Final score Moseley 15-6 Cambridge, league points 4-0. Mose scorers T Williams, Brown; C Williams; DG Hollingsworth. Cambridge 2 pens.
Very difficult conditions for both sides, with Cambridge being ahead 6-3 at HT. But it was a 10-15 point breeze, and we made better use of it in the second half. If our line out had been more consistent then maybe we'd have stretched the lead more, but a four try bonus was never going to be easy today. And we did nick some of their line outs too.
No idea who won MOM but Lewis Bean was immense today. And the break from which James Williams got his try had us all wondering where it came from.
I'm now at home warming up again. We're back up to 12th in the table, Cinderford just ahead of us. I'm optimistic that we can take them next week. All agreed?
Well folks. For those who stayed at home today they missed a worthy Moseley win in appalling conditions as a wind storm swirled it's way around the pitch. Both teams had the wind both with and against them in each half along with a few drops of rain just to put a damper on things. And to say it was chilly was an understatement - even though lads wore short sleeved shirts.
The Moseley tight eight dominated throughout the game which was, without doubt, the best feature of an otherwise pretty awful performance in the prevailing weather conditions. The least said about the line-out the better because it just was not a line-out day at all as Moseley lost about 5 of their own line-outs on the five yard line. It wasn't as if it was just wind and rain which affected the team performance - it was absolutely perishing as well. Even so I thought the handling was much better than expected in the conditions.
Cambridge did threaten to break through once or twice but the Moseley line held them out confining them to just two penalties, 6 points. Both Moseley tries were well worked, the first one a typical James Williams clean break and a converted try under the posts, the second one support play down the left side with the conversion just drifting across to the nearside post.
The fact that the end of the game could not come quick enough was confirmed when the crowd cheered the final whistle. I think it then took little more than 17 and a half seconds or so for the players to disappear down the tunnel and the supporters to disappear into the club house.
All in all a pretty miserable day at the office but at least Moseley came away with a win. I will accept that, warts 'n all, without complaint and move up the table in the process.
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Well camerashake other than the "shower shot" into the sky and the blustering wind....the quality looked more like an early balmy Spring Friday evening climate! It certainly wasn't !!! Well done to both sets of players. Two good Mose tries too. Quite a few may have missed as they huddled in the Club House. Wonder what % stat for play zones was for each team in the second half? I cannot recall Cambs having too much in our 20 but stand to be corrected. Bean was a dream, forwards were mean!! Difficult to analyse where our line out is going wrong - is it the throw or the jump? I think Cambs had a lot more success even taking conditions into account. Nevermind 3 out of 4 with the chance to extend next Sat. at Cinderford....
Post by notanotherjohn on Dec 16, 2018 17:29:39 GMT
Sorry, I just couldn't face the Billesley breeze yesterday but what a great result! Let's keep moving up that table. I see that we have the most points scored apart from Old Elts at the top, which kind of says where the work is needed?
