Ospreys ID Festival - Bridgend - 11/04/10

11th April 2010

At Bridgend, we had 17 players for 4 games at 10 minutes a half. Every player was guaranteed at least 2 games.

1st game:

South Gower 1 - Ystragynlais 1

Try: Tom Mogridge

We seem to have a problem lately with switching on at the start of games. This game was poor. With so many handling errors and basic errors we made a meal of this game. We went a try down through atrocious tackling but luckily, Tom Mogridge went blind off a scrum to score one back. We were camped on the opposition line for the last few minutes but our lack of basic skills cost us as the game finished 1-1.

2nd game:

South Gower 3 - Maesteg Welsh 2

Tries: Tom Mogridge, Paul Jones, Ethan Smith

We performed better in this game with a change of 8 personnel. It was a tight match with Moggy scoring first after one of his trademark "i am slippery as a fish" runs to score a good try.
Paul was next to score with a powerful run to make the score 2-2 with minutes left. Finally, after good work by the forwards, the ball went blind from the breakdown and Ethan Smith threw a great sidestep to score the winner in the corner. A much improved performance.

3rd game:

South Gower 3 - Loughor 0

Tries: Ethan Smith, Cameron Barker, Callum Carson.

We performed much better this game and didn't give the opposition a look in all game. Ethan opened the scoring with a great run through the middle of the opposing defence. Next was a great try as we hit up the middle setting up good ruck ball before the ball went through the hands blind to release Cameron Barker to score. Callum Carson rounded off the scoring with a great effort spinning out of tackles and registering another good try.

4th game:

South gower 2 - Porthcawl 0

Tries: Michael Jones, Kieran Charles.

Another great performance as we finished the festival strong. Michael Jones scored a wonderful individual try weaving in and out of everyone to score brilliantly in the corner. Next up saw Callum Carson make the midfield break but as he was tackled he offloaded superbly to Kieran Charles who was motoring through to score a great try. Our discipline was superb in this game as we must have had 15 plus penalties in our favour but we produced good rugby in attack and defence.