Sunday, 20th February 2005
Stanford under 12's six game unbeaten run came to an end on Sunday when they came up against a tough Eton Manor side. At half -time the visitors were 10-7 up and in the second half stretched their lead to win 24-14, after two breakaway tries by the away side. Jay Ingle and Geoff Smith scored tries for Stanford, with conversions from Bradley Burrows and Jake Barrand. Player of the day was Ryan Goulding-Thomas.
Stanford under 10's first game was closely fought and ended in a 5-5 draw, and featured some super tackling by Max Damm and Mark Sullivan. Stanford's try was scored by Lewis Brunger. In their second game, Stanford dominated with strong running from backs and forwards, the final score 15-5 to the home side. Tries were scored by Jamie Lake, Mark Sullivan and Sam Dixon.
The under 9’s played two matches against their great rivals, who they had met in the Essex final last year. In the first half of the first match, Stanford struggled to secure the ball at the breakdown, and Manor’s fast backs punished any turnovers to lead 20-0. In the second half, Stanford showed character and spirit to come back for a final score of 25-10 to the visitors, after tries by Dominic McDonald and Sean Bunney. In the second match, Stanford again started slowly and were losing 10-0 at half time, but came back strongly with 2 tries by Captain Dominic McDonald and 2 for winger Daniel O’Flaherty, to win 20-10. The commitment and effort shown by forwards James Wade, Connor Gillam, Connor Lalieu, Louis Webb and Ryan Quinn was tremendous and the tackling was again fierce, especially by fly-half Dominic McDonald and centre George Taylor. This allowed scrum-half Liam Page to improve the supply of ball to the backs in the second match.
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