Match report Bicester 'A' v Marlow 'A' - 25 Jan

Bicester ‘A’ 20 v Marlow ‘A’ 0

The first meeting for this age group between Bicester and Marlow saw the ‘A’s make it 10 wins a row for the U14s squad, running out convincing winners but making heavy work of it at times. The Marlow pack were a strong unit which the Bicester pack could not resist fronting up to. Unfortunately this resulted in too many carries by the forwards into contact, and the backs not seeing enough ball. The Bicester backs looked superior, but with infrequent and sometimes badly presented ball, were rushed in their execution. On the good side James Grosvenor led the pack aggressively throughout from No8, the pack did get the better of Marlow, scrum half Mats Venning played well with good kicks, distribution and taking blind side options, and the backs did score two very good tries.

The tries:

Henry Gayler put up a high kick deep into the Marlow 22 towards the right hand corner, a great take by Antony Iveson was off loaded to Henry out wide to score in the corner.

Hooker Ollie Cavey took a scrum against the head which James G picked up, he came close to scoring from a great effort having broken the line and kicked ahead twice but just could not make the touch down. However he did get on the score sheet soon afterwards, Ollie Cassidy counter attacked from a clearance kick and having done the hard work fed James for a simple finish. HT:10-0

The backs best move was called and executed by the centres from set piece, a scrum on the Marlow 10m line. Perfect quick ball from Mats through Charllie Bethell to Henry who put the switch pass inside to Dan Rowland at pace, Dan broke the line and there was no stopping him on his way to scoring Bicesters third.

Forwards Jordan Hirons and Conor White drove through the Marlow pack to set up Ed Mawdsley for a close range try in the closing minute.

Try Scorers: Henry Gayler, James Grosvenor, Dan Rowland and Ed Mawdsley

Players Man of Match: James Grosvenor

Coaches Man of Match: Mats Venning