Droitwich U15’s 32 - Kidderminster U15’s 7

Sunday 16th March 2008

Droitwich travelled to Kidderminster this weekend for a contest staged in damp and blustery conditions.

Droitwich started where they left off last week, pressing Kidderminster from the kick-off, looking to change early position into points. Fluid rugby with both backs and forwards involved pushed a dogged Kidderminster defence back to their try line. Droitwich had a number of opportunities to open the scoring, but it was left to Sam O’Brien leading by captain’s example to crash over for the first try of the game.

From the restart Droitwich showed some determination in increasing their try tally, with the Droitwich forwards compressing the play only to release the backs for a move which ended in George Bishop scoring their second try in the corner.

Again from the restart Droitwich endeavoured to press their advantage running the ball back into Kidderminster territory, where Anton Preece picked up on a well executed forwards move on the half way line and carved his way through the Kidderminster defence to score Droitwich’s third try of the half.

Kidderminster then rallied and Droitwich were required to produce some excellent defensive plays with Oliver Swift kicking away to relieve the Kidderminster pressure. The first half ended Droitwich 15 - Kidderminster 0.

The second half started much like the first ended with Kidderminster pressing to open their score, and Droitwich defending their try line. As the half progressed Droitwich turned the tide and started to exert pressure on Kidderminster themselves, which was rewarded when the forwards finished off a grinding drive with Sam O’Brien charging through for his second try of the game which was converted by Oliver Swift.

From the restart Droitwich again put the Kidderminster defence on the back foot taking ground and position, allowing the backs to attack from the flanks ably supported by the forwards. From a scrum under the posts Sam O’Brien took advantage of some loose defending to slip through to score his third try of the game.

From the restart the game started to get a bit scrappy with both sides losing possession and giving the ball to each other, and it was in one of these periods of play that Kidderminster took advantage of a lapse in concentration by Droitwich to open their tally with a try and conversion under the Droitwich posts.

This sparked Droitwich into life with some aggressive play from all of the team as they proceeded to drive the ball down the field closer to the Kidderminster try line. A number of times Droitwich looked as though they would break through to score again but some sterling defence kept Droitwich back.

Eventually as the game came to its conclusion Droitwich made all of the pressure count when Josh Sutterby broke through to score again for Droitwich to finally close out the match, with a final score of Droitwich 32 - Kidderminster 7.

Coaches’ special mentions must go to: Luke Topping, Sam Cave, Andy Geoghegan and Nathan Rewbury for some well executed rugby.

Man of the Match was Connor O’Donnell.

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