Twickenham U14’s Match Summary

 

Twickenham

Staines

v

10 Sep 2006

Friendly

Away

Lost (17 – 22)

 

 

 

An early season friendly against local rivals Staines was always going to be a tough match and when Staines elected to play 4 15min quarters and with their larger squad, this would test the fitness of the Twickenham team.

 

An early well-worked try by Staines shook Twickenham but an excellent run by Rhys Wilson provided an excellent chance for Pritvi which was well taken. Harry Gibbons made the conversion and at the end of the first quarter Twickenham led by 7 points to 5.

 

Twickenham made a couple of early substitutions with a plan to rotate the squad and early in the second quarter Jay Whelan who had just come on, scored in the corner. No further points were scored in the first half and Twickenham led by 12 – 5 going into the second half.

 

Further substitutions were made at half time by both teams, unfortunately the early rhythm had disappeared and in the following 18 minutes Twickenham conceded 17 points and 6 penalties.

 

Twickenham made a valiant effort in the 4th quarter to claw back the points needed but fell short, despite an excellent try by James Stone.

 

There were many positives to be gained from this match, new players fitted in well, players were playing new positions and we had won 3 of the 4 quarters played, only losing the 3rd quarter having made numerous changes at half time. Lawrence and the other coaches were far from disappointed despite losing and have identified a number of areas to be worked on this Wednesday.

 

Gary Davies

 

1

Jamie Davies

16

Harry Shepherd

2

Ed Payne

17

Jay Whelan

3

James Boultbee

18

Ross Cowell

4

Pritvi Ranawat

19

Kenny Charlton

5

Stephen Cowley

20

Chris Wheatley

6

Rhys Wilson

21

Jack Foster

7

Alex Rose

22

Andrew Nettles

8

Joe Griffin

23

 

9

Alex See

24

 

10

Harry Gibbons

25

 

11

Adam Blake

26

 

12

Luke Povey

27

 

13

Billy Henshaw

28

 

14

Ollie Rowan

29

 

15

James Stone

30

 

 

 

 

Twickenham

Staines

Final score:

17

22

Half-time score:

12

5

Tries:

3

4

Penalty Tries:

0

0

Conversions:           (Successful / Attempted)

1 / 3

2 / 4

Penalty Goals:         (Successful / Attempted)

0 / 0

0 / 0

Drop Goals:             (Successful / Attempted)

0 / 0

0 / 0

Penalties Conceded:

13

10