Relief All Round
By Blues Brother
September 29 2014
Relief all round at Goldington Road today. A win is tremendous, a win away from home against a close rival is even better and to put the icing on the cake we got a try bonus point right at the end ...
Defeat at Plynouth would have been seriously bad news for Mike Rayer's squad. Instead we came home with a 31-22 victory.
However, the victory gives us every incentive to kick on as the new players setlle in and we build patterns which suit the talent on offer.
Dean Adamson got us off to a great start after we blasted through the home mifdield, and although Albion equalised they lost scrum half Josh Davies to the bin and we capitalised with a catch and drive courtesy of Paul Tupai.
Albion kept themsleves in it with two pens before Adamson scored his second with Pritchard adding the conversion.
Two more penalties brought Albion back, but we camped on their line in the clsoing stages and the pressure eventually opened the way for Pat Tapley to go over.
Jersey are next up at Goldington Road - another five points would be nice.
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Okay they missed a few tackles but the scrum was the best I've seen in about a year and the line out functioned very well even without HW.
The most pleasing aspect though was the game management, with only a couple of minutes to go it still could have gone either way.
The option to keep opting for the scrum on the Plymouth line probably wouldn't have happened last season. Great call which got us the win and the BP.
Very happy journey back, should be a great game against Jersey, can't wait.