View from the touchline
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Topic: View from the touchline
Posted By: Rabbie Burns
Subject: View from the touchline
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2022 at 21:11
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Here my blinkered view of todays game Was nice to have Walsham visit again albeit at a different venue. Walsham opened the scoring with a well struck penalty from around 40m which was shortly after a beautiful struck drop goal attempt that bounced of the post a rare skill these days unfortunately after that on the scoring side it was one way traffic with 5 first half tries and 3 second half tries from the Club Tom Ffitch added 5 from 8 conversions for a personal tally of 15 points. Walsham showed great spirit and never stopped trying but again a resolute Club defence managed to keep them at bay. Lovely comment from the ref after the game about the pitch which he reckons was the best he has ever participated on which is nice as it shows the money spent of infrastructure is reaping rewards and providing a great surface for the expansive rugby we are playing this season. Onto TJs next week for the first of back to back local derbies ------------- So many Christians not enough Lions |
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Posted By: islander
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2022 at 10:49
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Made my first visit to a Dorking home game + lunch yesterday since the return to normal service post-virus. I'm definitely biased given long-standing links with the club, but what an immense day: three teams at home at the Big Field, a packed upstairs for lunch, featuring excellent food, washed down with Pride or Hophead, and good banter. Then an absolutely gripping, high-quality game. Dorking scored two superb tries after two mins of each half, but otherwise found Guernsey hard to break down, managing just one other score - a penalty. Home kicker Anscomb missed three other penalty chances, but one of his conversions was a cracker from the touchline and was to provide crucial breathing space in the closing stages, when it was 17-13. Dorking's defence was as good as Guernsey's - conceding a mauled try after 5ish mins but otherwise holding firm, even when down to 14 men (after YC) in closing stages with visitors coming down the slope and looking to get the killer try - another maul looked the most likely route. It never came, so fair play to Dkg for holding out in a game of the finest margins. I'd expect Gsy to finish higher than current 9th, while the table is particularly congested higher up: only 4 pts separating 2nd to 8th... Game was quite feisty but very well-controlled by Katherine Ritchie. 2.30 seemed a reasonable time to KO in early November, with sunset at half four, but it was a particularly gloomy day and it was pretty dark (but just playable) when a 2nd half of just over 50mins finished at just after 4.20. And a crowd of 556 on a pretty cr@ppy day - 5th highest out of 20 games in N2, and higher than 4/7 N1 games (+ 1 in Championship Cup) - Dorking are doing something right. The atmosphere in the clubhouse was very lively when I left about an hour after KO to join the nearby Brockham Bonfire festivities. |
Posted By: islander
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2023 at 21:59
Postscript - Katherine Ritchie is doing 2 games as AR in the forthcoming Women's 6N - nice accolade for a N2 official!
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