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Droitwich 0 – Stourbridge Lions 20

Sunday, October 9, 2005

Droitwich enjoyed a miserable afternoon in wretched conditions at the Memorial Ground on Saturday, going down 20 points to nil to Stourbridge Lions.

The unavailability of Jon Andrews and the late withdrawal of Jim Richardson left the pack with an unfamiliar line-up, and the driving wind and rain made handling especially difficult; with Droitwich’s most potent weapons, wingers Leon Hopkins and Jamie Faulkener being mainly redundant all afternoon.

The visitors' strong pack and well organised lineout ruled the day and Droitwich never really seemed to be able to gain any consistent ball, despite the efforts of skipper Nick Godfrey.

Playing with the wind on their backs in the first half Droitwich never seriously threatened the Stourbridge line and it was the visitors who went into the break with a six point lead courtesy of two penalty goals.

Early in the second half a Droitwich scrum was disrupted near their own line for Stourbridge to increase their lead.

A further try was added to complete the scoring.

This is an afternoon Droitwich will want to firmly put behind them and re-group ahead of next week’s cup game at Worksop.

Check out a few selected photos from Saturday.

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