Twickenham U14’s Match Summary
Twickenham Farnham	v	17 Sep 2006	Friendly
		Drawn	Won (7 – 7)

“Following a jolly red-eye drive down to Cranleigh Rugby Club for a triangular competition versus Cranleigh RFC and Farnham RFC on Sunday morning Twickenham U14s kicked off early in lovely autumn sunshine against what appeared to be an under strength Cranleigh side who need two of our boys to make up a 15.

 Although the game started off fairly evenly Twickenham soon started to impose themselves on the game and our first try was scored by Ross Cowell finishing off a flowing move by the backs. Unfortunately Harry Gibbons narrowly missed the conversion. Shortly afterwards Sam Yamuah was released by an excellent pass from James Stone and after breaking through a number of tackles Sam scored an excellent try in the corner. Harry duly converted and although Twickenham continued to exert pressure no further points were added. This was partly due to the referee blowing for time 5 minutes early. Special mention should be made for Jack Foster and Andrew Nettles who played for the opposition due to Cranleigh’s lack of numbers.

 The second game against Farnham was a much tighter affair. Twickenham started off on the back foot and after some exerted Farnham pressure they crossed for a converted try following some weak Twickenham tackling. However this seemed to kick the boys into action, particularly the forwards who dominated set plays, in particular scrums where almost all against the head were won. After 10 minutes Twickenham equalised with an excellent Sam Yamuah try which was fabulously converted by Harry from right out on the left hand touchline. Nip and tuck followed without either side able to break the deadlock. The Twickenham forwards continued to dominate and would surely have capitalised with further points had the referee not blown up after just 19 minutes.

 Edward Payne then guested for Cranleigh against Farnham and put in a sterling performance.

 The coaches were particularly pleased with the performance of the forwards who appear to have responded to some specialist coaching during the past couple of weeks. More work needs to be done in the backs, however they did show some evidence of the “draw and pass” being heavily coached at the moment. The author was particularly impressed with Rhys and Pritvi for the forwards, and James Stone and Alex See in the backs however all the boys took their opportunities to impress the coaches as the build up to the first league game against Fullerians in two weeks gets ever closer.

 So an hours drive down to Cranleigh for 39 minutes of rugby. Luckily the staff behind the club bar were very accommodating, as were the opposition coaches, and a very pleasant pre-lunchtime lemonade was had by many.

 Special thanks to everybody at Cranleigh who made us all very welcome.

 The author would also like to make special mention of Gary Povey (Luke’s dad) who refereed the Cranleigh vs Farnham game so competently despite heckling from a small but boisterous section of the crowd and the touch judge in the Orkney RFC shirt who made some excellent decisions and really seemed to know his stuff.

Lee Payne

Deputy Head Coach

1	Jamie Davies	16	Harry Shepherd
2	Ed Payne	17	Alex Rose
3	James Boultbee	18	Ross Cowell
4	Pritvi Ranawat	19	Nick Aston
5	Stephen Cowley	20	Ollie Rowan
6	Rhys Wilson	21	Jack Foster
7	Jay Whelan	22	Andrew Nettles
8	Joe Griffin	23	Chris Wheatley
9	Alex See	24	Adam Blake
10	Harry Gibbons	25
11	Sam Kitch	26
12	Luke Povey	27
13	Billy Hanshaw	28
14	Sam Yamuah	29
15	James Stone	30

	Twickenham	Farnham
Final score:	7	7
Half-time score:	n/a	n/a
Tries:	1	1
Penalty Tries:	0	0
Conversions: (Successful / Attempted)	1 / 1	1 / 1
Penalty Goals: (Successful / Attempted)	0 / 0	0 / 0
Drop Goals: (Successful / Attempted)	0 / 0	0 / 0
Penalties Conceded: