Sussex Rugby - Heathfield & Waldron RFC - Heathfield & Waldron Development XV 0 Haywards Heath 3rd's 15

	Saturday, March 04, 2006

Heathfield & Waldron Development XV 0 Haywards Heath 3rd's 15

Saturday saw Heathfield’s development team face top of the table Haywards Heath. The last encounter was not a pleasant experience when Heathfield played at Haywards Heath, and again Haywards Heath 2^nd team where not playing and the odd ringer was drafted in.

Saying that Heathfield had a good warm up and spirits where high, straight from the start both the pack and the backs knew they where in for a tough long match. Tackling was excellent from all the players and the pack drove the scrum, this proved a lifting point for the team and everyone rose their game. Hard, strong tackles followed and midway through the 1^st half Heathfield where matching Haywards Heath in all departments.

This rattled the young Haywards Heath side and they continued to drop the ball in there backs and along with a very tight defence by Heathfield the half time score remained at 0-0

The 2^nd half started off with a bang, Heathfield broke into the Haywards Heath half and from a set play passed the ball down the line in style and looked like a certain try only to drop the ball inside the Haywards Heath 22.

This did not deter the pack to continue to dominate the scrum, rucks and mauls, the only area we failed to control was the line out which Haywards Heath kept kicking the ball out as they knew they where dominating. Again Haywards Heath won a line out on the halfway line only to drop the ball by there centres which Heathfield where first to the loose ball, great play by Paul Flood and Mike Brown in securing the ball and setting up the backs for another counter attack into the Haywards Heath half. The ball passed down the line to Peter Philippou who stepped inside and off loaded to Adam Farrell who managed to bounce off 3 of there players into their 22, yet again the forward where there but a knock on meant Haywards Heath managed to clear for another line out.

With 20 minutes to the Heathfield team where slowly getting tired and this is when Haywards Heath managed to break a solid defence for the 1^st time and score there 1^st of 2 tries in the corner of the pitch. Shortly after the kick off out pack was penalised and Haywards Heath converted a penalty in front of the posts, making the score 10-0

With a couple of minutes to go and yet another line out lost on our 5 meter line Haywards Heath managed a push over try and the score ended 15-0 to Haywards Heath.

Man of the match – very hard to call as everyone put in 110% but a special thank-you to the pack who dominated most of the game.

Team: Powderly, Ambrosino, Fellows, Everett, Hunter-Evans, Brown [Schlieder], Bryant, Flood, Drinkwater, English, Woods, Hesketh (Capt.), Philippou [C Jones], Groom [Gardiner], Farrell.

Report by: Adam Farrell

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3/4/2006 6:39:25 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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