Fabulous footage and a blinding try, I also think young Oli Robinson showed maturity beyond his age after the high tackle yellow card, have a look, he is right in the thick of things making sure nothing erupts from it, well done....
absolutely fantastic....i was there but its great to see this over and over again. That last try just gets better....i love Charlie`s little check on his run just before he recieves from Glyn....Perfect!
Interesting blog on BBC Sport website about greatest sporting comebacks following this weekend's fantastic fightback in the Ryder Cup. Looked in vain for Bristol vs. Moseley!
Super, super try and have watched it many times already. I hope the team do - watch and repeat it - again and again and build up greater belief and confidence in themselves. The way that it was reported in t' mail as having started at the Moseley line led me to think it started from a received catch and run but in fact it started from the base of a scrum, which is even more satisfying. What is more impressive though to me is that the scenario would suggest an attacking scrum resulting from a Bristol knock on and not a defensive scrum resulting from a Moseley knocked on. I say suggest because the footage does not show the Moseley scrum half putting the ball in. And there again it could have been a Bristol scrum that Moseley pinched against the head. Now wouldn't that have added to the excitement.
Whilst it was wonderful to see again and again in all it's flowing glory to me it was a culmination of decisive points at various stages that wrote success on the entire move from "concept" to "try". Allow me to elucidate.
First:- The decision to run the ball and not kick for touch. As I said in my last note here - attack is the best form of defence - and this sweeping movement culminating in a try was a precise example of attack to defend. Well done lads.
Second:- The decision to continue to run the ball. It would have been understandable if at some early point the fear of failure - the desire to play safe - undermined the decision to run, but they stuck to the plan. Well done lads.
Third;- The decision by the right winger - I don't know who it was - to cut inside kept the movement alive. Well done lad.
Fourth, and here, I feel is the second most crucial element of the try, after the bold decision to run in the first place. SUPPORT. There were two or three players - at least Hughes and Hayter who were on support midfield who took the pass off the winger and kept the movement going. Well done lads.
Fifth:- The individual and team skill, confidence, coolness and unselfishness in the final stages to draw defenders create further openings and score the try. Well done lads.
And let us not overlook the wonderful exhibition of ball retention because - not too often seen - not once did the ball even look like it was going to be fumbled or dropped. Well done lads.
I only have one other observation - and it is a personal observation, entirely impartial and not at all critical - but, from the Bristol camera angle the pass to the winger - early in the move - may have bordered on forward. None-the-less, in the eyes of the referee and/or the linesmen it wasn't so the try stands. Well done Moseley. Well done.
If only it could had been the try to clinch a try bonus, but it wasn't. It wasn't even the try that clinched the game to be fair. But it was the try which lifted visibly lifted the whole team. Now that would have been something very special and would have really put the icing on the cake. All the same it was a glorious, glorious Moseley try and an even more welcoming Moseley win away from home. Good luck to you all. Good luck to the team and thank you all.
