Dursley Rugby Football Club
Dursley R.F.C.
Registered as a Community Amateur Sports Club CASC since 2004
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Dursley Best at Aztec West
12th March 2012
Dursley ran out winners 5-19 in an entertaining QF encounter against North Bristol in a game that was tighter than the score suggested. The Dursley faithful had made the short trip to Almondsbury for their Quarter Final encounter against North Bristol full of expectation. Our boys were clearly buoyed in the pre-match warm up with one boy in particular needing the calming influence of Coach Lloyd. He was clearly still carrying too much exuberance from the previous days 92nd Max Clayton winner at Gillingham that saw the mighty Crewe Alexandra move within touching distance of the play-offs.
Our man at the scene extricated himself from BaconRollGate incident pre-match in time to hear the Bishop of Wotton’s sermon entitled 'how to sell 5 loaves and 2 fishes on e-bay" to the gathered congregation. Soon after, the referee, in a lamentable sartorial offering of blue shell suit, called the captains together and Dursley kicked off. North Bristol were alive from the off though and opened the scoring when their speedy wing went over in the corner following good handling for an unconverted try 5-0.
Dursley rallied strongly and a long period of pressure saw a number of half chances go a begging, until some fabulous hands from Nathan, Adam, Ollie and James released Darryl on the left, who finally cut inside to keep the move going before Nathan broke through to score under the posts. Jumping to his feet to convert his own try. 5-7. Dursley were on top now and Tom K was unlucky to be pulled up short following a strong run just before the half time whistle.
Dursley came out of the 2nd half blocks faster than a cheetah on rollerblades and North Bristol could not handle the waves of attack. This early pressure released Sam C down the right and his bursting run eventually set up Tom H to finish calmly, but not before he had garnished the move with fabulous high stepping dummy. Unconverted to leave the score 5-12
Within 2 minutes the score improved further as a lung busting run from Henry Momber (whose father manfully stood on the sidelines despite some near fatal man-flu in the week) that was swiftly moved through the backs for Nathan to score under the posts, before converting himself (not converting 'himself'...I meant the ball) 5-19
North Bristol came back strongly but the Dursley defence repelled all boarders with Darryl again standing out with 2 try saving tackles. Coach Lloyd introduced some fresh legs and Chris B, Davis and Ashley B had immediate impacts with some hard aggressive tackling.
The game finished 5-19 with Dursley good value for their win in a highly entertaining match
Key stats
Points – North Bristol 5 Dursley 19
Bacon Roll – Anaemic
Man-Flu – A Momber
E- bay Industrialisation Advice – The Right Reverend His Eminence The Bishop of Wotton
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