U8's: Glynneath Home 11.02.07

Date 11.02.07

South Gower 5
Glynneath 3
Tries : Fergus Kneath, George Heard, Max Collis (2), Ben Westerholm.

Game Analysis.

Ethan Smith captained South Gower in this well earned win. South Gower had 11 players turn up, so substitutions and squad rotation was inevitable.
Ethan won the toss end elected to start with possession. Our first play resulted in a try. Ethan started with a run before offloading to Tomasso Morgan. In support came Fergus Kneath who raced away to score a good try.
Glynneath came at us with the ball, but great positional defending resulted in South Gower obtaining 6 tags and the turnover. This time, Tomasso had a run and offloaded to Ethan in the tag before George Heard took over after showing good support to score a good try.

George Heard goes over for a try after supporting Ethan.

Again, the South Gower defense was well organised and again we got the 6 tags required to get the turnover. Laura Cheley had a dash before getting tagged and passing to Ethan Smith. Ethan himself was tagged and offloaded to Max Collis who claimed an impressive try.

South Gower's well drilled organised defense was hard to break down.

After another turnover, Fergus Kneath looked to have scored his second of the game but it was harshly disallowed with the referee stating that Fergus was in touch. The picture below catches the moment perfectly and i will leave you to decide !

Fergus (clearly in field) races clear to score but the referee says he was out.

South Gower went into the break 3-0 ahead. For the second half, Glynneath reclaimed one of their players who stepped up to their Under 9's match to help out. So now we played 9 a side. Their returning player made a huge difference claiming all 3 tries for Glynneath in the second half. The half started with a try for glynneath but South Gower replied instantly. Jack Bates had a jinking run before being tagged. Max Collis showed great support and took the pass and raced clear for his second try of the game.

Jack starts a winding run before Max Collis shows great support and scores the try.

Glynneath replied with a try before they got our 6 tags for a turnover in possession. This time though they spilled the ball forward and Ben "The Roadrunner" Westerholm pounced on it. Ben then went on a fantastic long run to score a great try. Glynneath again replied with a try but the final whistle sounded with South Gower winning 5 - 3.
Another excellent performance from everybody with great defense and even better support in attack. Well done.