Weston U15s are the 2009 Bristol Combination Plate Winners

The game started with both teams finding their feet on the wide Keynsham pitch. Unfortunately for Winscombe early on in the game they lost one of their most influential players Sam Denham in an accidental clash of heads.

Weston’s pack showed good determination and a high levels of skill offloading in the tackle early on. Weston were also dominant in the scrums with the forwards securing not only their ball but a majority of the Winscombe put in.
Westons early domination in territory and possession eventually led to Tom Davies cutting a good line through the Winscombe defence to score the first try of the game. Tommy Northern was unsuccessful with the conversion.

Straight from the restart Winscombe came straight back at Weston and almost scored a try but for a last ditch tackle by Harrison Wills.
Weston regrouped from the Winscombe attack before they fell foul of an injury to Dan Cope whose strong running had been troubling the Winscombe defence early on.

This led to a reshuffle of the Weston back line and Sam McConnell came onto the wing. Again Weston pressed the Winscombe defence and after a number of phases the ball was spun wide to McConnell who finished the move off scoring out wide for his first try for the club. Unfortunately Northern was unsuccessful with what was a much more difficult conversion. Half time score 10 – 0

The second half started with the Winscombe pack now more of a force at the breakdown and they settled their own scrum. A good break by Winscombe saw the ball moved through numerous pairs of hands before Tom Day scored in the corner. The difficult conversion was missed by McKay.

Weston then laid siege to the Winscombe line for the remainder of the game and had numerous opportunities to score further tries only to be denied by continued last ditch defence by the Winscombe players.

With time ticking away Weston missed a kick to the corner and Winscombe launched a last ditch attack following quick thinking from the resultant drop out. Fortunately for Weston they managed to scramble their defence to stop the breakaway and then to compose themselves to see out the remainder of the game.

Weston players can take credit from their performance as they all performed excellently.