The Flow of the first team game.
5~0, 7 mins.
5~5, 12 mins. T. Elliott Pocknell.
10~5. 15 mins.
15~5. 18 mins.
20~5. 23 mins.
25~5. 26 mins.
32~5. 30. mins.
Half Time.
37~5. 43 mins.
37~12, 51 mins. T. Callum Arnold, C. Billy Orchard.
42 ~ 12. 55 mins.
49~12. 58 mins.
56~12. 60 mins.
63~12. 63 Min.
68 ~ 12. 67 Min.
75~12. 71 min.
Y/C Henry Gascoyne. 74 Min.
Y/C Clifton. 75 Min.
Y/C Clifton. 76 Min.
Full time.

Note. Fergus Wood did not play; he was injured before the game. So we played with only four replacements.
It was a good thing they were not kicking their conversions; by my count, they missed eight.

1. Callum Arnold. Hartley Dental Practice Ltd
2. Rob Walsh. NESC Ltd.
3. James McFarlane. Manor Garage Plymouth Ltd.
4. Alex Gibson.
5. Harry Hayman. Rex Down, wholesale fish merchants.
6. Elliott Lupson. SA Safety Ltd.
7. Henry Gascoyne. Hunts cider
8. Tom Davies. Pantheon Plymouth
9. Ben Whysall. Derek Windsor.
10. Billy Orchard. Taproom
11. Charlie Over. Roast Coffee Ltd.
12. Sam Brown. Pantheon, Plymouth.
13. Dan Lilley. DSRFC Ex-players.
14. Ewan Piercy. Media Bulldog.
15. Dan Goldstone
16. Josh Martin. Jerry Josee and Ocean City sounds.
17.Ethan Hilland. Services Design Solutions Ltd.
18. Elliott Pocknell.
19. Will Tanswell.

Head coach. Ben Russell.

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The Second report.
Kingsbridge at home, they lie in fourth place in the league while we are eleventh.
This was never going to be easy, nor was it.
The team had changed quite a bit with some players going to the firsts to cover injuries and unavailabilities, Elliott Lupson on Friday evening, and, of course, our own injuries and unavailabilities. I would guess that we lost nine first choice players through moving up, five and injuries four.
It was fortunate that the threes’ game against Brixton III was off, Brixton pulled out, we were able to pull some players from there, for example, Dan Chugg, who had an excellent game.

Make no mistake about it, Kingsbridge are a good side, and it was a good twenty-five minutes before they managed to get going and show their abilities.
Their scrum was all over us, pushing us back seriously every time bar one, and we were penalised a number of times at them.
Their line out was good, though Will Pooley did steal their throw once. Ours was a shade uncertain. We were penalised for ‘Not straight’ a number of times.
Our tackling was good, it needed to be, and afterwards Manager Dickie Duffield was really pleased with the commitment of all the players with a number of third team players moving up to fill the gaps. “We will come good,” he said.

We started well, attacking hard and fast, forcing Kingsbridge to defend for all they were worth. Then on minute thirteen we opened the scoring, breaking out of our own half with Sam Fincham making the yards from our twenty-two to near theirs, tackled he gave the ball to Billy Sutton who scored part way in from the turnstile corner. Leighton Stark converted and we were 7-0 up.
Minutes later, Kingsbridge got well into our twenty-two, with one of their forwards making a clean dash for our line, fortunately for us, the referee blew for a Kingsbridge infringement and we kicked away.
Then they got a penalty and kicked and took a line out five yards out, fortunately their throw was not straight so we had the scrum, under severe pressure going backwards, Luke Stannard managed to get the ball and drove out a decent way.
It was not until minute twenty-five that they really got going, even then we were stifling their play.
They got to our line again and from a scrum, with us under severe pressure, thought that they had scored “Double movement” said the referee.
They had three more scrums on our line from penalties, each time, bar the last, we defended our line one way or another. On the fourth scrum they did manage to get over for the score and to convert it. 7~7 on thirty-two minutes.
You can see from the above that we defended really well for thirty-two minutes, keeping them out, you can see why Dickie was so pleased.
We had a penalty chance mid-field and just in from halfway, the Leighton Stark kick just went wide of the seaward post.
Then when half-time was upon us, Kingsbridge scored. They got to our line by the scoreboard and went for the line, which we defended, they then went back in field to the stand side attacking the line every few yards but with no more success than the first time, but eventually the last pass put the winger over and in a little way.
Their kicker lined up the kick, stepped back, Sam Fincham sprinted out, “He’s taken a step back ref, he’s taken a step back ref” he shouted, the referee clearly agreed with him; however, despite Sam’s heroic effort the kick went over. 7~14.
Then about four minutes into injury time they got to our line, their attacker got over, I think was rolled over but on to his back, couldn’t touch down but one of his mates must have taken the ball from him and scored. The conversion went over. 7~21 at the break.
Aside from our problems with the scrums, in our enthusiasm we are giving away too many penalties and it is helping Kingsbridge to stay in the lead.
Apart from the last five minutes of the half, I would say we had an excellent first half really taking it to them or defending stoutly.

The second half started with us kicking off and playing towards the entrance end. The restart was very good and we managed to collect our starting kick and attack them. That came to nothing.
The first score of the half was a penalty to Kingsbridge following a line-out in our half, awarded it mid-field and outside our twenty-two. They opted to take the three points. At the time, I thought it the boring option as they were clearly on the up at this point and should have shown more adventure. 7~24.
Maybe, on the other hand, at 7~21, they were afraid of us, and that one seven-pointer by us would really have put us back in the game, so three points would protect their lead.
We were the next to score when we attacked. From a line-out to them near the scoreboard, we must have stolen their ball and put it to the backs. The final pass to Brad Lumley on the wing was a long one, and I thought he had overrun it, but no, he took it and sped in to score by the flag.
The side-line conversion by Leighton Stark was the best conversion of the game. So now the score stood at 14~24, and we were back in it. Kingsbridge's three point decision looked to have paid off.
On thirty-three minutes, they got to our line and over, only to be held up. The referee took them back as he was playing advantage. They attacked our line again and after about the fifth thrust squeezed over by a few inches. The conversion went over. 14~31.
By this time, I was at the wrong end of the pitch to see what happened in the last ten minutes, but they managed to score two seven-pointers to make it 14~45 at the end.
I suspect that the effort we put in over the first half and most of the second took it out of us, and they took advantage of it.
So there we are. Kingsbridge are a good team and deserved to win, and despite the shuffling of players, injuries: four first-choice players, and unavailabilities, the team did themselves and the club proud, really giving Kingsbridge a stiff game.

1. Mike Kelly.
2. Stu Giles.
3. George Burnard.
4. Skull KariKaritu
5. Sam Winfield.
6. Will Pooley.
7. Cam McDonald.
8. Luke Stannard.
9. Billy Sutton.
10. Issac Venner.
11. Brad Lumley.
12. Leighton Stark.
13. Jacob Price.
14. Sam Fincham.
15. Flynn Reeves.
16. Alex Lynch.
17. Dan Chugg.
18. Harry Enticknap.
Managers: Mr Dickie Duffield Esq. Steve Hilland.

Note: I am yet to get hold of the final team sheet; there have been so many changes.

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The Thirds match against Brixham III was off when Brixham pulled out. That leaves us third in the Paul Harris Devon merit table.

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The Colts match report. Colts Post Another Win
The Colts won their second Devon Merit table clash away at South Molton 14 - 54.

After an uncomfortable start under early pressure in our 22, we calmed ourselves and exited to half way. After a few minutes to and fro in the midfield, Ashton Powell opened the scoring wide out on the left after some slick handling in the backs.
0 - 5.
Shortly afterwards, South Molton capitalised on a poor decision from us at a midfield penalty to touch down under the posts and add the extras to nudge ahead 7 - 5.
We then settled into our team structure and played some quick expansive rugby and it wasn’t long before it paid off. Ashton finishing off another sweeping move and Olly Flowers adding the extras.
7 - 12.
Straight from kick-off we attacked again, phase after phase and eventually Molts ran out of defenders with Cohan Robinson dotting down and Olly again adding the conversion to make it
7 - 19.
We started to click as a team and played some quick structured rugby which produced several chances. To their credit, Molts defended well but just couldn’t close us down. Eventually, Olly skipped through a tired defence and added the conversion to close the half
7 - 26.
A few changes at half-time and the strong bench didn’t take long to make their mark. Some good phases from the forwards and a sharp backs move saw Max Pennington slice through the defence to dot down under the sticks, Seth Stephenson adding the conversion to extend the lead 7 - 33.
Straight from the restart, the ball was moved quickly to Logan Early who with his first touch, impressively out-gassed the defence to score from his own half leaving Seth an easy conversion.
7 - 40.
Now fully into our stride, it was one-way traffic for a while. Molts did all they could in defence but our ruck speed and ball movement was just too much to handle. Emerson Andrews got the touchdown for try of the match which involved virtually the whole team from our own 22. Seth adding the extras to make it 7 - 47.
Molts then threw everything at us and kept us pinned in our 22 for phase after phase of forward carries. We defended well but eventually they rumbled over from short range and converted for a well-deserved try. 14 - 47.
With the last play of the game, Molts spilled the ball in our half and Logan scooped it up and again outpaced everyone to the try line, leaving Seth to seal an emphatic win on the road 14 - 54.
Happy coaches!!!
Onward….. Moley