On a lovely sunny day the Boars enjoyed a rare outing on the main pitch at Cross-in-Hand but struggled to play flowing rugby. The first half started well with early scores from Simon Hollingdale and Rob Woods but descended into a catalogue of unforced errors by the Boars and Crowborough came back into the game with stand off Ed Radford pulling the strings. A converted try by Crowborough took the score to 10-7 and the game was in the balance before a try from Sam Barrow, converted by Dave Rhodes put the Boars in 17-7 up at half time.

Will he or wont he? Just because it looks like he is going to pass it doesnt mean he will...

The Boars made several changes at half time and that seemed to wake them up. The forwards began to be more direct in their running and began to break the line before offloading. The backs responded by catching passes that were previously going to ground. This led to a flurry of unanswered tries with Woods adding two more for his hat trick and single scores for Andy Foster, Brady Burdett and Mike Barber. The score probably flattered the Boars but the points were put in the bag none the less.

Schleider takes the ball at a line out...

Man of the Match was number 8 Sam Barrow with Julian Wates pushing him very close. A special mention must go to Keith Davies who was lent to the Crowborough side for this match and put in an abrasive and gutsy performance including a ‘cooling off’ period in the sin bin.

Boars Team – M. MacLeod, J. La Roche (J. Sharp), J. Geesin (A. Sutton), J. Parsons (S. Walker), T. Rose (B. Groves), A. Farrell (I. Schleider), K. Lewis (D. Bird), S. Barrow, D. Rhodes, B. Burdett, J. Wates, D. Hesketh, S. Hollingdale, A. Foster, R. Woods (M. Barber)

Match report by Mike MacLeod

2/9/2008 9:43:49 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)