LLANGWM RFC U11s 21 pts
TENBY RFC U11s 40
Another fine delivery of junior rugby from both sides. Captain for the Seasiders was Michael Robins who, without doubt, must be the toughest bravest and illusive player we have. From the off he played his heart out with exciting runs and monster tackling (writes A. Hodgson).
The rest of the squad took some time to wake up to the challenge and during this slow start watched Llangwm take the lead 7-0.
That seemed to stir some effort in the Tenby forwards with Lewis Davis taking the initiative and making good ground the only way he knows - straight through the middle to score an excellent power drive try.
However, this still kept the rest of the squad snoring and soon Llangwm took great advantage of some poor Tenby tackling to lead 14-7.
As coaches we hoped this would be the shock treatment the lads needed to get started. Again this was only adhered to by Lewis Davies with yet another powerful try. Half-time score 14-all.
After the water break the penny finally dropped. Taking the slope to their advantage, the Seasiders kicked off their slippers, donned their boots and showed all us first-half critics just what they could do. The forwards showed brilliant strength and companionship with superb support play.
Alex Thomas, Andrew Cooke, Matthew Dick, Daniel Gosnold and Jonathan Miller ripped the opposition apart to allow hero of the day Lewis Davies to score his hat-trick. This was closely followed by his front row buddy Jonathan Miller who broke several would-be tacklers to be assisted over the line by his fellow engine room ship mates for another front row try.
As the forwards were making the scoreboard tick over, the backs were doing the business in attack and support play. Joseph Richards, at scrum-half for the first time, played a blinder and released both Daniel Thomas and Tom Baker on several of their jinking runs. Lewis Hodgson, as per usual, wore the fullback shirt with pride making good attacking and defensive decisions.
Nino Rogers wouldn't take no for an answer and persistently annoyed the opposition with numerous darting runs which inspired Ross Grey to open the throttle and burn some energy off on the wing.
But it was back to the forward division to score the next try - and who better than Andrew Cooke with yet another one of his never say die runs to the line. Even though the score was now mounting up Llangwm kept face with charge after charge and were rewarded with a fine try.
The finals score for Tenby eventually belonged to the backs, however.
Lewis Canton went on a mission impossible with the whole of the Llangwm squad bearing down on him, but some how jinked, swerved, disappeared and reappeared over the try line for a 'spectacular' try.
A big thank you to Mike Evans for being ref. My turn next time!