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Glyncorrwg RFC | 1st Team 7 - 16 Baglan RFC | 1st Team
Alun Newell
Conversion 1
Rhodri Thomas
Try 1

Match Report
06 November 2017 / Team News

Disappointing loss again.

After getting a couple of players back from injury we then lost Steffan Williams, Jonathan Howells, Nathan Down and Rhodri Milsom through work, injuries and unavailability. The Baglan time are riding high in the league and are a very big outfit but our scrum stood strong. Baglan had the better start and were on top for most of the first half  and took the lead with a well try which went unconverted after we missed a couple of long range kicks at goal. With the half going on for close on fifty minutes they increased their lead with with a penalty.

With the second half under way we began to get stronger but we were hit by another try which looked fortunate has he load to have failed to ground the ball but the referee said he had and again this went unconverted. This setback galvanised us and we hit back strong and after some good approach work centre Rhodri Thomas back after injury sustained during the first game of the season scored a well worked try for Alun Newell to convert. The score put us in with a bonus point but this would not be the case at the end of the game. With some extended pressure by us we were unlucky not to score a try under the posts from some poor handling by Baglan when they dropped the ball which was hacked through but for a bounce which toot the ball away from one of our forwards into the fullbacks hands and he kicked it clear. Going into the final quarter and from a rare attack Baglan were given a penalty under our post for hands in a ruck by Steff Hnatiuk which looked as if it should have been given to us, and the kick was successful which denied us the bonus point. But we could have rescued the point when right at the end we were awarded a penalty but choose not to go for goal but went down the line and from the resulting line-out we knocked on and allowed Baglan to kick it out.

Next week we travel to Cefn Cribbwr RFC kick off is 2-30 pm all support welcome. 

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