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Matlock 55, Borough 9 - Poor discipline costs Borough at Matlock
Rugby report: Borough slipped to a heavy defeat following a promising start as Matlock took advantage of a lack of discipline from the city side.
The coach journey to Matlock was not onerous but heads were slow to focus and Borough looked a little lacklustre in the warm-up.
Despite this, however, the away side started the first five minutes the brighter of the two teams and a number of good passages of play were rewarded with three points from a Will Carrington penalty.
But then the wheels came off. Ill discipline for the next 35 minutes with minor infringements and persistent back-chat to the referee resulted in 31 relatively easy points for the opposition and three yellow cards for Borough.
Carrington slotted a second penalty but playing with 14 or even 13 men for much of the half and incurring the wrath of the official limited any opportunities for the kind of rugby expected.
The second half was an opportunity to restore some pride and discipline and for 10 minutes Borough looked to have learned from the first half,
A third Carrington penalty started the ball rolling with the scoreboard but while the discipline had improved dramatically there was still an undercurrent that had carried over from the first half and Borough were never given an opportunity to get on an even keel at the breakdown or set-piece areas.
A second yellow card, resulting in red, saw the visitors end the last 20 minutes of a dismal day with 14 players and a scoreboard at 55-9.
Borough youngsters must learn that poor discipline will lose games and impact significantly on performance.
Playing 60 per cent of the match at least one man down and questioning every decision will only ever result in one outcome.
This must be a one-off if Borough’s season is to get back on track following two good results earlier this month.
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feduppete
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 10:28 AMSorry @ Buckshot I don't obviously. Some weeks there are no reports at all. That's why I asked the question.
Buckshot
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 09:38 PM@feduppete - Don't you know the drill? Boro 1sts get their own Monday report, the also-rans (every other team in the region) are jammed in together on Tuesday. If they're lucky. You should expect to see a Lions report tomorrow, but as they lost to Har'bro they may not get much space.
feduppete
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 04:17 PMHave the Lions stopped playing, hence no reports?
BlueWhiteArmy
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 03:20 PMI heard the full back had a nightmare
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