U10's vs Gowerton (Away)

14.10.07

Gowerton 20 (4 tries)

South Gower 10 (2 tries)

We had an amazing 22 players at practice and 18 players turn up for the game this week which was superb. Gowerton had 17 players so due to the large numbers, 3 10 minute thirds were played.

The game started much better than last week with pressure being exerted by South Gower and everyone driving over in the rucks.

Some good rucking initially gave us the advantage

This pressure paid off when Harry pushed over a defender, picked up the ball and sprinted to score. Gowerton came back with some strong running by some large boys however our tackling had significantly improved from last week and we stopped their attack. Unfortunately we just ran out of space and Gowerton tied the game at the first interval with a strong drive.

The whole team (with the exception of 2 players) was then switched. Gowerton started the second third very strongly and scored a push over try due to some high tackling. We did not really have much space to run and when we did, we chose not to pass and lost the ball in the tackle. Some sloppy defending led to a third try by Gowerton after we dropped the ball over our own line.

We did not look ready for the ball just before we dropped it and they scored

Just before the second whistle, Gowerton broke away and scored their fourth try which took the score to 4 tries to 1.

George just misses the tackle with a double pike dive but Tom and Dan were covering and took him down

In the final third, we tried to switch the players to ensure everyone played the same amount of time. Tackling and pressure improved which caused Gowerton to lose the ball near their line and Owen E was on hand to pick up and score. The South Gower coaches made their final substitutions however the ref did not stop play which meant we had 16 players on the pitch at once - interesting. Normality was almost restored and after some good breaks and crunching tackles, the final whistle blew.

A very good game which was again frustrating as it could easily have been won if all 18 players were awake. Final score 20 : 10 - although we drew, lost then won each of the thirds.

Win, lose or draw, the boys still sang at the end of the game : well done !