SWF U13’s travel to Campion RFC

SWFRFC U13’s travelled to Romford on Sunday for their next fixture of the Waterfall Cup competition.

On what turned out to be a sunny warm morning, Woodham kicked off to the home team from the top of a sloping pitch.

The first 5 minutes saw Woodham shake away the cobwebs before they started to gel and play like a team. Zachary opened the scoring for SWF after the ball was passed out and he made a strong run into the right corner to dot down.

This seemed to calm the nerves and soon the boys were starting to find their rhythm. Mason was the next to cross the line after a few more minutes play and the die was cast for the rest of the game. On his debut, Archie took an off load from Adam and hugged the right touchline to go past 3 defenders to touch down in the corner. The smile on his face said it all.

With the pack winning most of the scrums, this gave Woodham a good platform to keeping launching attacks from all over the park to keep going forward. Further tries from Adam and Oliver saw the visitors 25-0 up at half time.

Zachary opened the scoring in the 2nd half with his 2nd of the game followed by Bradley before Zachary scored his 3rd of the game. With the game going Woodham’s way, the team was changed around a bit with some forwards and backs swapping positions to give them an experience of playing somewhere new. Campion made a good break down their left wing and just about managed to get past our ‘forward winger’ with Archie catching him at the 5m line but his momentum took him forward and he touched down in the corner.

From the restart Woodham kept going forward and an off load from Max saw Ryan battle through the middle to score the visitors 9th try. Adam crossed the line for his 2nd try and the final score was 50-5 to Woodham.

Take nothing away from Campion; they are a new side this year and they had some good moments which put the visitors under pressure at times and they never gave up. A few more seasons and this match would be a much closer affair.

Good team work from the U13’s today, still areas to improve on and ‘consistency’ and ‘belief’ are the words for the rest of the season.