Silsden Park
Rangers ARLFC
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Anybody leaving this match early would be staggered to hear the final
score. Queensbury totally dominated
this game for fully 50 minutes after a bright start by the very young Cobbydale
side. The scoring opened when Chris
Fell burst through two defenders to score in the corner an unconverted try.
In the play before the try, young Silsden loose forward, Lee Shaw, had to
be taken to hospital with a gash in his head that required stitches.
Silsden had to rely on young new signings, Nicky and Jay Smith coming
straight into the fray. Silsden
pressed hard, and strong runs from prop from Bowness and Doherty forged Silsden
good field position after Queensbury conceded a penalty for abuse to the
referee. On the last tackle, John
Gwilliam dummied to kick, and threw a beautiful pass to stand off John Williams
whose angle of run pierced the Queensbury defence to score under the posts.
Andy Bowness converted to add the extras.
Silsden then seemed to lose the plot, and senior players seemed to make
far too many basic errors and let the visitors in with a converted try.
Queensbury then dominated, but last ditch tackles and dropped ball denied
Queensbury further points to give a half time score of 10-6. The second half first 30 minutes were all Queensbury, scoring 3 tries and
two conversions. Silsden seemed to
be destined for their second defeat of the season by Queensbury at 10-26.
With 10 minutes left on the clock, a great break from Jon Gwilliam was
supported by Andy Bowness who passed back to Gwilliam who was tackled 5 meters
from the try line but managed a superb pass in the tackle back to Bowness who
scored under the posts. He converted
his own try to narrow the gap to 10 points.
From the kick off from Andy Bowness, Queensbury could not prevent the
ball from going dead and the drop out from under their own posts was collected
by Gwilliam, who put Bowness through a gap, and the Silsden full back went in
for his second try in as many minutes, converting it himself to trail by only 4
points. On the next set, Silsden
forged good field position with good drives from Chris Langdale and Neil Jordan,
and on the last tackle, a grubber kick from John Williams went over the try line
to be pounced on for his hat trick from Andy Bowness.
The Andy Bowness show continued with a superb conversion to give Silsden
a 2 point lead with 5 minutes left on the clock.
Silsden again forced an error early in the count from Queensbury, and
after 5 tackles found themselves in front of the Queensbury posts, and there was
that man again, Andy Bowness, at hand to drop a field goal.
Silsden played out their next set, and the referees whistle came to
signal that Silsden had played their “Get Out Of Jail” card just in the nick
of time. While this game was not a
classic by any means, the young Silsden side missing many regular players can be
justly proud of themselves. Silsden will need all their regular players back if they mean to challenge
the top of Division 2 side Kippax
away next week. Kick-off is at 2.30
p.m.
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