Keith vs New Brighton
Ground: Bob Deans 4
Time: 2-45pm

Team List

Forwards
Matt YATES
Darren MOKE
Phil HUGHES
Hayden ROBINSON
Ian LOCKWOOD
Jaye JOYCE
Hayden SMITH
Barry GIBBS

Backs
Ian COWAN
Nick BROWN
Paul CRICHTON
Rob FOLEY
Stuart HERRIOT
Leyton HUNT
Gary RICHARDS

Reserves
Phil KEARNS
Jamin PIPER
Stephen MARSHALL
Dean LORY
Greg BROWN
Brendyn LAWSON
Kelly HOANI
Kelvin SCOTT
Johnny BAIRD
Colin GRAVETT


Points: 5-0, 5-5, 5-7, 10-7, 10-12, 15-12, 17-12, 22-12, 24-12, 24-17, 24-19, 29-19, 34-19, 39-19

Tries: Ian COWAN, Stuart HERRIOT, Jaye JOYCE, Rob FOLEY, Phil KEARNS, Darren MOKE, PENALTY TRY
Conv: Nick BROWN (2)
Pen:

Player of the Day: Scott THOMPSON

Photographs here: No Photographs were taken


Much of the pre-game talk was about how New Brighton used to be when we played them last; a little bit underhand and somewhat reluctant to play within the rules. They, like Otautahi a few weeks ago, proved that talk wrong.
Good hard solid forward play and attack and defence charaterised the first 20 minutes with neither side giving any quarter.
As you can see from the scoring list, forwards dominated the try tally, but a highlight, and a very welcome highlight at that, was Dirk screaming down the sideline, bumping opposition players off with little loss of pace, and diving down for his first try in seven years. The sideline erupted with glee and the entire team was filled with a warm glow and all around general love for our fellow Keiths. It was either that, or we were all hallucinating.
there was a modicum of doubt about Jaye's grounding of the ball, and even more doubt about Nick's conversion attempt, but that was all sorted at half time with Jaye getting his first keith try and Nick losing a 2 pointer.

The second half started with us 12 points ahead but that was quickly eaten away by New Brighton and there was talk about killing the ref if we eventually lost by a last minute penalty, but our try scoring started up again and the end

reult was not in doubt.
And talking of the ref, he wasn't as bad as some, but he had odd timekeeping practices and a funny way of deciding who was having a penalty. But as i said, our try scoring started up again and the end reult was not in doubt so that didn't matter as it may have done against other opponants.

Unit turned up. That was nice to have a solid front rower, but by that time, New Brighton had lost too many players, so it was Golden Oldies scrums from then on. Dean went on and was almost immediately a target for some biffo, almost mostly without cause, but thankfully it wasn't him that ended up in the bin for 10 minutes.

The clubrooms were full for club day which was great and Kenny had another erection which he proudly told us all about. And we decided that 6 dozen bottles before 7pm was a good effort.
Bring on the Catholics next week, if they don't have a change of heart and convert to the true faith.