Saturday 15th January 2011

Copsewood 15 - 27 Coventrians Mids 5 West (South)

On a bog of a pitch Covents produced their best performance of the season led by a rampant pack and an outstanding back row of Tom Carter, Neil Walters and Adam Booth.

We led after 20 minutes with a penalty from Loz and then after a tremendous move in the backs Adam Booth ripped the ball from their scrum half and dotted down from the resultant scrum.

Copsewood then clawed their way back and drew level at half time 10-10
Straight away in the 2nd half old man Giz popped up in the centre and created an overlap for Screech to score his maiden try for the club in the corner. We then gifted Copsewood an equalising try after a series of errors so now 15-15 with 15 minutes left.

Once more quality ball was given to our backs and left Rohan 35 metres out with about 4 men to beat which he did with ease and then went back and did it again and dotted down under the posts. Loz put the conversion wide to make sure the spectators were kept on edge to the end.

Finally with 4 minutes left Copsewood dropped the ball in open play 20 yards from their line. Captain Courageous DJ picked the ball up with an open run in to the line. He proceeded to break all records for the slowest sprint over 20 yards in history but managed to squirm over the line despite being caught by their prop who gave DJ a mere 20 yard start but still caught him up 5 yards from the line. Loz converted from the touch-line leaving the final score at 27-15 a bonus point win.

Great game and a well deserved win.

Thanks to Matt Hancox for the photos available here