Today was going to be far from pretty, with the conditions and a heavy pitch under foot, but Judes played an awesome game first half, showing patience and building pressure. Judes got on a roll and produced 3 great tries firstly on the right wing with a great run from Nathan and pass to McKenzie Davies to scoot over in the corner, he said he was going to score today and he did! Our 2nd try came on the next set and was lovely hands down the line to create the overlap for Logan Johnson to dive in the opposite corner. Our third of the half came from a well timed jink in the line from Regan Sumner who looked covered heading for the corner, but somehow turned himself out of the tackle and plonked the ball down. Judes were relentless in this half and Miners struggled to control our attack, as we almost scored a forth on the wing, only for defenders to force us over the side-line. Strong defence from Judes finishes off the first half by forcing the knock-on, as the Referee blows his whistle for half time.
Not sure what happened to Judes or whether playing up hill second half disrupted us, but Judes looked a different side to the first and Leigh came out bullish. They were soon over the whitewash after a high kick that took a wicked ricochet off our full back and bounced into touch for a Miners scrum close to our line, which gave them the territory to put a move on from the base of the scrum, scoring in the corner and kicking a great conversion from touch. This second half was going to be nail-biting, as although we’d scored 3 times, there was only 6 points in it. A few mistakes by Judes fuels Miners attack, but equally great defence denies them any more points, which was valuable considering we couldn’t get over that try-line either. A great deep kick from Callum, who kicked us out of trouble a few times today, asked Miners to come at us. All those great metres though were given away from an offside call and marched Leigh up the pitch. Resolute defence though again from Judes and Miners are forced to kick on the last, which bobbled about in the in-goal and had to be booted out by Judes, as we all held our breath! Thankfully, there wasn’t enough time for the drop out as the Referee blew to bring the game to a close, with a great 6-12 win to Judes.
Another great victory for our boys today and a fantastic first half with excellent completion. We let our levels drop second half, but was only to be expected in those conditions. Happy to walk away with the points today and get showered!! Well played lads!
Today’s Man of the match chosen by Leigh Miners, went to Reagan Sumner, who had to cover the fullback roll today. Had a solid performance at the back and got himself a try to, loves nothing more than scoring a try our Reggie. |
