Bedwas 38-37 Moseley

[observer]

Bedwas clinch victory at the death
Sunday, 12 August 2012
Bedwas RFC 38 Moseley RFC 37

Preseason Friendly
Match report by John Meredith, photographs by Ian Lovell

A last minute try sealed a home victory for Bedwas in a competitive preseason friendly.

Both sides made many changes to field different fifteens in both halves as coaches looked at new recruits and combinations.
Full match report: www.bedwasrfc.co.uk/NewsArticle.aspx?n=21985

[studleyken]

Think there may be a few errors in the Bedwas report. Ollie is down as having scored 2 tries when one of them at least was scored by Caolan Ryan (It could be that the 2nd one was as well) and Greg was on the side lines injured when the announcer awarded a try to him. We still gave him a good cheer though, Greg that was not the announcer.

[Richie B]

Bedwas report is all over the place but hardly surprising as so many changes made by both sides. I made it tries for Carter, Mogenson (2), Ryan, Hayter, and Thomas myself.

Entertaining game of 12 tries, Mose the more enterprising side in the first half with the back division looking very threatening. Bedwas took advantage of an injury to Gregg King to work and overlap to take the lead (hope it is not too serious). Mose then assumed control with two well worked tries. There then followed a bit of a stodgy mid period to the game, Mather got a card for some poor discipline and the supply of ball virtually dried up. Bedwas scored three quickfire tries either side of halftime. Mass substitutions at half time seemed to disrupt things quite a bit and we looked a bit defensively naive for while. A few returning players turned the tide a bit and we took an 11 point lead and began to look comfortable. Bedwas scored a converted try from deep and the lead was cut to 4. Bedwas tails were up and they began to press winning a stream of penalties and a card for Waggy. Had they not scored I think we may still be playing now, nuff said.

On the whole a good runout for the whole squad and I reckon a lot to look forward to in the coming season. Back division could be a bit special given enough ball. Main concern as has been said was the lineout which delivered precious little quality possession all day. Plenty of work for the new forwards coach to do there as with the speed of delivery from the ruck.
Promising performances from the Saints DR boys Mogenson and Alex Day who added some running threat from 9. In summary nice day out and exciting times ahead.