Fixture

Our second league game of the season saw us travel down the road to Skewen. There was a bit of disruption before the game but a strong 15 took the field. The first 5 min belonged to us, we threw the gauntlet down to Skewen and piled into them from the off. Unfortunately the next 10 min didn't go to plan. Firstly we were on the attack deep in the Skewen half but one of their backs picked off a pass from us and raced under the posts. Minutes later a seismic collision between full back Joe Spencer and winger Shane Rogers saw Joe limping off with a leg injury and seconds later centre Gareth Durham went off with an ankle injury. It was time to regroup but Skewen took full advantage of our minor disarray scoring a penalty and a converted try. We though were very much still in the game and finished the half with a penalty try, Skewen deciding to bring down our trade mark driving line out illegally. Half time score Seven Sisters 7 - Skewen 17. Apart from that crazy 10 min period where literally nothing went our way, we were still in the contest, first time tackles which let us down last week were being made much more regularly this week, causing Skewen too not really have a full stranglehold of the game. With that confidence in mind it was us who started the strongest of the second period and we were camped predominantly in the bottom right hand corner of the opposition half for long periods of time. With all that pressure to contain Skewen finally cracked. Number 8 Lindsay Jones thundered over from short range for a well deserved try, fly half Bryn Davies converted. Skewen immediately hit back, their fly half ran in from 30m out under the posts and after an innocuous throw from the Skewen hooker following a line out it landed at the tail into their number eights hand and he crashed over by the posts. Score to date Seven Sisters 14 - Skewen 31. The game seemed to be drifting away but we were made of "steely stuff" this sat and never took the foot completely off the gas. Back down we went into our favourite corner of the field and it was big Lindsay Jones who hit a great line crashing over for his second try, taking a few Skewen players with him ! Bryn kicked a great conversion. We suddenly had a new found energy and after a great passage of inter passing play winger Shane Rogers, who was still recovering from his first 5min clattering, beat 3-4 players to score an excellent individual try into the corner. Bryn failed with the extras. We were now just 6 points from a memorable win and it looked possible when flanker Ricky Mitchell flew away from the maul after the restart to find himself one on one with the winger and it was only an excellent tackle by their 14 that snuffed out another try scoring opportunity. The scrum followed and the ref blew up for full time. Phew !! What a cracking game of rugby, it had everything. We can be incredibly proud of that effort in defeat against strong opposition. Challenge now is to take that performance into the home game sat v Swansea uplands.