Combe add Gs to their defeated

A game against league toppers Westcombe Park was bound to be a good one to watch, and with the scores standing at 5-7 after the first quarter. it looked to be a close one.
A second try for the visitors along with a second successful kick for the extra points kept Combe with a score advantage, but Gs first try was well worth watching again.

With ball won in mid-field, and switched left, good hands sent it out to Montgomery who delayed his pass out to the wing just right to make time for Temi Okenla to chase round to touch down.

A third wayward kick from the tee and the scores were close at 10-14 at the break.

A good disciplined performance by Gs saw them give away a handful of penalties in the first half while the visitors count was up around the fifteen mark.

Gs had matched and for periods bettered their opposition at the set scrummage, but their usual good ball supply from the line-out was not firing this week.

A clash of heads saw Gs lose their big lock forward Remus Necula thirteen minutes after the restart and a minute later Jamie Forsyth was handed ten minutes in the sin bin for cumulative offences by the team.

Then to add insult to injury, Sox Stevens was sent to the sin bin two minutes later reducing Gs down to thirteen players.

While the numbers were unbalanced and for the first time in the game the visitors had the upper hand at the scrums, the referee awarded a questionable penalty try to lift Combe away to 10-24.

Gs were continuing to compete and were looking the XV that deserved better support from the official, but that was not to be as the bonus point try came from a pass that was not less than two metres forward.

A good conversion lifted the difference to 10-31.

When Gs were back to full strength it was more defending than attacking for the Combe line, but the fight back ran out of time.

A Ziggy Stevens try from a close quarter's drive put G's third try on the board, but it was too little too late and the final score was 15-31, with Gs adding nothing to their league tally but they did deserve more.