On a windy day Stow were blown away
Stow on the Wold III XV 12 - 43 Chiltern III XV1st March 2008
Chiltern 43
Tries: Bobbett, Kent, Feaver (2), Porter, Richardson D, Sanford
Cons: Nicholls (3), Richardson D
Wow, what an exciting day, for the club: all three teams won this afternoon, and for your intrepid match reporter: not only scoring his first try of the season, but unfortunately finished up in Stoke Mandeville, all's ok I'm glad to say, nothing some glue and few stitches couldn't sort out.
The Chiltern 3rds went all the way out to Stow on the Wold today, only to find that Stow had their second team game cancelled, so a rather young looking opposition took to the field, however Chiltern scored seven tries, winning very comfortably 43 - 12.
The pack, consisting of Bobbett, Long and Shanks, in the front row, Gibson and Sandford at locks, and Preston, Bissex and Kent in the back row; the scrum never looked in danger, winning all Chiltern ball and putting pressure on the opposition put in, however Chiltern completely dominated the lineout, with Sandford jumping at 4 securing all Chiltern ball, and Preston jumping at 2 stealing opposition ball, three of the seven tries came from lineouts today, Charlie Kent and myself scoring from catch and drive moves, and Mike Sandford snagging a loose opposition ball to score.
The backs, with Winson and Nicholls at half back, Pete Solman making his club debut alongside Brian Richardson in the centre, Porter and Feaver on the wings and Dave Richardson at 15. Brian Feaver bagged a couple of tries, with the other winger Ty Porter picking up one, and Dave Richardson bulldozing over a tap penalty for the other try, four conversions completed scoring, three from Dougal Nicholls and one from big Dave!
A word must go the opposition who never gave up, and finished the first half with a well deserved try after a sustained period of pressure, and then later in the second half despite having their scrum shunted back 5 yards over their goal line managed to kick the ball away chased well to the other end of pitch, grabbing a second try.
The game finished a few minutes prematurely when yours truly clashed heads with Mike Sandford in a tackle, and opened up my forehead, neither team felt the need to play the last few minutes with uncontested scrums. I was delighted to hear from Rob Long our skipper that today's man of the match was myself, the sympathy vote I think!
Next week we have a home game versus third place Milton Keynes, now if after reading these reports of the successes of the third team, you fancy putting those boots on, give Rob Long a call. So that's the end of today's match report, well done to all three Chiltern teams, by the way did I mention I scored a great try!
Richard Bobbett 1/3/08
Team
1 Bobbett, 2 Long, 3 Shanks, 4 Sanford, 5 Gibson, 6 Bissex, 7 Preston, 8 Kent, 9 Winson, 10 Nicholls, 11 Feaver, 12 Solman, 13 Richardson B, 14 Feaver, 15 Richardson D