U15s -Sch year 10
Matches
Sun 13 Jan 2013
Hinckley Rugby Club
U15s -Sch year 10
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Syston
Draw with Syston

Draw with Syston

Lee Buckler14 Jan 2013 - 20:31
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Mixed results against Syston.

The first home game of 2013 started off cold, but the light frost soon burnt off on a bright sunny day. Hinckley were hosting festival rivals Syston RFC, bringing two teams to the Leicester Road ground.
Hinckley as usual fielded two balanced teams, all keen and raring to go for four games of rugby.

Hinckley Lions - Game 1
Syston won the toss, but with coach Barnes’ pep talk ringing in their ears, Hinckley Lions took the game to Syston by straight away shutting them down with some fierce tackling, leaving Syston wondering if they were on the wrong pitch.

In a lesson in team cohesion, there were first half tries from Barnes (2) and Drakeford (1) with great tackling, offloading and support from every player, with a half time score of 15-0. The great work of the first half continued in the second half with tries from Barnes (1), Drakeford (2), Perry (1) and Whittingham, L. (1) with some particular crunching tackles from Duggins, Goodwin and Buckler.

With great spirit and team work, it was great viewing for the home crowd, with hat tricks for Barnes and Drakeford for a final score of 40-5.

Hinckley Lions - Game 2
The second game for the Lions looked like more of challenge with Syston fielding a much stronger team with some big players. Again, Syston won the toss, and with a momentary lapse of concentration from Hinckley, Syston slipped in a quick scoring the first try, but soon Hinckley brought it back to one all with a great try from Goodwin. Syston scored again, but soon to be matched by strong work and a great try by Buckler, resulting in a score of 10-10 at half time.

The overall performance of the first half, left coach Smith in a quandary of who to play, given the fantastic passion that all seven players had shown. Once again, inspirational words from coach Smith fired up the boys, turning the passion dial up to eleven, leading to a second half try tally of five tries, with Barnes (1), Buckler (2) and Drakeford (2) all adding to the score. A narrow miss from Perry just short of line, and ferocious tackling from every player lead all concerned to agree that it had been a highlight match of the season. With a final score of 35-10, including the first hat trick of the year for Buckler.

Overall, a great display of rugby from Hinckley Lions.

A TALE OF TWO TEAMS

Hinckley were first up against the larger of 2 squads from Syston, we got off to a flying start putting 2 very quick tries past a sleepy Syston by a quick side stepping Hurley-Smith and quick running Moore. Burton and Moore showing some excellent team play with a fabulous pass from Moore to a supporting Burton to pop it over the whitewash for the third home try.

With the home team rubbing their hands thinking they were in for an easy morning, Syston stepped up their defence considerably and put a whole load of tries past Hinckley ending the first half level 15 all.
Going into the second half, unfortunately, our tackling went to pot and passing went static with Syston putting another couple of tries on us. Morrissey not giving up went the length of the pitch to score her first of the day showing superb persistence and then Salisbury weaving his way and scorching up the pitch for our fifth try, Syston immediately answered back with a try of their own and finished winning 25-30 despite some determined efforts from the home side.

A dejected team plodded their way over to the other pitch to face the smaller team but with non existent tackling, 364 knock ons and waving the other team through to the try line, the first half finished 0-20 to the opposition. A blurry eyed Hurley-Smith, Salisbury and Burton all trying their best with Burton putting in a flying tackle in the corner and going off injured. Syston put another 2 unanswered tries on us in the second half taking the score to 0-30. Finally a bit of spirit showed by Salisbury saw him taking a consolation try in the dying minutes to finish 5-30.

Match details

Match date

Sun 13 Jan 2013

Kickoff

10:00
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