Cumnock v Ardrossan 25/11/19

Cumnock RFC p5 team travelled to Ardrossan to take on Ardrossan Accies. Being a very cold Sunday afternoon games kicked off at 12.30pm. Playing four 8 minute periods in a game. 6 Cumnock players turned out for today meaning no subs, But that has never stopped them from putting in everything they have.

Kicking off the first 8 minute quarter of today's game. Cumnock opened up the scoring for today. Week on week has seen the team progress when in possession of the ball with each player finding their strengths on how to get through their opponents defencive lines. On 2 separate occasions Aron using his strengths by pressuring the Accies defence he drew in defending players quickly offloading the ball which resulted in Dylan and Jack crossing the try line to score. Today was no different, with some quick charges and skillful stepping to break through the Accies defence to get over the try line. Cumnock were a little slow on making tackles to start which resulted in the first 8 minutes ending a tight 5-4 to Cumnock. Dylan the top try scorer of this period felt sick and had to come off. A set back to our p5s in the game but this didn't impact our p5s from having fun and keeping minds on today's game. Try scorers Aron, Jack, Dylan (2) and Tony

Onto the second period. Harry one of the Ardrossan players volunteered to join Cumnock in place of Dylan for the next 8 minutes.
Cumnock had stepped up after the first break. Attacking was no different from the first quarter of the game. But when in defence making tackles and keeping pressure on the Accies resulted in some handling errors from the opponents and on occasions picking up some loose balls and carrying them over the Line. For example Kenzie when putting pressure on Ardrossan he made a double tackle which resulted in too much pressure on the attackers who lost the ball and being picked up by Jack and going onto score. Cumnock scoring 5 to Accies 2. Overall so far Cumnock winning 11-6.
Try scorers, Jack (3), Tony, Kenzie and Harry

Next period Accies player Rory swapped with Harry to play with Cumnock. We saw some more improvement in Cumnocks performance where at times the Cougars defence was pushing the Accies back a good distance. Tackling seemed to be improving as the game went on. But with Ardrossan having some skilled players, Cumnock could not stop every opposing player from scoring a try. In this period it ended 5-3 to Cumnock, over all 16-9. With the 5 Cumnock players scoring a try each in this period.

Onto the final 8 minutes with Callum from Ardrossan stepping in to play for Cumnock. With Cumnocks performance remaining persistent into this quarter, there was not much that could have been said during a team talk in the break. Other than to keep up the good work. Kenzie, Tony, John and Jack scoring tries in the last 8 minutes and Accies scoring 1. Another hard game and a well deserved win for Cumnock p5s today. Ending the game 20-10 to Cumnock.