Sutton Coldfield Casuals
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Sat 31 Oct 2015
Aston Old Eds 2s
40
38
Sutton Coldfield RFC
Sutton Coldfield Casuals
Halloween Horror Show.

Halloween Horror Show.

ANDY DUCKWORTH31 Oct 2015 - 19:54
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Sutton get there festivals mixed up and gift Aston the game!

Sutton 3s played Aston Old Eds 1s and 2s in a friendly today and put in a suitably horrific and zombie like performance as they stumbled trance like to a 40-38 defeat! The best thing about the game was watching it in warm sunshine because it was not a thing of great beauty and flowing rugby!
Sutton sleepwalked into an early 10 point deficit thanks to series of missed tackles leading to a try and one of many strange penalty decisions that Aston benefited from. A sparkling try from Josh Pugh lit up the half for 30 seconds but another soft try had made the score 15-0 so Josh’s try and Chris Duckworth’s conversion had only brought the score back to 15-7 before another concession of a try that I can’t remember as it was so memorable made the score 22-7 heading towards half time. A Duckworth try from the base of a ruck, that he converted meant the half time score was 22-12 to the home side.
Playing up hill in the second half Sutton roared back to have the game by the scruff of the neck as 2 tries without reply by Tom Foulsham and Duckworth, both converted by the latter meant a 26-22 lead for Sutton. However the dark side appeared again as somehow Aston scored 18 points without reply as they stretched out to a 40-26 lead without ever doing much to earn it!!!
Game over!!! Not quite! Josh Pugh crashed over for his second and Vaughan Brown scampered over to make the score 40-38 as only one try was converted. The last play should have led to the winning try but the lack of a killer instinct prevalent throughout the match meant the ball was dropped on half way with Aston’s defence scattered to the four winds.
A real Jekyll and Hyde performance which to be honest was not good enough! The scrum worked well repeatedly splintering the home scrum but the support wasn’t there around the park. Mark Baines, Mark Letman and Matt Morgan put in good shifts. But all in all a Halloween horror show.

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Sat 31 Oct 2015

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