Midlands 5 East (North), Sat 4 Nov 2006

Hamians 25 - Keyworth 3

Sunny Autumn days , and the thought of bonfires , alcohol infused coffee , hot dogs and dazzling lights in the darkened sky

fireworks were a plenty at the Point with local rivals keyworth the visitors

5 tries , two yellows , and the hamians tryline intact

the seconds put up a spirited performance against a strong casuals vets ( plus a few who were not )

the clubhouse was full with women children , spectators taking some warming re inforcement against the cold

phil hartleys little girl came to watch her dad play , and slept though the whole match !!!

team news

mike, yorkie , chicago , hartley , epsy , oli c , draps , hobbit , ice , jez ( she let me play again ) jp , cookie , mozza , anvil and puddin ....daintyjnr and the fat prop mage up the bench

oli c kicks off ..not 10 ..here we go again

scrummage drive shunts keyworth back ten yds , 8 pick up and drive on , hamians win back ball , spin wide

clear early on pace and guile will bring points out wide

couple of rucks and drives , oli c kicks for position , winger takes safe option

good line out shuffle , cookie off top , swift hands with miss and fullback releases yorkie to score out wide

5 nil less than 2 mins played

recover kick off and charge up field , ball spun wide , yardgae gained .

keyworth win lineout and kick tactically to mike , he kicks back we think , keyworth charge on ....good defence , chance to spin wide centre cut back in


ball slowed up

chance to go right , mike fails to put eps away by missing him with pass, he didn,t look

scrummage pressure mounting with keyworth struggling to secure good ball ,good handling move from touchline to touchline gives Yorkie second score

10 -nil

keyworth to credit weather storm and hang on whilst hamians over complicate ..keyworth shun penaties in belief lineout will result in tries to no avail . hamians aggressive defence results in flnker losing it and getting yellow card

keyworth down to 14 men

hobbit has one trade mark run galloping 25 yards ...

hamians during this period score again when oli c sythes through defence to give chicago free run who generously passes to eps for score

15 nil half time

second half hamians start stronger , scrummage is dominant , backs do not make best use of ball .

silly penalties allow good field position to be given to visitors

suddenly from broken play , anvil crashes up field like a steel ball bearing on a pinball table , offloads to puddin who gallops onwards, flicks ball back in to draps and jez , ruck out good hands results in phil hartley putting chicago away for classy score

20 nil


give away daft pena;lty at restaRT ,

20 -3

GAME WON


great defence by forward results in visitors running ball under pressur close to hamins line ...nasty leg injury results to keyworth centre from head on tackle

puddin has second run of the game , but ball lost at contact

game meandering till chicago from set move off scrummage breaks 4 tackles to score good solo try

25 -3

dainty replaces jez , who has been a pain all game

last 5 minutes turn a bit farsical with mozza sinbinned for single handedly driving front 5 backwards , accused of over robust play ...the welsh don't understand neither did we ...but survive 3 resulting 5 yard scrummages

five out five in the league and a top of the table clash with high flying Bakewell at adbolton next week

mike asked me to report that hamians fullback had outstanding game giving three scoring passes where he drew the defence under great pressure and physical danger to himself to gift the wingers there tries

training only weds next week 7 prompt start