HT Rams 26 Taunton 0

Rosalyn Park 24  PARFC 29

A deserve victory for Cambridge today, although Chinnor will probably be kicking themselves for not taking advantage of the elements in the second half. Too often they butchered their attacking line-outs, and the Cambridge back-row achieved a tremendous number of turnovers. That is probably why they are third, and Chinnor are in the bottom third !

Indeed, it took a length of the field interception try for Chinnor to claim the losing bonus point as Cambridge strove for the try bonus point.

Before the game I thought the score would be something like 45-40 to Cambridge, but the weather made it an attritional contest !

A full review is attached for anyone interest

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Fatbear, very fair report.

Cambridge should have scored more in the first half when we camped on your line for most of the first half, but you also squandered chances, but the rain squalls made it a difficult day to play rugby.

Do you import the weather from Siberia, especially? I cannot remember a game at yours that was not played in a gale or driving rain, or both.

I did see a perfect rainbow on the way home. See you again next year.

I know that it is considered poor form and not the done thing to moan about the officials, especially after tasting defeat.

  

Therefore, it must be stated from the outset that Sale deserved the win, as once again, against the same opposition, DMPRFC's second half showing didn't cut the mustard.

(And don't get me started on the Sale try under the posts, when the Sale player slid in from 5-metres out, forgetting to keep hold of it when crossing  the line. Joke.)

Anyway. 

Tea-break over, back on me ed !!

Camquin, yes, Chinnor would have been very happy to have been only 2 points behind at the interval given the amount of play in Chinnor's 22, and being down to 14 for the final 10 minutes of the half.

In most of my reports there is typically a mention of the Chinnor gale, but we have been lucky in that I think this was only the second time this season I have needed to shelter for a while in the covered stand at the ring-road end !

Surely the laws have always been subject to interpretation on the basis that if a referee blew his whistle every time one side contravened one of the laws the game would be almost continually stopped.

Whether they could be made simpler without radically changing the game is another matter of course.