St. Faiths vs. St. Johns

Like our match against Kings, there was one player who we feared quite a lot. His name was Ali Russell. He was considerably bigger than Jonah (see the link in line 1), but Jonah was just as good as Ali in terms of quickness and tackling. Shown to the left is Tom Wilkinson, our speedy right winger. He played very well on his runs on the right hand side. Unfortunately, the rest of the team didn't do well enough. The final score was 19-7, St. Johns winning.

In the first half, the tempo was fast, and the ball was inside the St. Johns half for almost all the time. What was frustrating was the fact that the minute and a half that they had the ball in our half was the play that scored them their first try, which was not converted. So at halftime, we thought that if we scored a try and converted it, that we could hold on until the end of the game.

St. Johns proved us wrong. One of them barged through our defense to score, and near the end of the game, Ali Russell sprinted down the left hand side of the pitch to score, although many of our team (including me) saw him and thought that he was out of bounds during the first part of his run. However, our scrum half had scored a try in between the two St. Johns tries of the second half. So at least the loss wasn't a blowout.