Sussex Rugby - Heathfield & Waldron RFC - Heathfield & Waldron U16's 17 Crowborough U17's 0

	Sunday, February 05, 2006

Heathfield & Waldron U16's 17 Crowborough U17's 0

Sunday saw Heathfield U16s looking for their first win of a difficult season. Still to find the most effective line up Heathfield played with a reshuffled Back Row and a new role for the ever-svelte "Dainty" Dom Hodge at Inside Centre.

The first 5 minutes were anxious ones for Heathfield as Crowborough immediately putting them under pressure from the boot of their Fly Half. Baz Hunt found himself fielding a long kick from near his own line. He fielded the ball made 5 metres where Crowborough gave away a penalty, Joseph Salmon put into touch just outside his 22.

The next 10 minutes were still played mainly in Heathfield’s half but as the game moved on they started to believe in themselves and with aggressive running from Sean Dorrill, Ollie Robertshaw, and Otto Tibbles all 3 leading from the front. Heathfield forced the game into the Crowborough half giving Sean the chance to run in from 15 metres brushing of the attention of 4 or 5 players and score. The ball bounced off the posts from the conversion.

From the restart Heathfield attacked again with impressive driving mauls from the whole pack but with no real profit. The rest of the half was played in a crotchety fashion with the both sides niggling at each other. Anthony Hicks came on at Scrum Half to continue hounding Crowborough's opposite number. Crowborough continued to give Heathfield problems but some great tackling by Josh Jackson kept them at bay.

After a strong half time talk Heathfield started playing with more direction. With Dom Hodge taking some flat ball on the charge they were making ground on every attack. Jake Donebar coming on at wing caught a speculative kick from the Crowborough Fly Half and punted the ball straight back giving Jack Layfield the chance to chase and disrupt. Heathfield kept up the pressure and moved the ball wide to the left giving Jake the chance to run in for his first try of the season, Joseph slotting the conversion.

Crowborough had to face more of the same pressure and after another 5 minutes of good possession and some fine running from James Baurer. Good possession was rewarded with Ollie Robertshaw was put through to score the third try with the conversion wide.

The last 5 minutes were played almost entirely in the Heathfield half with Crowborough determined to get on the score sheet. Big tackles were put in from Dave Radford and Lee Keylock with the Heathfield pack working hard for the ball for Joseph to kick clear giving the forwards chance to show their dominance in the lineout.

The final whistle blew as tempers frayed with the tension showing from both sides and Heathfield ran off winners 17 - 0.

The Heathfield Man Of The Match was Lee Keylock who put pressured the Crowborough Scrum Half relentlessly and tackled well above his weight and gave great service to the backs.

Tom "The Chairman" Flory, Joseph "The Hitman" Salmon, Dan "Mr Bling" Bird, "Dainty" Dom Hodge, Hussein "The Terminator" Nikoui, Josh "The Tackle" Jackson, Jonathon "Clarkie" Clark, Jake "Shouldn't This Ball Be Round?" Donnebar, Josh "The Giant" Henry, James "The Speedster" Baurer, Ollie "That's Not My Dad Baiting The Ref" Robertshaw, Otto "Mine Neither" Tibbles, Tom "Thumb" Rickman, Sean "The Machine" Dorrill, Baz "The Mop" Hunt, Lee "The Mouth" Keylock, Dave "Radders" Radford, Anthony "Mr Versatile" Hicks, Jack "The Beanstalk" Layfield

Report by Chris Salmon

U16's
2/5/2006 5:27:37 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Senior Team News & Info

Youth Team News & Info

Newsletter Sign Up