Good chance to see a Moseley win at Franklins Gardens and possibly DR players we haven't seen who may play for us this season. They are going to have to be good though to oust players from the squad that played at Bedwas and against Aberavon. Lets get behind the lads. Come on you Mooooose.
15 Noah CATO 14 Tom COLLINS 13 Tom MAY 12 James WILSON 11 Scott ARMSTRONG 10 Stephen MYLER 9 Martin ROBERTS 1 Alex WALLER 2 Mike HAYWOOD 3 Tom MERCEY 4 Alex WOOLFORD 5 Tom HICKS 6 Rhys OAKLEY 7 Ben NUTLEY 8 Mark HOPLEY
Replacements Ross MCMILLAN, Danny HOBBS, Danny HERRIOTT, Jamie WARR, Darrell DYER, Jack ALLCOCK, Ryan GLYNN, Will HOOLEY, Luther BURRELL, Tom STEPHENSON, Alex WOOTTON
A few names I recognise that have been in red and black before- Ryan Glynn, Ross McMillan. A few of the others sound familiar as well......have we seen any others at Billesley playing against us?
Very enjoyable game, I think it finished 35-22 or thereabouts. Strong young Saints players dumped on their backsides on numerous occasions. Forwards did a top job but were let down in the backs a few times - one such time winning a scrum against the head for the backs to drop it and end up conceding a try. Pons was the man of the match for me and played a Pennycookesque match!
Strange how differently people see it. Saints had the ball for 70% of the time and I thought the defence against their backline awesome. Ben Pons did have a very good game but concedes a lot of penalties (carded in first few minutes which proved costly. Scrum got a bit of dominance once Saints had replaced front line props with Academy. We created a couple of excellent scores by Shaggy and Olie I think. Back div could do with Kingy back though. All in all well done to the lads who put in a good showing. Bit concerned about the lack of possession but we were playing a strong side away from home!
All round good committed display. Many positives to be taken from the match and I don’t think any player had a poor game. Pons was excellent, was everywhere, and good to see some of Mason’s ‘commitment’ has rubbed off on him. He was yellow carded very early on which I thought was harsh. Front row did well in the scrums. Sam Browns speedy distribution caused them problems when he came on.
Good match, and a good pre-season and optimism for the new season ahead.
Another commited performance by the team, full 79mins played at max. effort. Silly mistakes led to some of N'hants scores and a few kicks missed again. Line out still not functioning at it's best but there was nothing in the game that needed much working on. Bring on Bedford. I think they may be surprised. Come on yiou Mooooose.
Saints did have more of the ball, but I was more impressed by what we did when we had it. There was a lot of slick handling among the backs, who were prepared to try more breaks through the middle, and then had support when brought down. Attacks of dropsy will be cured by practice, and in fairness Saints had plenty of those too.
The pack is looking pretty impressive, and drove Saints off their own ball more than once, plus we got turnover ball from the rucks in promising positions. Lineout still needs settling down, some overthrown ball gifted to Saints.
Overall, we kept Saints honest, even if it wasn't the full Prem XV, and gained praise from their fans, who were gracious in victory and not over-cocky.
