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 Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 17:55 |
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Lions side for the visit of Darlington Mowden Park
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Posted: 09 Mar 2025 at 17:07 |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2025 at 13:51 |
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The Lions go to Esher with pretty much the same side as last week, Mali Satala moves to the wing for Joe Brock returning at 15. South African Cam de Beer returns after his loan to Leicester Tigers last week, he is on the bench.
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Posted: 16 Mar 2025 at 17:45 |
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A rather late report from last weeks win against Darlington Mowden Park
If the Lions are to stay in National One then it was vital that they beat the league's bottom side, Darlington Mowden Park, and they certainly did that, scoring 11 unanswered tries in a fine display of attacking rugby. The home supporters didn't have to wait long to celebrate as Luke Bouchier crossed after just 3 minutes when he was found back on the inside after an Aaron Pope break. Bouchier converted and then extended the lead shortly afterwards with a long range penalty (10-0). Quick scores from Ethan Godefroy, following an Arthur Allen break, and then Charlie Davies, who won the race to a Jamel Hamilton kick through, gave the Lions a commanding 22-0 lead after just 25 mins. The try bonus point was secured 5 minutes later with a flowing move that saw the ball moved from one side of the pitch to the other where James Stubbs collected an offload from Hamilton. Bouchier adding the conversion (29-0). Bouchier added another penalty before finding Jake Sterland with a wide pass for the winger to round off an impressive first half with a score out wide (37-0). The Lions picked up where they left off second half and early scores from Stubbs and 18 year old Northampton Saints man Charlie Ulcoq put the result beyond any doubt. Bouchier converting one of the tries. (49-0) Malellili Satala produced the moment of the match just before the hour mark. The dual-registered Tigers man, playing in the unfamiliar position of full-back, received the ball inside his own 22 and proceeded to dance through a number of would-be tacklers, to score a sensational solo try. Bouchier converted two of the three tries to stretch the lead to 56-0. Three further scores came from Oliver Taylor, Harry Palmer and Charlie Davies, who completed the rout when he gathered another clever Bouchier chip, to conclude an impressive attacking display. Bouchier added another two conversions to give him an impressive 25 point personal haul. FT 75-0 Head coach Gareth Collins commented: ''As much as the scoreline was unexpected the result certainly wasn't. We've been really unlucky against some top sides in recent weeks so we felt that the wins would come if we sustained our performance levels. DMP actually started the game pretty well but as soon as we got in to our stride we were sensational. We pride ourselves on our attack and most of our scores today came from some really adventurous running rugby so that was really pleasing. We have given ourselves the opportunity to stay up with that result but we wont get carried away. We have a huge game at Esher next week and our focus now switches to that game.'' |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2025 at 19:14 |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2025 at 19:21 |
I do hope we don't repeat last season where we waited until the last game to get the points, I hope we can pick up enough points at home to secure another shot at this great league.
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Posted: 17 Mar 2025 at 13:34 |
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Any one fancy a game of rugger....................................?
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Posted: 17 Mar 2025 at 21:12 |
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The Lions secured a second successive win with a bonus point win away at relegation rivals Esher. In doing so the gap to the London side is now just 4 points, with 4 games to play.
The home side enjoyed the majority of the early possession and, despite some resolute Lions defence, got the games' first score when hooker Joe Vajner crossed (5-0). The Lions soon settled in to the game and started to exert dominance through their set piece. Arthur Allen scored twice, on 22 mins and 32 mins, both from driving mauls. Bouchier converting one of them (5-12). The Lions added a third score when Ahren Crowley (who had come on for the injured Aaron Pope towards the start of the game) profited from a loose ball that Jamel Hamilton had scooped up before feeding the winger who crossed out wide. Bouchier converted the difficult conversion (5-19). A late Sam Morley penalty for Esher reduced the deficit just before half time (8-19). The home side once again came out the blocks fighting, and were rewarded with an Owen Waters try that was converted by Morley (15-19). Just as they had in the first half though, the Lions started to dominate the contest. Esher were struggling to deal with the Lions scrum, which had benefited from the introduction of experienced campaigners Olly Taylor and Will Roberts off the bench, and Caleb Ashworth saw yellow as a result. Finally a long period of pressure told when Charlie Davies scored on 75 minutes, retrieving a clever chip from Crowley who had received a sublime pass off Bouchier. The fly half converted to secure the fully deserved bonus point win (15-26). FT 15-26 Head coach Gareth Collins: ''Obviously it was a bit of a 'cup final' so there was always going to be plenty of nerves around. We took a little while to settle in to the game but once we did I thought we controlled the game really well. Esher are such a dangerous attacking side and for the most part our defence stood up really well and we kept the game away from our line. This result gives us a real opportunity to stay up but there's plenty of work to be done yet. We're looking forward to taking on a tough Sale team back at home next week.'' |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2025 at 17:46 |
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Same strong Lions side this week for the visit of Sale FC at Westleigh Park
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Posted: 23 Mar 2025 at 22:19 |
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Sale would have been very keen to avenge the previous results having lost all three previous meetings between the sides and it was the visitors who drew first blood, through a Robins penalty on 16 minutes (0-3).
The Lions responded well though and when Joe Brock received a goal line drop out the ball was fed wide to Mali Satala who found Harry Palmer back on the inside to score. Bouchier converted before adding a penalty to extend the lead (10-3). The remainder of the half belonged to Sale though. The Lions back three were struggling to field the contested box kicks and Sale converted these territory gains in to points through two scores from centre Roberts, crashing through the Lions midfield on both occasions. Albeit through some relatively soft would-be tackles. Robins converted both scores for a 10-17 half time lead. Sale continued their dominance at the start of the second period and two driving maul tries, from Brown and then Longstaff, were followed by a score for second row Mintern who crashed over from close range on 57 minutes to give the visitors a healthy lead (10-32). The final quarter saw the Lions hit back with three scores of their own though. Firstly Charlie Davies made a dent off a scrum move and found Jamel Hamilton with an offload to put his fellow centre over. This was followed quickly by Harry Palmer putting his second row partner Ben Almond under the sticks with a nice short ball. Bouchier converted both to reduce the arrears (24-32). Another maul try for Sale on 70 minutes, a second for Longstaff, sealed the win for the visitors but a fourth successive conversion miss from Robins meant a converted score would still earn the Lions two bonus points (24-37). With time up the Lions launched one final attack and after a number of phases Jamel Hamilton found Joe Brock back on the inside, who in turn passed to former Sale man Jordan Tebbatt to score the bonus point try under the posts. Bouchier secured the losing bonus point with the easy conversion. FT 31-37 Head coach Gareth Collins commented: ''From the position we were in, it took some effort for the boys to find solutions. Unfortunately our own errors gave the Sale pack too many maul opportunities and that was the difference. But I'm really pleased with how we stuck to our attacking principles though and eventually they got us two points that could be huge in terms of survival.'' |
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