Old Wheatleyans 39 – 25 Trinity Guild
Stade Wheats came into this game on the back of a strong start to this seasons campaign and with the Parc De Wheats packed to the rafters with a partisan crowd, Trinity Guild came into the game understandably nervous.
However, The Guild silenced the baying crowd and settled their nerves straight from the kick off after McShane was adjudged to have been in front of the kicker after taking the kick off ball and recycling it to The Beast to clear the lines to touch. The Guild 9 promptly potted over the penalty to make it 3-0.
The lead didn’t last long for The Guild though, within 5 minutes the Wheats had ‘rampaged’ their way into the oppositions 22 and with good clean ball, released the backs with Atkins-Goldstein releasing Browny to run into the corner from 10 metres out. The Beast felt it best to miss the conversion.
Matt Brown was to further add to his personal tally only a few minutes later with an almost exact replica of his first try with quick hands through the backs putting The Brown into the same corner despite the attentions of his opposite man.
This time The Beast felt it best to bag the 2 extra points from out wide.
This set The Wheats up in a strong position, however The Guild were more than competitive at the set pieces and created problems for The Wheats pack in this department. The Wheats back-row were showing signs of being up for this game though with big hits and direct running coming from Hands, Weaver and Hodgkiss.
Stade Wheats 3rd try was a doth of the cap to improvisation and cavalier rugby, epitomised through The Beast running the ball back from his own 22. In broken field, he impishly chipped the ball over the head of the defender, recovered the ball before it bounced only to no-look pass to the supporting Charlie Hands on the outside who showcased his own form of razzle dazzle by smashing through a tackle on his way to finishing from the half way.The Beast banged over for the 2. Delicious.
However, The Guild had the final word in the first half, with pressure in the Stade Wheats’ half, and from structured play off their 10, eventually Wheats backs were sucked into the ruck after some good phases creating a hole in the line for the 12 to smash through from just inside the 22.
Once again, the reliable 9 dinked over the conversion from the right hand side.
Half time Stade Wheats 19 – 10 Trinity Guild
The second half kicked off with The Wheats going down the dreaded slope towards bomb-scare corner (so called because AB was standing there). However the half didn’t start as The Wheats had planned with Guild registering the first score of the half with an unconverted try.
This woke up the Wheats tiger-ish spirit with them coming immediately back at The Guild with some good pressure and spending some quality time in their half. However The Guild set-piece continued to dig them out of trouble and allow them to clear or disrupt ball sufficiently.
However Hands was the next man over the line receiving short ball outside the 22 off slow ball. He managed to ‘negotiate’ his way through 3 tackles before celebrating under the sticks where The Beast continued the party by caressing the ball over for the additional 2.
Minutes later The Adonis was to be found using colourful language when having his looks man-handled after turning over ball at rucktime. His potty mouthed outburst at the offending player meant the ref had to stop the game and bin the Wheats hooker for fear of people’s ears being offended on and off the pitch. To be fair to the ref, he did state that RFU regulations do not allow for such discourse on the field. So to the rage cage for The Wet One.
The Wheats were once again on the score sheet from some more solid back play. A free flowing run from right to left saw Atkins and Brown faced with a 2 on 2 situation. Atkins did the obvious…chipping over the heads of the defence to allow Browny to recover on the full, round the full back and go in for his hat-trick.
Moments later, once again at ruck time, things were getting punchy…literally! With strong rucking from both sides, The Guild took exception and lashed out at one of The Wheats players. Once again, the ref stopped the game to have a word with the 9. However due to nothing in the RFU law book around punching or striking an opposition player, it was deemed appropriate to give the 9 a good talking too and a slap on the wrists. The Wheats feel that something should be done about this…perhaps striking being a red card offence and 2 week ban for the loose fisted player…?
The Guild were to register another try. It seemed to be the day of the chip, as the 15 joined in at the scrum half position in a ruck wide in the Wheats half. Some good vision from him resulted in a chip over the blindside defence and re-gathered to trot in for a score under the posts.
Anyway, with the game restarted, Wheats were to run in one more try, with Dean Bryant hassling the Guild 9 into a pass which was dropped by the 10. Bryant fly hacked downfield, with The Beast in support. Much like the story about the hare and the tortoise this race began between half back partners, however there was no happy ending for our tortoise as the hare pushed him to the floor and sprinted off to dot down for 5. In your face tortoise!
The Wheats came away from this game with a credible victory in a fixture that could have quite easily been lost. Some strong performances from across the pitch with the forwards adapting well to a strong pack and it was good to see the backs running at the opposition with pace and purpose and showing why they’re one of the most feared units at this level.
MOTM – Matt Brown – Scored a good hat-trick of tries and looked to go on the outside for 2 of them. But he was also busy around the park and stayed strong when brought in on the crash. BOSH!
DOTD – Difficult to choose from, however just for his loss of pace and refusal to do the match report, Dean Bryant. End of!
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