Lichfield U14’s v Camp Hill

From Chief Sports Correspondent - Will Parker

Sunday May 30th 2021, ko 1:00pm. Played on 3rd Team pitch

Weather – Dry and sunny, with a gentle wind blowing down the slope toward the Clubhouse
Lichfield playing up the slope, into the bright sun and slight wind in the first half, ground good to firm.

Camp Hill kicked off
6 mins – Camp Hill try by the centre cutting back to the right hand side of the posts (RHS)
Conversion good

10 mins – Lichfield try by Charlie Semple after he jinked his way past several defenders from just inside the Camp Hill 22 scoring to the RHS of the posts!
Conversion secured by Freddie Clarkson – 1st water break on 12 ½ mins

16 mins – Camp Hill try in the bottom left hand corner after the ball had been moved along the backline well
Conversion missed

24 mins – Camp Hill try under the posts
Conversion secured
End of first half – Lichfield 7 – 19 Camp Hill

32 mins – Lichfield try by Charlie Semple, this was a length of the field try after taking a quick tap penalty under our own posts….fantastic individual effort!
Conversion secured by Freddie Clarkson

37 mins – Camp Hill try under the posts after Lichfield switched off to the quick tap from Camp Hill
Conversion secured – 3rd water break at 37 ½ mins

There was no further score in the 4th period but this doesn’t begin to reflect the effort the Lichfield lads put in today, to a man they were tackling hard, aggressively targeting rucks and moving the ball around freely. If there could be a criticism it was that we tended to take the ball on that yard or two too far losing it in contact, didn’t always release the ball when we had clear overlaps and scoring opportunities, and our ball handling wasn’t at its best either unfortunately!

However…….from where we were 6 months ago to now, this criticism might seem a little churlish but such are the expectations around this group of lads now, they have turned a corner and should be extremely proud of their performances in the last month or so over what has been quite an intense period, I know I speak for the Coaches in saying how proud we are of them all, and what a great season 2021 / 2022 promises to be if we carry on with the levels of improvement and commitment we have shown to date – but this is up to the lads, it’s their individual and collective responsibility to pull together and work hard over the summer, in the Gym, running and studying the game to gain a better understanding, all this will help them immeasurably so they can hit the ground running in September

FINAL SCORE – Lichfield 14 – 26 Camp Hill