Match Report Burnham On Crouch 5th November 2006

Burnham On Crouch 5 v Brentwood 37
Sunday 5th November 2006


Brentwood got kick off. From the start the ball had equal possession and went from one team to another. After a few minutes into the game Jamie Cowie made a brave run and dodged a few of the opponents but didn’t have enough support to run all the way. A ruck was formed which lead to Ivan getting the ball, he also made an attempt but he had too many players against him so he saw the opportunity to offload to Bobby who the went forth to score the first try of the game after several attempts himself. The conversion was missed.
After the ball was given to them and back to us a couple of times Jamie Cowie took a chance and intercepted the ball. He saved the ball for us and gave it to Andy who did a long upfield run towards the posts. He really made a great attempt, luckily Bobby was once again in the right place to once again score a try! We also got the conversion.
Just a few minutes after the second try of the game Jamie scored a try right under the posts, he made a really good run not to get tackled and stopped.

After the third try we lost the ball a few times and they gained a try although Matthew did make a attempt to move the ball up field by kicking it but this resulted into us missing it and their first try.

Half Time

Burnham kicked off. There were several rucks for both teams to attempt to get the ball but when they tackled someone it seemed that they were more interested in tackling to opposition that actually getting the ball as it was just left laying there. After a few minutes of continues rucks Bobby got hold of the ball and ran towards the posts but for the first time I have seen he was spung around, which is usually what you see happen to the smaller players! As Burnham kicked the ball it bounced off the ground and Adriaan caught it and made pushed towards the try line but Harry had to step in and help out and successfully scored a really good try The conversion was missed.

Harry once again got hold off the ball and ran up the side of the field trying to escape the defending of Burnham who didn’t do that bad considering they were down with quite a few players. Unfortunately they caught up with him so he gave the ball briskly to Bobby who scored yet again another try for us! Andy got the first conversion of the game by us.
Harry was really determined to score again and due to this there was another ruck formed reasonably close to our posts luckily Tom came off the ruck and scored another fantastic try for Brentwood. It was near the end of the game and both teams were fighting hard to get the last try off the game, and thanks to Jamie Insole we did. The conversion was missed again.