Llanelli Wanderers Rugby Football Club

Affiliated to: The Welsh Rugby Union, West Wales Rugby Union, and the Llanelli & District Rugby Union

MATCH REPORT

LLANELLI WANDERERS v LAUGHARNE            10/01/04

The Wanderers poor run of results continued with their third consecutive defeat at the hands of Laugharne on Saturday.

The Laugharne back division, boosted by a number of players from the Whitland squad, were too hot for the Wanderers to handle, whilst a number of positional changes in the Wanderers back division compounded the disjointed nature of their play with the ball constantly being spilled in good attacking positions.

The Wanderers were out of the blocks quickly, putting their opponents under pressure immediately. However, failure to win their own lineout ball in crucial areas prevented any score until they were awarded a penalty, which Stuart Prendaville converted. Laugharne replied a few minutes later with a penalty from the touchline.

The story of the first 30 minutes was Wanderers pressure but failure to take their chances due to constant mistakes.

The final 10 minutes of the half saw the Laugharne back division playing some excellent running rugby in the wet conditions and they were finally rewarded with a well worked try with another superb conversion from the touchline.

The half finished with he Wanderers defending their line and trailing by 3 points to 10.

Wanderers got off to the worst possible start to the second half when, direct from the kick off, Laugharne broke through to score under the posts. The try was converted. This signaled an opening 10 minutes of continuous Laugharne pressure but the Wanderers defence held firm to prevent any further scores.

Due to the power of their scrummage, the Wanderers were finally able to exert some pressure and when scrum half Andrew Jenkins was stopped inches short of the line, Lee Cook was on hand to pick up and crash over to bring the scores to 8 -17.

Soon after, Rob Mathias made a fine 40-meter break away from a lineout and was stopped just yards short of the try line. There now followed a period of Wanderers pressure and they were finally awarded a penalty, which Andrew Jenkins took quickly to power over in the corner. The conversion again failed.

However, the Wanderers were unable to add to the score as they were unable to get near to the Laugharne try line and were pinned in their own 22 for most of the final 10 minutes as they tried to run the ball  but failed in the wet conditions.

It had been a disappointing day for the Wanderers and not the best of starts to the second round of fixtures. All will need to raise morale and performance for the difficult month ahead if promotion is to be secured.

FINAL SCORE:    LLANELLI WANDERERS    13     LAUGHARNE    17

Wanderers –         TRIES:  L. COOK, A. JENKINS

                        PENALTY:  S. PRENDAVILLE

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