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1st TEAM   Match Report

Saturday 16th September 2006

League Fixture

NOTTS MODERNS 1st XV: 6   V   LUTTERWORTH  1st XV: 11

It looked like a huge task for Lutterworth to bounce back from last week’s defeat, travel to Nottingham and take on a side that won last Saturday by some fifty points. However bounce back they did, surprising the Trent Side club with a determined, disciplined and gritty performance that carried the day.

The two sides looked evenly matched in the opening minutes, Moderns went ahead with a converted penalty but Bobby Williams levelled the score after a  Lutterworth drive of some twenty yards was illegally brought down. The visitors looked certain to take the lead during the next ten minutes but surprisingly failed to score from successive lineouts in Moderns’ twenty two. Williams found the posts with a second attempt late in the half, which was matched by Nottingham to level the half way score at six each.

The second period developed into a hard fought stalemate with both sides unable to breech determined defences. Lutterworth centre, Morne Barnardo, spearheaded a number of incisive attacks but it was Captain, Dennis Hall, who carried the ball through the Nott’s defence setting up a move that was finished in style by fellow flanker, Ben Husthwaite.  During the tense and nail biting final ten minutes, Lutterworth defended a series of determined attacks, finishing exhausted but elated with a five point margin.

It was not classic rugby; more a tale of two sides who failed to grasp winning opportunities but Lutterworth left last week’s ill discipline behind them to come home with a well deserved and hard earned two points.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Scoring: 0-3, 3-3, 3-6, 6-6, 6-11.