B.W. Est/Wok 0 - Luxembourg 88

Weather: 16° and sunny

Pitch: Good

Kick Off: 11:00

Spectators: 16

With good referring from Mr. Pontseel, Luxembourg started:

1- Niclas, 2- Yannick, 3- Xavier, 4- Louis, 5- Gabriel, 6- Lucas, 7- Antoine R, 8- Pedro (C), 9-William, 10- Matthiew, 11- Hugo, 12- Callum, 13- Stuart, 14- Gregoire, 15- Sean

Subs: HT 19- Benji for Matthew. 40’ 20- Micky for William. 44’ 21 Francesco for Hugo. 50’ 16- Pierre for Niclas and 17- Jordi for Yannick. 56’ 18- Frederico for Pedro and Christopher for Gregoire.

Scorers: Pedro (3), Antoine (2), Gregoire (2), Louis, Stuart, Lucas, Xavier, Benji, Sean and Francesco.

Convertions by Matthew (2), Benji (6) and Stuart.

For the second game of the league we went to Joidogne to play with a courageous RW Est team who could only align 13 players.

For no particular reason, our boys started the game very nervous with lots of handling errors and giving away penalties. Even if they scored the first two tries very quickly, with Pedro, at the 4th minute, getting a ball from a scrum and taking advantage of the space to get around the defence and Louis scoring at the 8th minute from four well played successive rucks, the team didn’t calm down. The next 20 minutes were a display of chaotic rugby, individual actions, bad passes and incomprehensible penalties conceded. One had to wait till the 29^th minute to see the first really collective action when the forwards kept the ball in control and a fine move in the backs ended with Stuart scoring. Before, at the 18^th minute, Antoine had score forcing his way to the try zone after a penalty at 5m. In the 32^nd minute, Antoine scored again, this time from a ruck near the opposition try line to settle the score 29-0 at half time.

Things improved a lot in second half when the team finally played collective and did the rugby basics right. With the RW Est team showing signs of giving up and fresh blood in the team, the tries started to pile up. In the 5^th minute, Callum started from our 22 and some good passes after Gregoire scored. In the 8^th minute another good action from Callum and a good follow up, Lucas scored. In the 14^th minute Pedro scored again from a scrum. In the 17^th minute, Antoine did a good run and Xavier scored after a good forwards support. One minute after, Gregoire scored again after a good back’s move. In the 20^th minute, Pedro scored after a lonely run. In the 23^rd minute, Callum entered again and a good follow up ended with Benji scoring. In the 26^th minute, nice pass from Micky allowed Sean to cut through all the defence. In the 33^rd minute, another successive good passes ended in the hands of Francesco to score in the corner.

Conversions by Matthew, Stuart and Benji (6) settled the score 88-0.

In the overall the boys played again a very serious game correcting in the second half the errors made in first half. Having 10 different players scoring tries, shows the collective is working, even if a RW Est team weakened by the absence of two players on the pitch made the task easier. The forward pack was dominant in the scrums and line outs and the ball carrier almost always benefited from good support. The back line displayed again very good moves ending, when they kept it simple, with a try.

Man of the Match: Antoine