Whitgift vs. The Southport Scghool
With a meet of 630, many of the boys were not looking forward to ‘Big Friday’. The boys knew the day would consist of a huge amount of travelling followed by a very intense game of rugby against T.S.S.
The journey from Sydney airport to Brisbane went well, with Harry Ledger FINALLY finding his ‘walking’ passport. From Brisbane we headed down the coast towards the Gold Coast. On arriving at Southport we had a quick wander around the school grounds and a small team meeting, in which someone (Harry Ledger) realised he had put his bank card in the bin on the coach which had left (this was few hours since finding his passport, for a captain some would say a poor show on such a tour).
The game started slowly for Whitgift, lacking communication in defence and losing the physical battle in the breakdown area. This lead to Southport going 7-0 up from an out wide try. Southport were playing good rugby out wide and through a huge mismatch the opposition scored again and put us 14-0 down. With this score staying until half-time a big team talk from Wilko got the boys prepared for a rough, tough and old fashioned second half. The boys got right into the face of the Australians and the Southport school boys started to take a back step. This lead to Max Anglin fly-hacking on a knock-on by a Southport player, chasing and hacking again until Jordan Lewis managed a well executed pick-up to score, this was then converted by Will Page to make the score 14-7. Despite the boys trying their hardest to score we couldn’t. The game came to a disappointing 14-7 loss for Whitgift. With a few dubious decisions from the referee, including a yellow card for our Captain (England Captain, Harlequins EPDG, Voted ‘Best Blonde Locks’ of the Sutton and Epsom area 2011) Harry Ledger. Some would say these decisions changed the flow of the game and ultimately the score.
All in all a very pleasing performance in many ways, just a shame we couldn’t get the result we wanted.
James margetson
Take Rugby Holidays and you'll have real great fun watching the matches.
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