26/02 NRFC U17’s v Aldershot & Fleet
February 26, 2009
Newbury U17s vs. Aldershot & Fleet U17’s (22/2/2009)
Newbury’s development squad hosted a return visit by Aldershot and Fleet on Sunday, and handed out to them a comprehensive lesson in “the great game”.
It took 6 minutes for the first score to come, a quickly taken penalty by Scot Wilson setting up Matt Maher to drive through and score. Rhys Jenkins converted (7-0). On 16 minutes a drive by Tom Martin came to nothing, but Will Murray picked up the recycled ball and demonstrated a great body angle to drive through 6 or 7 players to score. This time the conversion eluded Jenkins, 12-0.
On 25 minutes a very loose passage of play saw the ball recycled several times. Darren Smith and Matt Maher showed great digital dexterity to cling on to the ball and Rhys Jenkins took the final pass to score. Jenkins converted his own try off the post for 19-0.
For the second half, Newbury brought on the “heavy mob” in the front row of Guttridge, Haynes and Sanders. These three now drove all the scrums back at will. Straight from the kick-off the forwards made good ground and fed the backs, but Maher was just unable to secure the touchdown. Two minutes later Dom Tarquini took the ball off the back of a scrum to score. A couple of minutes later Toby Thorne, Jenkins and Maher all showed great hands to release Pete Burns to score in the corner (converted 31-0).
Aldershot and Fleet to their credit refused to give up and might have scored on 11 minutes but for a huge tackle by Jamie Futcher. But on 18 minutes normal service was resumed as Pete Burns sprinted from a long way out to score his second (36-0). Four minutes later, Jenkins showing some of his old magic sliced through the midfield to within 5 meters of the line. Wilson and then Tarquini made the support, and Tarquini scored for 43-0 (converted).
On 25 minutes Guttridge made a fine run, and when he was stopped Sam Jones was on hand to finish the try. Jenkins converted off the post again for 50.
Finally at the death the ball was spun all the way along the line for Peter Burns to score his hat-trick try, and Jenkins converted for a storming 57-0 win.
Credit to the Aldershot & Fleet boys who never game up and by the end the spectators were all praying for them to get a consolation try. Credit also to all those playing out of position – Tom Clarke in the second row, Toby at fly-half, Matt Maher in the centers and of course full-back Dom Tarquini who was excellent at number 8.
Newbury:- Kennedy; Martin(Haynes); Moore(Sanders); Craigen; T.Clark; Murray; Tarquini; Jones(Guttridge); Wilson; Thorne; Burns; Jenkins; Maher; Smith; Futcher
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