Under 11's V Tumble 7/2/10

7th February 2010

Tumble 0 - South Gower 28

Tries - Paul Jones (2), Cameron Barker, Kieran Charles.

Conversions - Kieran Charles (4)

South Gower travelled to Tumble with a squad decimated through illness and injury. We took 12 players out of our 22 registered. We did not have enough backs in our squad and therefore asked Tom Jenkins from our under 10's to make the step up for this game. The pitch was really muddy and it was very cold.
The game itself was really scrappy with a lot of dodgy passes and silly knock ons. However, South Gower were applying pressure all the time. After a lovely run from Luke Davies, we were awarded a penalty 10 metres from Tumbles line. The set penalty was taken and Jack Bates took the ball on the switch to be tackled a few metres from the line. Jack offloaded in the tackle to a rampaging Paul Jones who went over in the corner for his first try of the game. Kieran Charles stepped up and nailed the conversion.

Half Time:

Tumble 0 - South Gower 7

We came into the game more in the second half and started well. Tom Jenkins had a lovely run down the wing and was tackled well into touch 10 metres out. From the lineout, Paul Jones won the ball and went straight for the corner where he registered his second try of the game. Kieran converted.
Our forwards were really performing this week and good work turned tumble over. Moggy fed Kieran who dummied one and offloaded to Cameron in the centre. Cam stepped 3 or 4 players and went over for a very well taken try. Kieran converted.
Again our defence was spot on and never let Tumble close to our line. We had a scrum 20 metres out. Moggy fed Kieran who again, dummied one and ghosted through the defence to register a good try. Kieran himself converted. The referee then blew for full time.

Final Score: Tumble 0 - South Gower 28

Overall, a good performance. Not like the Dunvant game, but as one of the spectators said, we would be hard pushed to see that every week as they performed so well against Dunvant. However, i was very please with the domination from our forwards constantly turning over ball and winning lineouts and scrums against the head. Also our tackling was very good.

Players to mention :

Tom Jenkins: Tom (under 10's) stepped in on the wing to help us out and was solid. His defence was superb and his running was excellent. A really impressive game from Tom. Man of the match !

Paul Jones: A monster in the pack. Hasn't played for a few weeks but you can tell when he is on the pitch. great mauler, rucker and brings much needed aggression to our forwards. Took his 2 tries superbly. Awesome Paul !

George Grammenos: George won several balls against the head, tackled superbly did his job well. Well done George !

Also, may thanks to George Heard, Dylan John, George Grammenos who played for Tumble at different parts of the game to help them through injuries and with numbers. George Heard had a very good game against us !!!

Training Wednesday please for everyone who can make it. We have Loughor at home Sunday who are strong and have a large squad so there may be a possibility of 2 games. Thanks to all who travelled the long journey to Tumble. Well done boys.