloney his second after good support on 70 minutes. 7-29. Returning ex Chinnor crowd favourite CJ Osawuza then entered proceedings with a trademark run and offload which resulted in the powerful Cowen scoring on 75 minutes, 7-34. Leaving just enough time for Moloney to complete his hat trick.

Hopefully Chinnor’s injury woes aren’t too serious and the boys can regroup and rest with no game next week.

Chinnor

Goss, Holland,Dancer, King ©, Hodson, Ryan, Hoadley, Cano, George, Gilding,Thomas, Dancer, Burns, Manning, Makaafi,
Reps Southworth, Oliver, Gray, Goodfellow, Barnes

Moseley

Penn,Moloney, Hayward,Fatiaki, Roach,Fidler, Bean,Osazuwa, Geldenhuys, Poole, Le Roux.

Reps Titchard-Jones, Roberts, Cowen, Hearle, Pointon

Referee Mr Veryan Boscawen

Attn 455

by Johnny Vaughan