Match Report - Longlevens v Brockworth (27th January)

Longlevens 63 - 0 Brockworth

'Levens opened their '08 County Cup campaign this morning, with a comfortable home win against a slightly under-strength Brockworth side (but, on the bright side, at least the weather was better than the abandoned game in December!!)...

5 minutes in the home team put together some good phases of play on the right, with some decent backs play from Taff Ford and Matt Hayward before the ball went into the forwards again for a try from Ben Gabb on the right.

10 minutes in 'Levens took Brockworth lineout ball and put together a 'proper' move for Taff to cruise over in the right corner.

Quarter of an hour in, following some ill-discipline amongst the visitors, 'Levens worked a nice miss move between Christian Hartery and Jamie Best from a 5m scrum, to send Nathan Hazard in to make the score 15-0.




5 minutes later 'Levens worked a good backs move, involving Taff, Jed Jones and Matt Hayward, leading to a try converted by Christian for 22-0.

Brockworth were trying to come back into the game, but George Cusworth, Joe Salkeld, Chris Powick, Stu Stephenson and Sam Rees were working hard to frustrate their efforts, and just before half time Hayward made another good break on the right, feeding Cusworth who linked with Powick who put Deacs over for the final score of the half - 29-0.

'Levens started the second half as they'd finished the first, with Shane O'Brien running hard on the right wing, and Jed Jones looking very solid at full back. Early in the half Matt Hayward put in a blistering run from the 10m line on the left to make the score 34-0.

The home pack continued to dominate, with Paul Watson putting in some punishiung runs and, as the half progressed the coaching brains trust (well, OK, Mark & Deacs) started to ring the changes with Fergus Walsh coming on for Jed, and Lewis 'Crazy Legs' Powell replacing Stu Stephenson.




10 minutes in the home team executed a textbook catch & drive from a lineout for Ben Gabb to crash over form close rnge for 39-0. Straight after, 'Levens came back again via O'Brien on the right for 44-0.

More changes followed - Rich 'Smiler' Parker on for Chris Powick, Sam Lane for Ben Gabb and CJ Johnson for George Cusworth - Lewis Powell put in an excellent chase from a kick ahead from Taff Ford, and from the ensuing scrum Rich Parker went over on the left for 49-0.




A second try from O'Brien followed, finishing off another good backs move, with Hartery converting. Jake Williams came on for Matt Hayward and produced another terrier-like performance in the time available.

Taff Ford finished off the scoring, cutting through a tiring defence from the 22 for 63-0.





For a cracking all-round performance, Stu Stephenson was named
m-o-t-m..





And, as you can tell, the home spectators were in raptures after this performance...