Longlevens 5 - 10 Cleve
Well, it was a tougher test in the County Cup last weekend (sorry for the report being late - been busy, and yes, I know I'm a Civil Servant!!) and 'Levens came up short - out-psyched by a good team and to a certain extent looking beaten before they started...
As you can see, the spectators were on the edge of their seats before KO - not sure about the security fencing though....
The home team started well, with some real effort and good play from Deacs Jnr and Sam Rees, with Chris Powick putting in some thundering runs, but nothing came of this possesion.
10 minutes in Yorkie stole a Cleve pass, fed Bestie and Matt Hayward put in a strong run before being run out of play.
20 minutes in 'Levens forced Cleve into conceding a penalty which we failed to convert from just outside the 22. Just after this, Cleve scored on the left following a good move, for 0-5 and 5 minutes later they repeated the process for 0-10....
Just before half time Hayward again put in a storming run, on the right this time, forcing Cleve to concede a penalty in the 22, we moved the ball left, with Mikey Yorke putting Jacob Dyer in on the left for 5-10.
The second half was scoreless, with occasional 'Levens pressure but good defence from Cleve and some dangerous breaks from the visitors, only just kept out by the home team on a number of occasions
After the match, Head Coach Deacon remained, er, philosophical about the morning, pondering on the reasons for a rather poor performance - hopefully we'll bounce back...
Matt Hayward was named man of the match for the home team, and made commendably short work of his pint of creme de casis shandy....
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