A game of two halves
Hi Guys,
Rugby date 18/9/10 home against Thornton Cleveleys 2 score 13-12
Once again another hard battle but as the title says a game of two very different halves, first half kicked of and the Burn players took the challenge straight to the visitors. Applying Pressure from the kick with a superb catch and charge from second row specialist Martin Jessop. With stand off Nick Archer making the most of the wind advantage we soon camped in the visitors half, and the forwards started to assert their dominance at the set piece and break down. Jim Coleman at scrum half again was given a armchair ride from the platform the marauding pack gave. With new boys to the mighty thirds Ben and Adam in the backs giving plenty of pace to back line, Burn pushed hard to pressure the visitors line. But Thornton stood strong for the first 10 minuets with a good defencive effort, however the pressure cooker soon came to the boil with number 8 John Bank crashing over to get the first points for Burn. Nick adding the extras once again. Once again a good catch from the restart saw new boy Allan Clunes have a dart down the line making twenty yards with little effort. Quick ball putting Burn on the front foot and Thornton on the back foot saw our back line cut through the visitors. A penalty awarded straight in front of the posts gave Nick an easy chance at three more points. Thornton restarted once again and hadn't learnt from their previous kicks once again putting the ball straight down our forwards neck. A good ruck ball and then some straight running once again took us deep in to the visitors half. Once again Burn dominating at the breakdown putting Thornton on the back foot and result another penalty and Nick doing the honors. As half time approached Burn looked in control with good discipline and the visitors moaning at the referee.
After a couple of changes at half time seeing the return of old favourite Alf Williams we where ready to kick off, Tom Holden and myself leading the chase and putting the pressure on the Thornton receiver. Burn challenging hard at the breakdown forced the penalty from the visitors. Nick narrowly missing from the kick and Thornton with a bit of open field to run at broke out of their 22. Soon it was the visitors turn to apply some pressure and as Thornton started to take the game to the Burn pack the referee started to turn against the home team. A penalty been awarded against the home team on our 10 yard line saw the first flash of yellow. Alf been deemed to have gone over the top and killing the ball, a funny decision from the ref to bin him as he had only been on the pitch 5 Min's and we had not received any warnings prior. However we where down to 14, and had a lot of defending to do. Thornton pressed hard and where soon camped in our 22 when the ref once again blew his whistle and reached in to his pocket, this time second row P.G. going in the bin again killing the ball. With 13 on the pitch and only 6 forwards Thornton opted for the scrum, but the mighty thirds dug deep and repelled the attack, It was however only a matter of time before the numbers gave the visitors their first score going over as the Burn defence was stretched to far. Thornton missing the extras on this occasion but coming straight back at the Burn defence, which although creaking managed to with stand the battering. The return of Alf buoyed the home team and they where starting to make their way out of their 22 when Martin Jessop deemed to go in high with a charge. the result was yet another yellow and burn down to 13 again. With our two lock forwards languishing in thew bin Thornton opted for a scrum, i think they planned to push us the full 35 yards to our try line. But replacement James Caunce moving to second row with Alf, Andy Snape moving to 8 and Asad myself and Stuart Rouse in the front row we packed down. I don't know who was more surprised us or Thornton but not only did we not move backward we managed to push the visitors scrum of 8 off the ball overturning the scrum. However it wasn't easy for Burn and it wasn't long before Thornton where stretching us again and going over for a second score, this time adding the extras leaving them 1 point behind. As our sinners returned we managed to hold out the visitors as they threw all they had at us, it was a long last 5 minuets but we managed to secure field position and retain the ball to close out the game and pick up yet another win.
I don't think our discipline was at fault this weekend, however you have to adapt to the referee, and we didn't manage the ref particularly well this Saturday. We must improve on our technique and maintain a disciplined line, adapt quickly to the ref and the conditions and stop leaking points and penalty's. This weekend we travel to close rivals Bolton, again this will be a difficult game and I would like as many down training on Thursday as possible. If you can let me or keith know your availability as soon as possible. Also coming up soon on the 9Th of October we travel to Hutton, we will be making the journey as robbers and fancy dress will be compulsory. This is a advance warning we will be having some fun this day and fines will be levied for fun suckers, OK.
Regards Carlos(captain).
Rugby date 18/9/10 home against Thornton Cleveleys 2 score 13-12
Once again another hard battle but as the title says a game of two very different halves, first half kicked of and the Burn players took the challenge straight to the visitors. Applying Pressure from the kick with a superb catch and charge from second row specialist Martin Jessop. With stand off Nick Archer making the most of the wind advantage we soon camped in the visitors half, and the forwards started to assert their dominance at the set piece and break down. Jim Coleman at scrum half again was given a armchair ride from the platform the marauding pack gave. With new boys to the mighty thirds Ben and Adam in the backs giving plenty of pace to back line, Burn pushed hard to pressure the visitors line. But Thornton stood strong for the first 10 minuets with a good defencive effort, however the pressure cooker soon came to the boil with number 8 John Bank crashing over to get the first points for Burn. Nick adding the extras once again. Once again a good catch from the restart saw new boy Allan Clunes have a dart down the line making twenty yards with little effort. Quick ball putting Burn on the front foot and Thornton on the back foot saw our back line cut through the visitors. A penalty awarded straight in front of the posts gave Nick an easy chance at three more points. Thornton restarted once again and hadn't learnt from their previous kicks once again putting the ball straight down our forwards neck. A good ruck ball and then some straight running once again took us deep in to the visitors half. Once again Burn dominating at the breakdown putting Thornton on the back foot and result another penalty and Nick doing the honors. As half time approached Burn looked in control with good discipline and the visitors moaning at the referee.
After a couple of changes at half time seeing the return of old favourite Alf Williams we where ready to kick off, Tom Holden and myself leading the chase and putting the pressure on the Thornton receiver. Burn challenging hard at the breakdown forced the penalty from the visitors. Nick narrowly missing from the kick and Thornton with a bit of open field to run at broke out of their 22. Soon it was the visitors turn to apply some pressure and as Thornton started to take the game to the Burn pack the referee started to turn against the home team. A penalty been awarded against the home team on our 10 yard line saw the first flash of yellow. Alf been deemed to have gone over the top and killing the ball, a funny decision from the ref to bin him as he had only been on the pitch 5 Min's and we had not received any warnings prior. However we where down to 14, and had a lot of defending to do. Thornton pressed hard and where soon camped in our 22 when the ref once again blew his whistle and reached in to his pocket, this time second row P.G. going in the bin again killing the ball. With 13 on the pitch and only 6 forwards Thornton opted for the scrum, but the mighty thirds dug deep and repelled the attack, It was however only a matter of time before the numbers gave the visitors their first score going over as the Burn defence was stretched to far. Thornton missing the extras on this occasion but coming straight back at the Burn defence, which although creaking managed to with stand the battering. The return of Alf buoyed the home team and they where starting to make their way out of their 22 when Martin Jessop deemed to go in high with a charge. the result was yet another yellow and burn down to 13 again. With our two lock forwards languishing in thew bin Thornton opted for a scrum, i think they planned to push us the full 35 yards to our try line. But replacement James Caunce moving to second row with Alf, Andy Snape moving to 8 and Asad myself and Stuart Rouse in the front row we packed down. I don't know who was more surprised us or Thornton but not only did we not move backward we managed to push the visitors scrum of 8 off the ball overturning the scrum. However it wasn't easy for Burn and it wasn't long before Thornton where stretching us again and going over for a second score, this time adding the extras leaving them 1 point behind. As our sinners returned we managed to hold out the visitors as they threw all they had at us, it was a long last 5 minuets but we managed to secure field position and retain the ball to close out the game and pick up yet another win.
I don't think our discipline was at fault this weekend, however you have to adapt to the referee, and we didn't manage the ref particularly well this Saturday. We must improve on our technique and maintain a disciplined line, adapt quickly to the ref and the conditions and stop leaking points and penalty's. This weekend we travel to close rivals Bolton, again this will be a difficult game and I would like as many down training on Thursday as possible. If you can let me or keith know your availability as soon as possible. Also coming up soon on the 9Th of October we travel to Hutton, we will be making the journey as robbers and fancy dress will be compulsory. This is a advance warning we will be having some fun this day and fines will be levied for fun suckers, OK.
Regards Carlos(captain).
No comments:
Post a Comment