A heroic loss

On the face of it the result looks like an easy win for Kingsbridge on their home ground. Being top of the table with only Okehampton as any serious threat to their promotion chances a win was important, well all wins are important but some more that others.
Just to recap for those who have not been following things. So far this season the first game against Kingsbridge went down as a moral win to us by 19~13, unfortunately with ten minutes to go the referee pulled up injured and the game was abandoned. What the outcome might have been is speculation, the leagues secretary decided that with ten minutes to go and only six points in it Kingsbridge could have taken it. The other view is that with a player in the sin bin and their game plan also in the bin it was likely that Services would have held on.
Still a replay was ordered and they dually won it by 29~0, a decent bonus point margin.
The second match, the away game was a close do by any standards, close enough that the home supporters must have been getting a little nervous.
It seems that our defence was for sixty five minutes almost completely watertight for the score stood at a desperately close 7~3 to them with our three coming from a Matt Anstis penalty.
A single try by us and we might have held on for a win, however to be honest according to our players we did not look like scoring very often.
Those sixty five minutes of mostly defending took it out of the team and in the last ten minutes Kingsbridge employed their not so secret weapon, the pitch that slopes sideways down to the club house. Starting from the lower side they sent the ball quickly to the top side winger who apparently is faster than a fast thing and by the time our players, weary from all the defending, had got to the top he was celebrating a try with his mates.
It seems that their fitness has done for a number of teams in this way this season.
So in the end a score line slightly better than the previous game and the fact of holding them to 7~3 for most of the game does the players great credit and one they should be pleased about.
Next week Cullompton at home.