1st XV
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Sat 03 Nov 2018  ·  Herts/Middlesex 1
St Albans Rugby Club
1st XV
28
31
Actonians
A missed opportunity!

A missed opportunity!

Terry Evans5 Nov 2018 - 11:14
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Actonians put the skids under Saints to snatch a hard fought win.

A minute’s silence was held prior to kick off as a mark of respect for two St. Albans Club members who had passed away during the last two weeks. Sadly, both Peter Baines and Peter Clackson lost their fight against cancer and the Club’s thoughts and sympathies go out to their families and friends.

St. Albans came into this game on the back of four straight wins, confidence was high and the visitors, Old Actonians, had not recorded a victory this season.

Actonians had obviously not read the script as they produced a display that belied their lowly league position. From the outset they contested everything and adapted quickly to the conditions, having the blustery wind in their favour.

Saints had dominance in the tight and at the first scrum drove the visitors back with ease, but St. Albans ball retention was poor as the visitors stifled most of their attempts to create fluency in their game.

By half time Saints had edged in front with a converted Aaron James-Nicholas try, to an Actonians penalty, 7 – 3.

With the wind now at their backs one would have expected St. Albans to lay siege to the visitors 22 metre area, however this was not the case as Actonians seized the initiative.

During the next fifteen minutes we saw five try’s, four to Actonians, one George Saunders try to Saints. St. Albans were really struggling to get any method in their game and the visitors were doing an excellent job retaining the ball and forcing errors.

St. Albans then began to put some urgency into their game and another score from Aaron James-Nicholas plus a George Elliott try and conversion put them within three points of the visitors.

Actonians stuck to their game plan and kept up their enviable ball retention skills to deny Saints any further opportunity, and justifiably run out winners 28 -31. Saints were left to rue a missed opportunity.

Match details

Match date

Sat 03 Nov 2018

Kickoff

14:00

Competition

Herts/Middlesex 1

League position

3
St Albans
12
Actonians
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Club Sponsor - Lister Interiors Ltd
Offical Charity Partner - East & North Herts Hospitals Charity