I caught up with the junior friendly at Roughfort between several Academy sides and Grosvenor on Friday evening. The match was played over three 25 minute periods with Academy fielding a different side for each period as they gave their firsts, seconds and thirds squads an early season hit out. Grosvenor played the same tem from a panel of around 25 players.
I’d guess this meeting came about with the recent big money1 transfer of ex Grosvenor Coach Robert Ford to Academy and with Ford sides always playing an attractive style of rugby I thought I’d pick this one up.
With the light fading fast I only picked up the first two periods on the tree lined pitch and, wouldn’t you know it, they both ended scoreless. All the points came in the final quarter with Grosvenor coming out top 5 – 19 against the Grosvenor third string, by that stage.
Despite being scoreless the first two periods were entertaining and competitive enough, with Academy 2nds coming closest to a try with this effort.
You can view the rest of the action in the gallery below.
Match Gallery
- Just a joke. ↩︎
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