Newbury U17’s Squad v Grove U17’s, Sun 14th Sept 08
September 24, 2008
Newbury U17’s started their 2008/2009 season with a friendly/training game against Grove U17’s at Newbury RFC
The match was split into four 20min quarters allowing plenty of substitutions and drink breaks, both Grove 28 players and Newbury 30 players had agreed to get all the boys on the pitch for some match time.
Newbury started the strongest and spent long periods camped in the Grove half in the first 15 minutes but were unable to convert the pressure into points, a mixture of good defence from Grove and over eagerness from Newbury giving away penalties and losing possession.
The breakthrough eventually came with some good forward play resulting in debutant back row Jamie Gutteridge crossing the try line 5-0 the Blues. Towards the end of the first half a great run from another debutant center Remi Digby cut apart the Grove defence resulting in him going over close to the posts, Rhys Jenkins converting 12-0 to the Blues.
The second half saw several changes by Newbury but this did not seem to disrupt the play and after several good flowing moves Remi Digby scored his second try in the corner 17-0 to the Blues. This seemed to sting Grove into action and they managed to break through the Newbury defence with some powerful running to make the score 17-5 to the Blues. More substitutions failed to disrupt the style of play and after some good phases of flowing rugby George Rossiter scored to make the score 22-5 to Newbury. The Blues were now gaining the upper hand over Grove and the ball went through several phases of forward and backs play before the ball was spun out to winger Darren Smith who outstripped the Grove defence to touchdown under the posts George Rossiter converting 29-5 to Newbury. More good play from Newbury resulted in the forwards mauling several yards allowing Rhys Moore to gather the ball and crash over the line making the final score 34-5 to Newbury.
Sweet revenge for the 22-0 defeat the development squad suffered at Grove last season.
A good all round performance from every member of the squad giving the Blues a winning start to their season. Well done to you all!!
Newbury Squad: -
J. Bartlett, P. Burns, J. Caunt, D. Clarke, T. Clarke, D. Craigen, L. Davies, R. Digby,
R Drysdale, T. Dyer, J. Futcher, L. Gibson, J. Gutteridge, J. Haynes, M. Hobbs, R. Jenkins,
S. Jones, C. Lawrence, J. Love, T. Martin, J. McIntyre, J. Monger, R. Moore, W. Murray,
G. Rossiter, T. Sanders, J. Sherratt, D. Smith, T. Thorne, B. West.
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