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Saltash 47 ~ Devonport Services II 17.

Saltash 47 ~ Devonport Services II 17.

Mike Yeats28 Aug 2024 - 08:35

The third team game turned out to be off when I got there to watch it.

We were playing down the slope in the first half.
A very early try by Saltash put them in the lead, we replied with two tries by Toby Lean and a conversion by Kieran Down for the second try.
Just before the break, Ollie Whitfield scored to make the half-time score 5~17.

The second half was all Saltash's with forty-two unanswered points.
We didn't suddenly become poor players in the second half, it was more that they had the psychological advantage of the slope and with some physical advantage, a couple of early tries, the sniff of a win that comes with it, a decent sized and noisy home crowd to impress, the odd referee's decision did not go our way, a couple of our players lost focus.
Then there is the rugby ball, one occasion right at the end the chipped through ball was bouncing around in front of the posts, with one of their players and one of ours trying to get it, if the last bounce was right they scored if it bounced left we cleared.
It bounced right.
It was actually a close game bar the last twenty minutes.

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