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Croydon Girls V Crawley / Dorking
Match Report Sunday 21 September 2008
The Croydon Ladies team took part in a triangular match on Sunday at Crawley RFC. The event consisted of two 20 minute games against teams from Dorking and Crawley. The first of which was against a Crawley team included 4 players from Dorking to make the squad of 15. For Crawley’s match against Dorking, four girls from Croydon stepped into the breach to make up numbers.
Croydon spent the first 10 minutes of the game camped in the middle of Crawley’s half of the pitch but were unable to make much progress towards the try line. Following a short drink break the game resumed from another Croydon scrum and the Bam, Mel and Helen combo broke through and Helen was able to touch down not far from the corner flag. This left a rather oblique angle for the goal kick which Helen was unable to convert. Crawley made a swift break for the Croydon line but they were unable to get through. The game ended with Amy taken off following an injury after a collapsed scrum. Amy was taken to A&E at Redhill and is now back at home looking forward to pizza instead of training this week.
Whilst the first match was dominated by Croydon’s scrum, the strength of Dorking’s wingers exposed Croydon’s defences. Three quick tries were scored with the Croydon girls left in the shadows as Dorking touched each ball down in the centre of the posts leaving them an easy kick to convert each of the tries. Having regained their composure Croydon held firm in the centre of the pitch for the next ten minutes but were unable to get within 10 yards of the Dorking try line. The game was completed by a further two tries by Dorking who again outran the Croydon girls on the right wing.
Having completed the triangular tournament, a scratch barbarian game was started with two teams made up with players taken from the three teams. This game was soon stopped when Roe managed to knock herself out following an excellent tackle (by Roe) but somehow ended up base over apex and out for the count. Roe quickly recovered but went to A&E as a precaution.
In the bar after the game, Crawley provided a pasta buffet and Ginge was awarded the manager’s play of game from Croydon and Valerie from Crawley. In the traditional way the two competed to see who could down a glass cola the quickest. It seemed to be a tie which nicely summed up the day.
