Church 7s 2009
I'm afraid there are no videos or photos from this tournament as I totally forgot about it.
This was our first time at the Church 7s, and with 25 teams playing in the social we knew it would be a tough competition.
First Group Game vs Ubiquitous Um Bongo 19-17 Win
The first game was against a totally unknown team. It didn't start well when they scored within the first 30 seconds when they spun the ball wide to their gas man who stepped inside the defense and scored under the posts. From there we took control and scored 3 times before half time (Smithy, Greenaway, Nikki) to make the score 19-7. It should have made for an easy second half but we did our best to throw the game away with stupid play, including a yellow card for Archer. Luckily we held on to win by 2 points.
Second Group Game vs Tregoran Titans 14-7 Win
The next game was against a Welsh team who had won their first game 45-0 so we knew it would be tough. We improved from the first game defensively, though offensively it wasn't quite there yet. I can;t remember the order of scoring but we ended up winning slightly more comfortably than the score suggests. Danny, who had been delayed and didn't turn up till half time, strolled on at the start of half time, took the kick off and simply ran down the middle of the pitch between 2 men, did a reverse pass for Archer to score, and looked at us as if to say 'whats all the fuss, this 7s game is easy'. (Scorers:Archer, Greenaway)
Third Group Game vs Mutz Nutz 45-7 Win
Atlast we managed to play some decent rugby. 14-7 at half time it was a tight game against a good team, but in the second half we scored 5 tries and we looked more like the team we were use to. A hi-light was Dannys trick of avoiding a defender by grabbing the post and spinning 360 before scoring.
Fourth Group Game vs Windsor 7's 33-5 Win
The last game was against Windsor who hadn't won a game so we knew it should be fairly easy. So it proved, though once again we seemed to loose our way and the standard of rugby wasn't that good. Still, we had won the group and into the quarter finals.
Quarter Finals vs RAM Stallions 7-26 Loss
The less said about this the better. Although RAM Stallions are a very good team it was still a game we really should have won. The probably was we didn't warm up or preper and it seemed we had the mind set that we would easily win. 4 first half tried from RAM stallions effectively killed the game for us. The second half was an improvement but it was too little too late and we were out of the tournament.
This was the first time in 11 tournament we hadn't reached a final. Although we were missing a few keys playes including out top scorer it was still a tournament I believe we could and should have won. Hopefully this is a lesson learnt and we will improve for Bournemouth.