Rishworthians Minis v Huddersfield Minis
Rishworthians & Huddersfield enjoy a great morning's rugby
Match reports Sunday 7th October
A warm sunny October morning at Copley produced a bumper attendance with around 100 players enjoying a great mornings rugby. With a late change of venue during the week Rishworthians found themselves at home instead of travelling to Huddersfield. Thanks to all the players, parents, coaches, volunteers and match reporters to get a successful fixture venue changed at short notice.
Under 6’s The Micros
The under 6's have steadily increased in numbers over the last few weeks with 12 micros training. Neil Lumb on his own this week had his hands full but several parents stepped in to give a helping hand. After a training session the players were split into 2 teams and played a game of tag rugby. They are coming on well and starting to get to grips with the game. Once they reach their 6th birthday and understand the game they can join the under 7's squad and play some competitive games.
Under 7's The Young Guns
Rishworthians played a three way tournament with Huddersfield who brought enough players for two teams. With a growing squad of ten players, three of whom were playing their first game, Rishworthians put in two very creditable performances against a more experienced Huddersfield squad.
Game 1 RIshworthians 4 - 6 Huddersfield
In the first game Rishworthians were always behind but never gave up in a well-contested game, finally running out 4-6 losers. Kian Sutcliffe and Corey White both bagged a brace of tries apiece with both players showing great running and jinking skills to cross the try line. All the players tagged well and it was an excellent game to watch.
Game 2 RIshworthians 4 - 4 Huddersfield
In the second game for Rishworthians the squad again played some great rugby to hold on for a 4-4 draw. Kian Sutcliffe added another taking his tally for the day to three, but his efforts were outshone by newcomer William Hilton, whose excellent close support play enabled him to bag a hat trick of tries.
Team: Kian Sutcliffe, Finn Sutcliffe, Corey White, George Sutcliffe, Carrick Keighley-Payne, William Harker, William Hilton, Henry Hilton, Harry Stobart, Daniel Haigh
Man of the match was awarded to newcomer William Hilton
Many thanks to all the Huddersfield coaching staff who once again encouraged the players to play fairly, in a good spirit and most importantly to enjoy themselves. Thanks also for providing the referee who did a very good job.
Grahame White
Under 8’s The Raiders
For the fourth weekend running the Rishworthian U. 8’s were in competitive action on Sunday, this time with a visit from a strong Huddersfield squad.
Game 1 Rishworthians 5 - 6 Huddersfield
In the first of two matches Rishworthians matched their opponents try for try with scores from Alex Oldroyd, Kallan Jamieson, Sam Puddephatt and a brace of fantastic tries from Toby Muscat-Baron. Unfortunately, a brief lapse in defensive concentration cost the team dearly as Huddersfield scorched in for a late score to win the game 6 – 5.
Game 1 Rishworthians 5 - 4 Huddersfield
In the second match of the morning, coach Dave Puddephatt demanded greater attention to defence. The players responded with a better team effort to stop the Huddersfield attack. New boy Alex Scoley touched down, as did the impressive Kallan Jamieson for his second try of the morning. However, a man of the match performance from William Symms saw him grab a fistful of ‘tags’ and a hat-trick of tries to seal a 5 – 4 victory for Rishworthians.
Dave Puddephatt
Under 9's The Reds & All Blacks
After last weeks confidence boosting performance against Leeds Corinthians the ‘Rishes Reds’ were in confident mood, as a well drilled Huddersfield side awaited them.
Game 1 Rishworthian Reds 0 - 5 Huddersfield
Huddersfield kicked off and showed their intent to attack straight away as good quick ruck ball enabled them to surge up to The Reds 5 metre line aided by some sloppy defence from the home side, perhaps too many milkshakes after England famous victory the day before!. Play eventually broke down resulting in an attacking scrum to Huddersfield. This was the wake up call to The Reds as good strong defence from Nathan Cooper, Thomas Cockcroft and Will McDonnell enabled Jack Davis to rip the ball from the arms of the Huddersfield attacker and clear the danger.
It was now clear that Rishes had under estimated their Huddersfield opposition and it was not long before the home side found themselves on the back foot defending their try line again. After what seemed like an age camped on their own try line some strong aggressive tackling from Jacob Bower and Jack Davis eventually forced the turn over, The reds again found themselves under sustained pressure from Huddersfield as they struggled to cope with the visitors rucking and despite two or three excellent turn overs Rishes spent what was left of the first half having to defend and to their credit they managed to snuff out every Huddersfield attack.
The second half began with Huddersfield knocking the ball on giving Rishes a chance to attack from the scrum through Thomas Sweeten who made a jinking run across the field from his own half eventually straightening up and off loading the ball to Billy Whythe who was just bundled into touch. Play became a battle in mid field both sides defending well until Huddersfield picked up a loose ball and made 15 metres to within centimetres of the Rishes try line it was only due to the fantastic defence as a team from the Reds that Huddersfield did not score, unfortunately in their efforts to stop the visitors scoring they conceded a penalty for holding on to the ball. Huddersfield took a quick tap and after a couple of phases of play they squeezed in for the only try of the game. Rishes were now up against it and spent the last few minutes of the half tackling like demons but desperate for the referee to blow the full time whistle so they could regroup.
Game 1 Rishworthian Reds 15 - 5 Huddersfield
Huddersfield kicked off the second game as the home fans crossed their fingers and hoped that the Reds fresh from a ‘kick-up-the-backside’, sorry, inspirationally motivating team talk during the break from the coaches would turn their fortunes around, it did! A minute into the half a combination of good work from Sam Brant, Gregory Day and Jack Davis sent ‘Billy Whizz’ McDonnell side stepping his way from deep inside his own half on a mazy run only to be held just short of the line by some desperate Huddersfield defenders. Will’s run seemed to spur on the Reds attack and Thomas Sweeten was unlucky not to score after an interception on halfway. Things were going well for the home side until their hesitation again at the breakdown led to a line out for Huddersfield on the Rishes line and against the run of play the visitors scored, 5-0 to Huddersfield. The Reds soon recovered and it wasn’t long before excellent work from George Radcliffe on the blind side made room for ‘Rhino’ Jack Davis to make one of his direct runs into the heart of the opposition, side stepping it seems is a waste of energy and is best left to the backs! He was stopped just short. As the referee blew for half time The Reds despite poor rucking were taking hold of the game.
From the restart Rishes continued as they had finished the first half with aggressive defence, Jacob Bower leading the way. It wasn’t long before the Rishes pressure paid off as they were awarded a penalty on the Huddersfield 5 metre line, Thomas Sweeten again going close to scoring. By now Huddersfield were struggling to contain a Rishes side growing in confidence and George Radcliffe appeared like the shop keeper from Mr Ben to pick up a loose ball in his own half and set off up the field twisting out of numerous tackles, he then passed the ball onto Gregory Day who set the ball up in a ruck, Huddersfield too keen to get their hands on the ball were caught offside. From the penalty Jacob Bower forced his way over in the corner.
The Rishes Reds were now rampant and quick passing from the backs created space for Thomas Sweeten to score in the corner, the Reds now leading 10-5. Full time was fast approaching but there was still time for Rishes to seal a well deserved victory, again George Radcliffe the catalyst receiving a pass on the home 5 metre line from Thomas Delziel he made 15 metres before being stopped, for once Rishes gave Sam Brant quick ball from the ruck and this set Nathan Cooper free just inside the Huddersfield half he didn’t waste his opportunity and after some neat footwork he scored a well deserved try bringing the game to a close.
Rishes deservedly winning 15-5.
After a stuttering first game the under 9’s re-gathered their composure and played as we know they are capable of in the second game, with a little more time perfecting the art of rucking there will not be many teams that will live with The Rishes Reds.
Man of the Match – Thomas Sweeten
Award for Effort – George Radcliffe
Rob Davis
Under 10's & 11's
Rishworthians Under 10/11's 7 - 52 Huddersfield Under 11's
After last weeks defeat at the hands of the much older Corinthian side the Mixed under 10’s and 11’s were feeling positive and ready to capitalise on their early season performances. Their pre match warm up and practice had them developing passing and ball handling skills, working exceptionally hard on accuracy, timing and trying to sell the opposition a “dummy”.
The game started with some very strong Rishworthian pressure and excellent mauling particularly by Tom Hammond, Daniel Cooper, Kyle Jamieson and Alex Ratcliffe. However the whole team are willing to get stuck in and are not afraid to be in the thick of it, in fact most of the players appear frustrated by having to hang back and wait for the ball to come out. Unfortunately Huddersfield managed an effective turnover to produce an early try. The referee allowed use of the posts to enable the players to convert tries and Huddersfield duly converted.
After this early score the Rishworthians rallied and put even more sustained pressure on Huddersfield, keeping the ball firmly in the Huddersfield half, unfortunately a couple of unforced Rishworthian errors allowed Huddersfield to run in another pair of tries from their own half. On the rare occasions that Huddersfield broke down the Rishworthian defence and managed to drive the ball over the line it was more than likely that when the referee removed bodies from the pile a Rishworthian player (usually Kyle Jamieson) was under the ball smiling.
At the end of the first period Huddersfield had a 21-point lead.
The second period started with some excellent Rishworthian play both in attack and defence with Harvey Keighley-Payne (fresh form his East Yorkshire Triathlon win) producing some excellent ground gaining plays, backed up by Toby Cowell, Tom Vaughan and Edward Smith and Ben Atkinson. Again Huddersfield managed to capitalise on loose ball and managed to run in 2 tries in quick succession. This did not deter the Rishworthians with them producing more spirited play with Jack Raby feeding the ball to Haydn Corn who after a spirited run was felled by a dubious tackle that left him shaken enough to require substitution.
The second period finished with Huddersfield leading 35 – 0
The third period started with more excellent scrummaging from the Rishworthians (this week with the introduction of a second row).After a few minutes of Huddersfield pressure which was thwarted by some crunching Rishworthian tackling, the ball was fed out to Tom Hammond who ran 40 metres; leaving a stream of Huddersfield players in his wake; to produce a try which would have not looked out of place in France. This was duly converted.
Huddersfield eventually ran out 52-7 winners.
As with the Corinthian match Rishworthians were playing against Huddersfield's under 11's who were older, bigger and stronger and outgunned our squad but they all produced spirited performances. Although this was a losing match the squad are improving weekly thanks to the efforts of Andy Day and Keith Atkinson who have some excellent foundations to work with.
Man of the match was awarded to Tom Hammond
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