We talk about 1871 Green Army and today we took on a veritable army of Wasps who arrived at Vallis Way with 24 players; frankly they could have brought the whole hive today and the 2’s would have despatched the entire invading hoard! We talk now about building EMP and the warm up saw that energy build to a crescendo and the planned fast start we are looking for this season.

1871 fast started, in minute 2 Kyle break from 50m with Pricey in support excellent give and receive passing cut the Wasps defence apart and Pricey went in to touch down. Minute 4 and Wasps KO
fielding by Danny O Sullivan with a great carry through poor wasps tackling put us in the 22 and Wasps under siege, fast breakdown and Kyle found the hole in their defence to go in for his try.

Throughout the match 1871 proved sharper in thought more physical in both set piece, carries and dominant tackling. The pack provided excellent set-piece ball in both scrum and line out enabling backs to bring flowing rugby and width to proceedings. Alex Kritikos (MotM) very well deserved was the human wrecking ball with his carrying, breaking tackles, making big hits and generally terrorising the oppo all afternoon claimed his try with great support line running. Parky’s
3 try haul came from his ability to play to the refs whistle seizing upon knock on advantages plus ghosting through gaps and effective kick chase support. Kav the dove, led the 2”s today and led well. He too seized upon a penalty advantage with a quick tap and go to bag his try but did nominate himself for (DoTD) trying his hand at kicking from hand. (Stick to the adverts!!)

Kayci and Ruairi both went in from set piece platform followed by well executed back line moves.

Wasps had only two opportunities one was from a missed tackle and the other was in the last two minutes where we decided for some reason to try and run out of the dungeon instead of clearing which duly put us under siege pressure and despite a massive committed goal line tackle defence; I feel a little unconscious bias from the ref here played a part in giving something to Wasps.

All day 1871 fired wave upon wave of EMP at Wasps, the offloading, handling and interplay between Forwards and Backs proved too much and it was especially pleasing to see us play the game in the right areas of the battlefield for the majority of the 80 mins.

Pre-season and September Training has seen 1871 grow exponentially and 1871 are sitting in their rightful spots at the top of the leagues, bring on October!!

The Old Adage:
Train Hard, Winnings Easy!
Train Easy, Winnings Hard!
Well done one and all,
Eddie