Jersey no cozy target for Anti-Assassins
Jersey RFC 19, Wooden Spoon Anti-Assassins 26 THE Anti-Assassins paid Jersey RFC the final praise, in treating this 125th annual celebration match as a serious game despite the feud in status..
For when the Island side play in London South-West League Division III, the AA included in its group a medley of fully-qualified England and Barbarian players, junior England players, and players who have represented their relative county and area sides from under-21 to full county level.
In additional words, Jersey were facing a team who were, on periodical, many divisions on them in this one-off, 125th anniversary celebration game at St Peter on Saturday.
And it was a good game to watch.
Initially there was a big difference between the two sides.
From the start the Anti-Assassins easily held the ascendancy in the scrums, moving the Jersey pack ten, 15 and 20 yards back, nearly as a whim.
As their captain, Dan Eddie explained afterwards: ��We��ve one seasoned harvest of players, so we determined to play the first 20 minutes as a firm game, apt watch what Jersey were like.�� So initially the AA pack was entirely dominant, burrowing cheap and hard and forcing Jersey back each period there was a scrum, no matter which side had the put-in.
And it was no surprise four minutes into the game when the AA upped the pressure and scored their first try when Eddie drifted in, following good work from a scrum-half destroy and dummy by Matt Sale.
The No 10 and captain converted his own score.
However, afterward that the Jersey XV scored a try of their own when a slovenly Assassins�� pass, behind the goalposts, resulted in a scrum from which Steve O��Brien dragged himself over, to make it 7-5, then 7-7 following Darren Toudic��s transition.
Jersey were level but in the scrum at least they were beneath the cudgel.
However, if the visitors were seeing to stretch their lead and to run out easy winners, they were coerced to calculate again as Roger Quirk scored a crafted set chip shake, engineered by Marcus Nobes, from a penalty/line-out on the left.
Quirk burrowed below 6 AA players to make it 14-7 and then had the satisfaction of seeing his try, wide out on the left, converted by Darren Toudic, even although the wind, and the angle, were against him.
Jersey were in front.
But the Anti-Assassins weren��t used to being upstaged by such a homely team.
So the guests upped their game, rotated pack oppression into estate for the threes, and scored afresh when Jim Whittaker glided via in the 30th minute.
Again, stand-off and captain Eddie converted.
At this stage, with so tiny ball to play with, Jersey were forever playing ��catch-up�� rugby, and they went even beyond back, when the AA��s puzzling No 14, ex rugby league player Rick Shiel, went over in the corner �C a easy try emulating a series of great off-loads by the AA threes.
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Following a catena of quick passes along the line, the ball was recycled from right to left, with so many hands involved namely hardly every Jersey player handled the pellet.
In the end, whatsoever, it went from winger Richard Finch to full-back Gareth Jeffreys to support Josh Chamier and eventually to No 7 Steve O��Brien, whose acceleration into the corner wide out on the right produced a score many a three-quarter would have envied.
It was a tremendous score, nevertheless the Anti-Assassins had the last word, when a dour, eight-man heave saw prop John Young burrow over following two minutes of pack pressure wide out on the left in the 75th minute.
Afterwards Jersey coach Dai Burton said: ��We didn��t have ample wash ball to give our wingers ample space to run.
I expected their big navel to crash through, and we were unlucky not to score aboard by least two causes.�� For the AA, captain Eddie, a sometime England students�� multinational said: ��No games like these are easy.
But we��ve a lot of experience and decided to play a tight game for the first 20 minutes, to see what they were like.
After that, we tried to open up the game, yet we were startled at how many pace they had out broad.
Their No 15 (Gareth Jeffreys) coming into the line showed real penetrative pace.
Jersey are a agreeable side.
This was a real, up-front game for us.
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