Womens Dev XV Turn on the Style at Brickfields

The first half was an even contest with both sides willing to run the ball but equalling willing to put in the defensive effort needed to protect their own line. Punch and counter punch resulted in the RN going into the halftime break with a 17-10 lead. 

HT RN Womens Dev XV 17 – 10 Plymouth Combination 

It was in the second half that the RN fully took charge of the contest and pulled away from the opposition in some style. A mixture of brilliant individual skill and running saw a number of long-range solo scores mixed with a proportionate number of well taken team tries. The passing and offloading for the team tries was very impressive, particularly this early in the sides season. 

As well as the single handed and team efforts to score the Teams Management Group will certainly have been impressed with many other facets of the squads play. 

Lines of running, mixing the point of attack and of particular note the ability to both relieve pressure and gain field position through excellent tactical kicking out of hand bodes well as the team moves through the season. Equally the high-quality line out work from the RN forwards allowed the team the attacking platform that they gratefully took advantage of. 

The fruits of these efforts resulted in the RN scoring 33 unanswered points in the second half to run out as 50 – 10 winners. The only blot on the copybook being a yellow card which this writer thought was a bit harsh as a player from either side was involved in scuffle that resulted in the card. 

Some huge positives for the side as the season progresses with their next fixture against HM Prison Service on 25th November.

FT RN Womens Dev XV 50 – 10 Plymouth Combination 

W Dev XV: M Tellis, A Puttock, E Stanyer; L Farrelly, L Rice; A Darley*, R Staples, E Jay; G Crossley (VC), M Douglass (C), S West, H Foulkes, S Burgos, G Machell, H Edwards.

Replacements: L Lomax-Pay, J Pay, M Musgrave, ⁠H Lumley, A Taylor.