Midlands 5 East (North), Sat 14 Oct 2006

Hamians 50 - Worksop 0

sunny October afternoon at Adbolton , slight crosswind , a dew still on the grass....

Visitors Worksop brought their usual big pack game , intending to repeat their double cup tie wins of last season over hamians ...

50 points to nil , stated the intent of this hamians side , to all future visitors to Adbolton

Selection once again resulted in a varied line up of :- pikey , yorkie , chicago , olly crick , epsy , lamin , draps , pud , anvill , mozza, jp, dave, jez, ice and hobbit ...bench was jon g , fat prop , dainty jnr and gollum

they kicked off ...period of sizeing each other up...lamin targeted ( well he doesn't make himself inconspicuious)

line outs woksop pressurising , scrummage sound ...big forward charges repelled and fringe defence strong .

lamin boot relieving pressure

draps collecting shit and gaining yds

ice quickest to most break down bridging and securing ball , yds made in centre

lamin again targeted, reaction a bit theactrical ....then he cops one proper ....ref aware

series of penalties , wksp have good kicker , presure in 22 , good defence

by this time hobbit in blood bin , anvil chuckin to line outs

dainty on !!

steal line out , draps drives on , dainty scrum half . oh f*ck , crap pass ..knock on

5yd scrum , hod shove repel scrum half , jez on floor with ball ( a feat repeated throughout the game )penalty

they come back ...lamin adjudged late tackle , yellow to scrum half

hamians advance

pressure tells goods hand puts epsy in out wide on left , chicago kicks

Wksp com back strong , good defence again ..hamians backs causing all sorts of problems ....changes to line out moves means clean ball avalible

Good intrpassing after epsy runs ball back , lamin attempts to bounce laege full back puts epsy in under the posts

14 nil

jon g comes o for lamin

yorkie fubbles high kick , hacks on hits winger who sprints off and steps pikey for clean run in , yorkie shows great pass to track back and run him down ...give away penalty

short move defence excellent and advance up pitch

yorkie catches punt , makes 50 yds slows up to allow support to reach and ruck out , quick move right , reycled to allow jon g to glide in under posts

21 nil and half time

from kick off retain ball , spin wide , chicago penetrates , ruck out , oli c good hands creates overlap for pikey to show sensitive hands to put epsy in for hat trick

in many respects try of the day as it followed the principles laid down in training

wksp heads down , mozza animated ....crap kick off return creates pressure , 5 mins of pressure ...good defence , jez , jp have formed method of defence to line out attacking platform ...wksp game slow and static

gain field position form swift running ...scrummage , hobbit with deft pud assist , skips wide fools the full back with maori sidestep , ( lamin watches in awe) strolls over

31 nil

another crap k off return ...pressure again

control line out , run wide , slighty over complicate but win scrum

chicago from good platform embaresses defence from oli c space creation

36 nil

another crap kick off

pressure from line out and scrum . tacklin and ruckin practice against live bodies

jp gets smack in face , fat prop waddles on

wksop have best period of game with ollin , mauls , static srummages ..hamians defence holds firm

jez oveinfuses and splits open some big munta's head, puddin claims his rabbit punch did the damage ( blood on jez's knee cap evidence of truth )

frowards release seige , dave snaffles line out ball . double ruck over ball , front row forwards run dummy imoact ball , defence split ...backs red hot ..chicago caps move by racing for corner only to throw the over the shoulder blind loop pass , an athletic yorkie plucks acrobaticlly to crash over the try line

chicago kicks ...44 nil

what follows is the truth ...

kick off ..hamians , sun still shining ...lets run it ....worksop to be fair defending stoutly , hmians desperate to keep alive , throw ball past full back ....pud like all good seccond row is covering 20 yds behind play , with two play ground skips and a hopscotch he is away to be tap tackled , off loads to anvil , who dummys the fat prop and ploughs up field , dave , jez and ice help out , draps spins wide and we ruck out ...dainty at scrum half remembers not to pass and runs into the first black and white thing he sees

mozza TAKES UP a hit , space out left draps on wing , epsy draws cover ...passes behind draps ...knock on

this is hamians rugby

scrum ...thsy bash up middle twice then spill it ...reycled ball spun wide left , bosh up middle twice , left again , ball spun wide , oli c , chicago fat prop out wide , reverse slight of hand and the maurading pud is away , ball in one hand , sees no wingeronly specators to right , skips back inside. dave , jez , ice continue ...jez again but spills poor pass ....40 yds of hamians forward ball handling prowess

scrum disruoted wksp overturned , ball secured and oli c and jon g combine to allow chicago second try

50 -nil

hamains as a result go top of the table a suprisin feat considering they are a promoted side

man of the match ' epsy no caus of crap pass ...jez for nuisance , puddin for his dancing footwork ....vote goes to yorkie

comment of day when canadian goose was follwing wksp full back ''closest he'll get to a bird today ' or when chicago ran through a flock to score his first try ' he's surrounded by the birds again ''

trainin tues only this week as Quiz night thursday

next week republic of souTh yorkshire and Dronfield AWAY