The Junior section of Heathfield & Waldron Rugby Club have just returned from their 2006 tour to Paris and as well as enjoying some good rugby and comeradery, enjoyed 2 good afternoons at Disneyland.

 

The under 14 squad faired the best out of the 4 age groups who toured winning their group final 10-0 against The Perth Rugby Academy, The under 14's focused well and squeezed their opposition into submission.

 

On their way to the final they overcome strong teams but scored some classy tries from Matt Halls, Dayle Hollands, Nic Evans, Robert Horsfall Turner and Alex Scott. Some great team play too followed with some good running by Ben O'Connell and Josh Eaton with Pudsie Pring and Ben Davis doing the hard graft upfront. 

 

In between games, the boys enjoyed squad training sessions with 3 British Lions consisting of Robert Jones the ex Wales Scrum half and current Lions, Brent Cockbain and No.8 Ryan Jones.

 

But it was the Final match where the under 14's really knuckled down and played possibly their best rugby of the season. The forwards looked after the possession well with superb driving play particularly by Tom Keylock, Larry Platt, Ben Darcy, Halls and Hollands. The backs handling was good too with centres Imran Iqbal and Campbell Lacey combining well to give their wingers Peter Phair and Nic Evans good Ball. The tackling too was superb with Greg Salmon, Jake Tyler, Halls, Iqbal, Hollands and Lacey shining.  The scrums were rock solid as ever, with Oliver Hancock and Tom Shrek ensuring the stable platform.

 

With Heathfield on the attack from the off, the Perth Side defended well for 15 minutes with last ditch tackles going in everywhere. But the opening score was one of the best and a team try with a bit of solo brilliance thrown in.  From a Perth Scrum on their 20 metre line, Keylock hooked one against the head, Scrum half Will "pink hair" Chipchase passed to Jeremy Burdett. The ball went through the centres to wing Phair who was tackled. He managed to pop the pass back in side to Lacey who went to ground well setting up the ruck. Iqbal bridged and protected the ball for Salmon who spun back to Burdett. He dummied to Hancock then spun the ball to Hollands in midfield. His pass found wing Evans in loads of space. The brilliance then appeared. He went outside the first defender, inside the next, outside the next then accellerated inside the last one before touching down. A truly memorable try.

 

Half time came and Heathfield were not clear yet. Injuries started occuring and Heathfield lost their two flankers Hollands with a broken collar bone and Salmon who did one big tackle too many and injured himself.Chipchase injured his ankle and had to be carried off but was ably replaced by Elliott Marshall who also had a great game. The side juggled around with Alex Hope coming on at Hooker and Horsfall Turner in the Second Row. Thomas Pring came on at Prop and Jake Tyler on the wing.

 

The second try came once again from good team work. The ball was recycled way out on the right. Evans cut infield and fed Iqbal who fed Lacey and onto Phair whose run was cut short 5 metres from the Perth Line on the left. From the ensuing Perth Lineout, Ollie Hancock snatched the low throw and charged like an out of control bulldozer towards the line and scored to wrap the game up. Heathfield atet up the final minutes with brilliant driving play from Matt Halls who was one of the many "Players of the Tour"