Quintin 24 – 10 Watford

Man of the Match: Gareth Tuckey, Tom Thompson and Chris Jenkins

Watford travelled to Quintin with a much changed team due to injuries and unavailability’s.  With traffic causing problems the kick off was delayed for 15 mins. In what was a very scrappy game, with more scrums in one game than most of the season so far. The home team were trying to use their backs whilst the away team were trying to keep the ball tight and play through their forwards. The first score of the game came through Watford’s first visit into their oppositions half, and resulted in a try from scrum half for the day Peter Jenkins. The conversion was missed to make the score 5 – 0 to Watford. Almost immediately from the restart Quintin scored under the posts with the conversion making it 7 – 5 to the home team. The home team scored again to make the half time score 12 – 5. The second half continued to be a scrappy affair with the home team scoring a breakaway try, converted to make the score 19 – 5. Watford stormed back into the game knowing that they still had a chance. Prop Gary Wilson was adjudged to have been held up in goal and the pressure from the resulting scrum led to Jenkins scoring his second of the game to make the score 19 -10. Quintin broke away late in the game to make the final score 24 – 10 to the home team, a result which could have so easily gone Watford’s way if they showed the correct attitude. Mention should be given to 3 players who were making their debut for the clubs 1st team, wingers Gareth Tuckey & Tom Thompson and Chris Jenkins, with the flanker playing out of position at inside centre.
 
Team: G Wilson, G Hicks, B Jones, D Mitchell, I Davis, R Flint, P Dunlop, P Fagan, P Jenkins, P Naylor, G Tuckey, C Jenkins, P Wilson, J Portway, A Frankish. Subs: S Hill for Flint and T Thompson for Tuckey.