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25/04/2010
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Cranfordians Colts 15 – 20 Weybridge Colts
Sunday 25th April 2010
It has been a very long but worthwhile journey, starting for me personally when my son Rory was aged 10 & ending with two great years of Colts rugby, only made possible by the enthusiastic input of a core of about 10 to 12 players, including 6 from Old Guildfordians who ended up being very much the heart & soul of the Cranfordians Colts team.
We had played Weybridge in our opening League game of the season back in early October & got hammered 61-0, so if nothing else this result shows how far we have progressed as a team over the course of the season, even if it was not quite far enough to beat them. Even the Weybridge Team Manager Bruce Mitchell said that we had played most of the rugby & deserved to win.
The game started with Cranfordians for once awake & alert. However this did not prevent them conceding the opening score, a converted try as a result of a few weak tackles. The home side then had the best of the rest of the first half as we fought hard for an equalising score. Weybridge were very strong in their fringe defence around the breakdown & twice managed to hold us up over the line when we thought we’d scored.
Just before halftime the visitors made a break from an interception & but for a fantastic cover tackle by Reece we would have been thoroughly demoralised at halftime if we had concede a 2nd score after dominating so much of the 1st half. However we got away with a penalty for killing the ball at the subsequent breakdown, so went into the break only 0-10 down.
For once everyone was very positive in the halftime huddle as Captain Rory Eves extolled them all to up their effort still further for a big 10 minutes, as it was vital for us to get the next score, which we duly did with a penalty to get us on the scoreboard & give all the boys even greater encouragement.
Unfortunately this was to prove a false hope, as despite the Cranes scoring a brace of 2nd half tries, Weybridge Vandals kept on responding & ended up scoring 4 tries of their own, as we traded blows like two punch drunk fighters at the end of a long title bout. The appropriately named Jack Dempsey & James Longbon scored for the home side & Jack Phipps added a conversion & the penalty.
