Fixture

Nelson RFC | 1st Team 14 - 12 Risca RFC | 1st Team
Joe Carlin
1 Try
Owain Biddiscombe
1 Conversion
Adam Paul Price
1 Try

Match Report
04 April 2016 / Team News

Nelson 14 - Risca 12

Match report by Clive James

 

Home supporters leaving The Park,Nelson on Saturday afternoon were heard saying''How did we win that?'' That summed up the game that Risca should have won but instead they came away with only a losing bonus point going down 14pts.-12.Late replacements from the original team saw Craig Thomas coming in on the wing and Adam Price to the centre..

Risca in the first 15minutes dominated but could not turn the pressure into points and then on 18minutes against the run of play a missed tackle on the halfway line saw the home team open the scoring with a converted try.The next 20minutes again saw more pressure being exerted by the visitors and eventually after a driving maul flanker Carlin touched down the conversion failed.The game then see sawed between both halves and during this period saw scrum half Rhys Meredith made a searing break from a tapped penalty which unfortunately came to nothing and then dangerous wing Ryan Wilson not getting a pass from captain Mark Bale which surely would have brought a score.Within 2mins.of the 2nd.half Risca extended there lead when Ryan Wilson caught the ball from the kick off made ground and after a number of phases of play the ball came back to centre Adam Price who came in powerfully at pace and crashed over for a very good try which was converted by Biddy.Nelson then came back strongly and put Risca under pressure for a long period and eventually the defence held and Risca got themselves back into the home teams 22m.only for wrong options seeing Nelson again take the lead when a dropped ball in mid field saw the Nelson wing hack through to get a converted try to go 14pts.-12 in front.No.8 Todd James then came off injured and on came Harvey Reader the youth team 2nd.row for his Risca debut while Geraint Rowlands came on for Callum Anderson.For the remainder of the game Risca battered the home teams line but couldn't get over for the winning score.Again as in previous games wrong options and wrong decisions cost Risca the win.

Next week Ynysybwl will be the visitors.

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