Sussex Rugby - Heathfield & Waldron RFC - Heathfield & Waldron Development XV 60 Uckfield 2nd's 10

	Saturday, January 28, 2006

Heathfield & Waldron Development XV 60 Uckfield 2nd's 10

On a very cold Saturday afternoon the Development XV played against Uckfield 2’s in a local derby at Heathfield.

There was a strong northerly wind coming across the pitch and during warm it was decided to play phased rugby through the scrum and for the backline to take the ball back into the pack to create sufficient space for the wings to run.

Uckfield came with a young and mobile pack and decided to play with the wind in their favour for the first half. From kick off we pressed hard and with excellent defence and rolling mauls created our first try. Uckfield however responded with a well worked move and charged down a kick on our try line to set up their opening try.

The pack then dominated all aspects of forward play with the front row setting the platform for our scrum to not only win our ball but pushing Uckfield back off theirs and creating turn over ball on a regular occasion. Mike Brown, Tom Pritchard and Chris Jones worked well as a unit and continuously crossed the advantage line with pick up and drives and running the ball at Uckfield’s fly half. Tony Rose worked hard in the line outs and caused chaos for Uckfield on their ball by taking it from them.

This allowed the backline to use crash balls back to Uckfield’s fly half and inside centre and with quick ball enabled our mobile back row to run off passes from Shaun Hipgrave.

There was some good positional kicking from Chris English who placed the ball behind Uckfield’s backline and allowed our dominating pack to catch and drive the ball from the lineout. A clever kick from the scrum half Shaun Hipgrave to a vacant left wing position allowed Peter Phillipou who was chasing in attack to time his run to perfection by catching the ball on the bounce and score a well worked try in the corner.

Uckfield used the possession they had to try and crash the ball from their inside centre through the middle however from excellent pressure in defence was tackled on every occasion and often he lost the ball in the tackle which allowed our pack to lay the platform for yet another surge in attack.

There were ten tries scored by Heathfield and even though Uckfield did respond with two of their own they were outclassed and out muscled in an all round performance which has been the best of the season.

As there were ten tries scored I cannot remember who was responsible for all so apologies to those who did and are not mentioned (Too young to be an age thing!!) but congratulations to the whole team

Tries: M. Brown (2), A. Farrell (1), P. Phillipou (1), M. Gardener (1), P. Watton (1), J. Cummings – Yes a 50m run (1)

Conversions: C.English (5)

Team: M. Powderly (Rep – M. Fellows), C. Ambrosino, P. Watton ( Rep – C. Watton), T. Rose (K. Tonkin), J. Cummings, C. Jones, T. Pritchard, M. Brown, S. Hipgrave, C. English, D. Hesketh, A. Farrell, P. Phillipou, M. Gardener (Rep – D. Groom), B. Slay

Report by Duncan Hesketh

Development Team
1/28/2006 3:00:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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