EG Men 1
Matches
Sat 19 Oct 2019  ·  Sussex 1
Hellingly
41
22
EAST GRINSTEAD RFC
EG Men 1
Tries: B Beard, D Arnold, J Andrews, J BusbyConversions: O Adams
On the road again.....

On the road again.....

Stephen Busby21 Oct 2019 - 23:11
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One ‘Hell’ of a wake-up call

We travelled south again to face Hellingly, believing we knew what to expect. Narrow, wet pitch and a team that had beaten us four from four the season before last, when we were in the same league. We anticipated a game dominated by their forward play and we were not wrong. Unfortunately, Hellingly dominated in pretty much every aspect of the game.

We started well with an early try from Ben Beard, within four minutes, but what followed was a thoroughly overpowering display from our hosts.
During the next 50 odd minutes, the score went from 0-5 to 7-5, 12, 17, 24, 29, 36-5.
We then mustered a little resilience and turned some of our possession into points with tries from Dan Arnold, who reacted quickest with a tap penalty, followed by two further tries from Jack Andrews and James Busby, thereby securing the try bonus point. Very modest consolation for what had been a thoroughly second rate performance. We were dominated from minute 4 to minute 62, during which time the game was beyond our grasp.
Needless to say, more detailed feedback has been & will be given to the boys by Matt, so I will finish there.

We are away at Hove 2’s next Saturday expecting a monumental bounce back!

Match details

Match date

Sat 19 Oct 2019

Kickoff

15:00

Meet time

13:30

Instructions

13:30 prompt at Hellingly or 12:30 meet at EG

Competition

Sussex 1

League position

2
East Grinstead
4
Hellingly
Team overview
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