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Romford thump Southwold - Match Report & Video

Romford thump Southwold - Match Report & Video

stewart stevens27 Jan 2019 - 08:58
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In a cold January afternoon , and still with some what better weather conditions then the visit to southwold , park welcomed the Suffolk side down to crow lane .

With southwold kicking off they made the most of a slow start by park and mounted a number of attacks with an infringement for offside the wold kicker put them 0-3 up .

Still not woken up park found them self defending again and wold moved the ball wide and scored in the corner to move 0-8 .

With this skipper Micky James spoke to the boys and they knew they was in a game , with some good phases of play quick move from the backs wold sucked in the ball was moved wide for Tyler ford to run in from 40 metres beaten a number of defenders on the way to the try line . Conversion jack macveigh 

Confidence growing and Harry walker player out of position at 10 starting pulling the strings and yet again phase play and quick

Movement of the ball Tyler ford being held up for a great pop of the floor for returning Ian semian to score conversion missed.

With park now finding there feet and working hard with the ball the next try was a great link up straight running rugby fix the man and support to score starting the move before the half way and jack Mac finishing off the try and converting making the score 19-8 .

With the half coming to an end park put more pressure on southwold with the running and support play and from yet again quick ball Dwayne Lyn scored jack Mac adding the conversion , bonus point score and a 26-8 half time lead . 

Southwold come out fighting in the second half but it was park that started the scoring yet again good link up play exposing the southwold defence and paul Webb scoring .jack mac slotting the conversion 33-8 .

Southwold under some good pressure found a gap and walked in to make the score 33-15 

With changes being rung Semain took over as skipper and with two penalties elected for post which jack mac slotted to make it 39 -15 .

More pressure from romford found from a great attacking run from Tyler ford , and quick rucks found Paul Webb for his second of the game . 

The final romford score come from southwold attacking romfoed forwards ripping the ball and you’ve guessed it Peter Obrien was on hand to run in from 40 metres conversion missed 51-15.

From the restart romford collected , looking to move the ball jack macveigh through the pass the southwold centre who kindly took it and went in to make the final score 51-22 

A great performance by romford slow to
Start but grew into the game , special mentions to Ben Wrigley man of the match his work rate was non stop and was a real star performance , other mentions Harry Walker great game out of position , Harry Clarke good game in the scrum and loose , Dwayne Lyn tackling everything in site . Jack Mac playing well and back to his best . 

Focus changes from league action to semi final of the Essex cup against Harlow , with the boys looking to write a few wrongs from the previous 15-15 draw . 

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