Albion's youths followed up a good
win away at Humberside last week by doubling up their league victories and
defeating Lindley from Huddersfield.
With the new additions to the
squad this year there has been a settling in period for the players to get to
know one another but the team are beginning to gel and played some excellent
attacking rugby in the main yesterday.
Ronnie Hodgson, Andy Feather and
Matt Steel were at the forefront of much of the early attacks. It was all Albion
in the first half with John Papaila opening the scoring in the corner. Good
groundwork by the forwards saw good support play from Richard Windle rewarded as
he scored his first try for this season. Albion relaxed and allowed Lindley back
in to the game but good defence from Mark Smith, Scott Bellamy and Nicky Lister
made sure the Swifts did not score.
Albion continued to throw the ball
around and Colin Pickles cut through to score and as Lindley tired towards half
time Hodgson and Lister both added fine individual efforts. Two conversions were
added to make the half time score 24 - 0 to the Albion.
As with last week the half time
talk seemed to send the team to sleep and from looking dead and buried Lindley
were gifted two soft tries by a sloppy home defence one of which had the goal
added to leave it at 24 - 10 and the Swifts thinking they might salvage
something from a game they had never really been in.
The Albion defence consolidated
itself again and began to dominate the Huddersfield side again. Good runs from
Richard Dibbins and Mark Smith began to get the Huddersfield side on the back
foot and allow Lister and Steel the room to put Jason Battle and Alistair
Beaumont in for the final scores of the game. The goals were not added and the
scoring finished at 32 - 10.
Andy Feather was the pick of the
bunch for the home side followed closely by Ronnie Hodgson, Richard Windle and
John Papaila.
| Pos | Expr1 | Profile | Tries | Goals | DG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colin Pickles | Profile | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | John Paipala | Profile | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Jason Battle | Profile | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Alistair Beaumont | Profile | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Adam Beaumont | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Ronnie Hodgson | Profile | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Nicky Lister | Profile | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | Mark Smith | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Andy Feather | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Richard Windle | Profile | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Scott Bellamy | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Thomas Ogden | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Matthew Steel | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | James Robinson | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Alex Pearson | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Richard Dibbins | Profile | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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