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Seconds,Great Rugby,Great Result
Walter McGuicken21 Nov 2013 - 11:59
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Seconds,Great Rugbt,Great Result
Chinnor Seconds Match Report for 16th November 2013
Chinnor Seconds vs. Jersey Seconds
Chinnor seconds welcomed Jersey RFC to Kingsey road for their first ever international league game. Jersey’s first team play in the Championship, meaning this was destined to be a challenge of note. Although the club has a good pool of players, injuries or the unavailable always present a challenge, but we were able to put out a very competitive side which did us proud. We expected a fast and fit team knowing they had beaten Esher the previous weekend and we had lost to Esher the week before that.
Chinnor came out showing great determination and the want to play running rugby and took the game to Jersey. The first fifteen minutes presented us with two well worked tries, the first by Dan Barnes who cut through the Jersey defence like a dose of salts. The second was from Chinnor’s try line when they turned over the ball and it went along the back line with all players drawing their man. When the ball got to James Serranno on his own 10 metre line, he outpaced the opposition and scored under the posts. Both tries were converted by Sam Angell, and a penalty by Jersey gave Chinnor a well-deserved lead of 14 points to 3. Jersey began to settle more into the game using the advantage of their much larger forwards to drive the home side backwards. Just on 30 minutes they were awarded a converted pushover try whilst Chinnor were down to 14 men for a technical offence. Chinnor then came straight back when Angell dummied his opposite number and scored under the posts, and again he added the extra 2 points. Chinnor increased their lead to 21 points to 10. With the last play of the first half Jersey scored another pushover try which they converted and the half finished with the home side in the lead 21 points to 17
The second half was much of the same with outstanding rugby being played by both teams and the full length of the pitch being used, both sides enjoying moments of good attack and defence. The Chinnor forwards were excellent at handling the bigger opposition and our back row was outstanding. In the last 10 minutes of the game two great cross kicks by Angell first allowed Serranno to take control of the ball and score again with Angell converting, this was followed by the same with Alex Woodhouse, both well worked opportunist tries. Sam Angell was prevented from kicking the conversion due to the ref saying they had taken too long because the ball had not been retrieved fast enough and blew the final whistle. Final score was 33 points to 17 for the home side.
This was a fantastic game of rugby that had the second team supporters happy to see such wonderful rugby played on such a bleak day.
But having to pick only one, Man of the match this week goes to Kai George.
Walter McGuicken
Chinnor Seconds vs. Jersey Seconds
Chinnor seconds welcomed Jersey RFC to Kingsey road for their first ever international league game. Jersey’s first team play in the Championship, meaning this was destined to be a challenge of note. Although the club has a good pool of players, injuries or the unavailable always present a challenge, but we were able to put out a very competitive side which did us proud. We expected a fast and fit team knowing they had beaten Esher the previous weekend and we had lost to Esher the week before that.
Chinnor came out showing great determination and the want to play running rugby and took the game to Jersey. The first fifteen minutes presented us with two well worked tries, the first by Dan Barnes who cut through the Jersey defence like a dose of salts. The second was from Chinnor’s try line when they turned over the ball and it went along the back line with all players drawing their man. When the ball got to James Serranno on his own 10 metre line, he outpaced the opposition and scored under the posts. Both tries were converted by Sam Angell, and a penalty by Jersey gave Chinnor a well-deserved lead of 14 points to 3. Jersey began to settle more into the game using the advantage of their much larger forwards to drive the home side backwards. Just on 30 minutes they were awarded a converted pushover try whilst Chinnor were down to 14 men for a technical offence. Chinnor then came straight back when Angell dummied his opposite number and scored under the posts, and again he added the extra 2 points. Chinnor increased their lead to 21 points to 10. With the last play of the first half Jersey scored another pushover try which they converted and the half finished with the home side in the lead 21 points to 17
The second half was much of the same with outstanding rugby being played by both teams and the full length of the pitch being used, both sides enjoying moments of good attack and defence. The Chinnor forwards were excellent at handling the bigger opposition and our back row was outstanding. In the last 10 minutes of the game two great cross kicks by Angell first allowed Serranno to take control of the ball and score again with Angell converting, this was followed by the same with Alex Woodhouse, both well worked opportunist tries. Sam Angell was prevented from kicking the conversion due to the ref saying they had taken too long because the ball had not been retrieved fast enough and blew the final whistle. Final score was 33 points to 17 for the home side.
This was a fantastic game of rugby that had the second team supporters happy to see such wonderful rugby played on such a bleak day.
But having to pick only one, Man of the match this week goes to Kai George.
Walter McGuicken
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