Sussex Rugby - Heathfield & Waldron RFC - Edenbridge Colts 12

	Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Edenbridge Colts 12 - Heathfield & Waldron Colts 49

A squad of 18 Heathfield Colts (a few players short due to Sussex commitments and injury) arrived in Edenbridge fresh from Ross Riley's 18th birthday bash and a couple of other nights out and were looking surprisingly focused.

Dave "Stumpy" Robertshaw gave the team the benefit of his experience in his pre match talk and despite his best efforts Heathfield started like a team that knew what they were doing.

From the off the forwards took the initiative driving the ball forward setting it up and moving onto the next phases. An early lineout on the Edenbridge "22" gave the chance to use the"magic" call. This led to a charge down the line with Dom Hodge touching down. Sam "training? Whats training?" Goacher followed this with the kick of the match, converting from 6m in.

From the restart Heathfield ran straight back at a stunned Edenbridge side with the ball being moved down the back line of Joseph "the hit man" Salmon, Sam, Ross Riley and out to Anthony "Ant" Hicks who ran storming down the line before running out of space and being tackled. This appeared to spark Edenbridge into action and they launched a move that sent their Winger though into space only for Baz "the mop" Hunt to make the first of several amazing last ditch tackles.

From lineout on the Heathfield left side the ball was won by Ollie Robertshaw's dominant jumping for the backs to run it out to Ross who made his break through to touch down.

Heathfield started to control the game winning their own scrums with the prop pairing of Tom "the Chairman" Flory and Husein "Moose" Nikouei holding firm. Any ball that Edenbridge won was soon disrupted by Lee "Gobby" Keylock who had a masterful game at Scrum Half. His sniping runs and aggressive tackling gave Edenbridge nothing but trouble. It was from one of these scrums that Heathfield won the ball, Joseph kicked the ball to the Edenbridge 22. Anthony chased, putting the Full Back under pressure, with the other backs following up. With the pretty boys doing the hard work and chasing it was time for the fat boys to stand out and pose. The ball was moved to the left passing through several sets of hands for captain Sean "Rocky" Dorrill to score under the posts. Sam followed up with a conversion.

Then came Sean's second try. The ball was won in the Heathfield 10m line, the physical presence of "Big" Danny Bazen and Josh "Tall Man" Henry was too much for Edenbridge. Ollie embarked on one of his many powerful runs, the ball was slipped to Joseph who when stopped moved the ball to Sean, 24 - 0.
Another lineout on the Heathfield gave Ollie the chance to charge forward and move the ball to Julius "Bad Hair Day" Makewicz who, only just having come on, ran in to score with almost his first touch.

The first half was rounded off with the forwards mauling and driving in spectacular fashion for Ollie to finish off.

Half Time 0 - 34

A stirring speech, as moving as Napoleon's farewell to the troops at Fontainebleau, from James "the Quin" Tibbles galvanised a confident Heathfield as they returned to the skirmish. Dan "Dickie" Bird was now on as Hooker and immediately made his presence felt doing fantastic work in the rucks and carrying the ball to great effect. Twice Jake "twinkle toes" Donnebaer, now on at prop took the ball and danced his way passed 2, 3, or 4 tackles like a fly half before passing to his support.

Edenbridge had started the half with more purpose and were starting to play in the Heathfield half and it was from here that James "the flier" Baurer ran all 60m from his own half to be stopped 3m short of the line. This started a series of moves from the Heathfield backs resulting in Sam running a sublime angle to slice through the Edenbridge defence and score. This then gave Sam the chance to show off the art of taking a conversion whilst sitting on his ar**.
A series of good phases with hard yards being made by Tom, Julius, Josh and Phil "Goosey" Gander being an ever present nuisance led to another backs move with Joseph finishing in the corner. This lead to the one moment of unpleasantness with several of the Heathfield supporters doing their best to put off Joseph from a conversion that he narrowly missed.

For a 5 minute spell in the last quarter Heathfield let their guard down and Edenbridge ran in 2 good tries and only the brilliant tackling of Baz held them from pulling back.

Final Score 12 - 49.

Next week Heathfield Colts will be playing at home where they will entertain Hove.

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