old brods match report

[dragon buster]

match report from old brods web site

Hobbit in flight

The Beavers took the bus to scunny on a bright mild day and soon shook off the journey. Andrew Crabtree, making his seasonal debut, was soon in the thick of the defensive action as the home side pushed forward from the kick off. The Beavers backs looked dangerous with ball in hand and a mazy run from Dave Bagley put mark Lewis over for the first score. Jammy filling in at flanker was being thrown up in the line and once or twice didn't come down. Referee Paul Hewit made his voice heard as two big packs collided. Hooker Dave Chadwick broke free and Jason Carroll backed up to take play into the scunny 22, Phil Horton took the last pass and made it to the corner. Then Lobby gave the home side their first attacking chance with a sliced defensive kick - the first Beaver moment of the half. scunny kept the ball tight and rumbled up the pitch but once again JC broke away and sped down the touchline, selling the fullback an outrageous dummy to make it 15-0 to the visitors. Then Shed popped up in the line to put Baggers in the clear and the winger took the wide arc only to be bundled into touch. The view on the touchline being that he'd lost a yard of pace since shearing his pony tail. scunny applied the pressure and only the hand of Horton stopped a score as half time came. Scrum half Scott Murgatroyd limped off and informed Team Manager Hill that he'd acquired a patella tendon! So Jammy went to scrum half and was heard asking Ric what side to put the ball in the scrum. John Thomas joined the back row and added a few feet in the line over Jammy. Lobby was working hard to get the Beaver as he high hurdled the Scunny centre instead of tackling him. Jammy at scrum half was actually making breaks with Ric on the touchline being advised to watch and learn. Then came the clash of the skippers.Pressing towards Brods line the home fly half and skipper Mike Sharp dummied instead of passing, not for the first time in his life, and was bezzled by CJ who came away with the ball. Pressing upfield a great handling move involving backs and forwards ended with Dave Hop receiving a pass yards out. In what all felt at the time was THE Beaver moment he dropped it. Afterwards he blamed Deano for passing it to him. Still close to their own line a Scunny clearance kick came to Freddie who caught it at pace, made yards and passed to JC who evaded a tackle and slipped to Deano who put Baggers over in the corner for his hat trick and another jug. Baggers at last kicked a conversion 0-27 and into the last quarter. Paul Ramsden joined the fray for his seasonal debut and tried to raise the team for a final effort "C'mon blues" he yells and straight onto CJ's nomination list. With pretty boy limping off your correspondent joined the action and slipped in at blind side flanker. The observant of you will note that when kett and rammy joined the action Scunny were scoreless I can assure you it was all Rammys fault. In fact yours truly touched the ball in open play for the first time in years and made at least three yards, from the ensuing drive Dave Hop at last crossed the line to make it 0-27. Now during the whole game Scunny's gnarled hooker had been giving it the verbals and after one exchange Robin Webster on the touchline joined in. "You're younger than me you **** , says Scunny hooker, "why don't you get on here and show us how its done?" " I can't I'm disabled" says Robin. Collapse of whole crowd and instant Beaver nomination. scunny to their credit didn't give up and Mike Sharp at last eluded defenders to crash over from 10 yards. Then Douggie got a Beaver nomination for being sin binnned by Mr Hewitt for 5 minutes with 3 minutes to go. The reason lying over the ball, which the home side had been doing all afternoon. In the last play of the game Ned Kelly made the scoreline a little more respectable for the home side and so off for snakebites. No surprise Robin Webster was a stand out winner of the Beaver and after copious jugs the bus set off for Wakefield with strains of Happy Birthday Hobbit wafting across the Lincolnshire countryside.

TEAM: Shed, Dave Chadwick, Steve McAvan, CJ, Douggie, Lobby, PH, Jammy, Scott Murg, JC, Dave Hop, Deano, Mark Lewis, Baggers, Freddie. SUBS; John Thomas, Paul Ramsden, johnkett, Steppy
Images from the match

u can find it on the brods website along with a lot of photos..
www.oldbrodleians.co.uk

[Prof George]

Yeh but was Matt 12 or 7 ?

[Maverick's Bird]

Superb!

[dragon buster]

apparently this is the same match


scunny RUFC Match Report

scunny Rifles (5th’s) 10
Old Brodleains 4th’s 42

The Rifles were at home against the Old Brodleains 4TH team, on a warm October afternoon which was perfect for rugby.
The home side fielded a useful side with Kelly returning at 8, and Tait and Smart making up the rest of the back row. Forster resumed at scrum half with Skipper Sharp returning at 10.
The Rifles started well up the hill with Clarke carrying the ball strongly through the early stages. The front five looked comfortable against the big Old Brods pack. scunny were unlucky not to score a try when Clarke made a clean break with the line at his mercy only to have the ball knocked from his hands.
A speculative kick over the top landed in the hands of the young Brods winger, he then simply rang all the way form his own 22, past nearly every member of the scunny side to score a superb individual try.
The restart was caught by the Brods pack and passed back into the hands of their capable stand off who gave a lesson in how to give a dummy as he passed untouched through the home side back row and then on to score.
Ten points down and barely ten minutes into the game, the Rifles knew they were in for a tough afternoon, but they went back to face the onslaught.
The game seemed easy for the Brods side who were obviously used to playing together, and whilst the scunny tackling improved, their support play was very difficult to defend. The normally reliable scunny line out, failed to perform, and Brods went onto score two more unanswered tries before halftime.
scunny started the second half well poorly when Old Brods kicked into the middle of the scunny defence who all left it for someone else until the Brods winger came and caught the ball and went onto score.
The home side were sprung into action and playing some of their best rugby of the match repeatedly broke the gain line through Kelly and Forster yet were always stopped just short of the line.
The ball came to the back of driving maul ten yards short of the line, Foster picked it up and got a pass away under pressure to Sharp who made good yardage to pick the ball up and then just kept going for the line to score.
Any ideas the home side had about getting back into the game were soon distinguished when Brods managed to build a score from the scunny midfield after a great break from Forster broke down.
Kelly had the final word when after he was stopped short of the line but then carried the ball over the line from 20 yards from the resulting penalty.

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[Prof George]

Fantastic Skipper, but hat off to them it made me giggle with pics anall

[pogmothoin]

A very creative and informative match report, DB you now have to raise the standard, perhaps dare I suggest 2 , one for the paper, and one for the website, keepuing it very much in a similar vein to brods, imitation the best form of flattery.