Firstly a chip over from Ian Rudgeley was collected by winger Sam Boshell to score close to the posts, and moments later Thurrock had a penalty 8 metres from the Walsham line, Michael Stanley instead of going for the corner chipped over the top of a static defence and sprinted to touch down close to the dead ball line, Neale added both conversions. The visitors come back well and scored a try against the run of play with Austin crossing for an unconverted try.
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With 15 minutes Thurrock played their last roll of the dice, with Earl Gorman coming on in the centre replacing Ben Stanley. But still the visitors could not find a way through, and it looked ominous that it not going to be Thurrock’s day. With time running out Michael Stanley made an incisive break getting stopped short of the line the forwards managed to recycle the ball but Frankie Neale ran out of space near the corner but had the nous to keep the ball in play throwing it back into the field of play and the on rushing Bevans-Royston picked the ball off his toes at full steam and made up for his earlier misdemeanour and crashed over to score wide out. At last the Thurrock fans had something to cheer about albeit in the 74th minute
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Just a few minutes later, with Cheltenham now defending wider as the forwards drove up the field, Kat Emerson, wearing an unfamiliar 13 shirt cut through the centre field, and with second row Tammy Nichols running a fine support line, she collected the pass for the T’s second in only 12 minutes.
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Thurrock welcomed Bury St Edmunds to Oakfield but left having run the league leaders desperately close. Thurrock are unbeaten at home this season and several of the Home supporters commented that Bury were by far the toughest visitors to date and probably gave the Thurrock faithful the best game seen their this season.
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Their normal cohesive attacking ability was rather ring rusty and Thurrock let many scoring chances go to waste. They could not have had the better of starts with Frankie Neale slotting over a penalty, then converting a Nathan Farre’ll try whose hard running style caused problems for the Braintree defence the whole game.
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Thurrock welcomed close neighbours Brentwood to a festive Oakfield on Saturday, and the large crowd see the home side avenge the defeat they suffered early in the season. It was however the visitors they opened the scoring with barely 10 minutes played, in a period which the Brentwood forwards dominate possession and a string of penalties kept them on the front foot as Wylie went over for a try, converted by Whitehead.
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This will be a real crunch match, if Thurrock win there is every chance they will be promoted to the national league. This is a really big step
for the club AND Thurrock as a whole putting the district into the nations eyes
A further penalty just after the break extended the home sides lead and it looked as if Thurrock were facing their second defeat of the season. But they grabbed some inner strength and gradually got on top and in a scintillating 15 minute spell turned the game on its head, Mike Stanley broke through to score, the replacement Dritan Loka was in support to score under the posts, and Sam Boshell added the third wide out after a poor clearance kick gifted Thurrock the chance which they gratefully accepted, Mike stanley kick all 3 conversions, the last one from the touchline which importantly put Thurrock 3 scores ahead.
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Thurrock kept up the forays into the visitors half, but Colfe’s responded well trying to counter attack and forced Thurrock to concede two kickable penalties, which only one by Ed Livett was successful, that was the only attacking threat that Thurrock endured all afternoon. Nat Farrell was next on the score sheet with another mazy run, followed again by a great line of attack by Darryl Worster to score under the post’s, Stanley kicked both conversions for 26-3 half time lead.
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Jamie Roberts first came to the fore in 2005,as Wales’ under 21 team won the Grand Slam. In that year’s autumn series he fractured his skull against Australia but came back strongly in 2009 being selected for the British Lions with that great Irishman, Brian O’Driscoll. He performed so well that he was the British Lions man of the series. Of course earlier this year he performed heroics with Wales as they reached the semi-finals of the World Cup and, had it not been for the controversial sending off of captain, Sam Warburton, could have been a World Cup winner.
No one could have expected such one way traffic in the second half, following the coaches half time team talk where they believed the players had underperformed the players responded accordingly. They showed much more vigour and were rewarded with 7 unanswered tries in what was an outstanding 40 minutes of rugby.
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With a very capable first half performance behind them the home side new a good start to the half to keep up the momentum was important, and within five minutes of the restart a series of forward surges gave the chance for a cross kick that gave Earl Gorman the chance to field the ball and crash over for second of the game, the resultant conversion was just wide. Letchworth then had a spell in which they showed why they have had a good start to the season,
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Thurrock once again turned in a great performance as they hosted the visitors for the first time in the clubs history. But the writing was on the wall for the ‘hammers’ as they are known, when a great forward try from Garth Tucker, then a Sam Boshell try, converted by Michael Stanley who also added a penalty to lead 15-0 within the same amount of minutes.
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Thurrock managed to go through to the final by most points scored in the group. The Final was against Heathfield from East Sussex who were a very well drilled team and at half time neither team had managed to cross the line due to some ferocious tackling from both sides.
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Playing away in wet conditions the T-Birds were always on top in this dogged encounter. Playing against a big pack Thurrock had to dig deep to enable their speedy backs the room to play their special brand of rugby.
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This however showed why Thurrock, are such a good side and why their scalp is high on everybody’s list. They are responded positively with a try through centre Ben Stanley after a great break from his brother Mike who then followed up with a try of his own has he chipped over the top and beat the cover defence to touch down wide of the posts, albeit both conversions just went wide of the posts he was without doubt Thurrock’s best player on the day and Thurrock now led 23-14 with less than 10 minutes to go.
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Thurrock welcomed league leaders Colchester to Oakfield on yet another cloud free day and the rugby produced was of the top order from both sides. Although Thurrock from the start the team that looked the most likely, this was without doubt the most complete performance for many years. It was a truly outstanding effort from all the players involved and sent a large amount of heartfelt pride to the management team to see the team hit its peak for the first time.
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The half time break gave Thurrock time to regroup and they made some changes which helped ignite a great start to the second half. Seb Rate came on in the front row at the break and minutes into the half Ross Boshier and Nat Farrell entered the proceedings at the expense of Ben Timson and Jake Barrand.
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T-BIRDS continued went top of Championship South with an eight try rout of Wasps’ second string. With their first team sitting high in the Premiership Table, the Wasps second team are always big, strong and well organised.
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For the first time this season Thurrock managed to up the intensity for the whole game especially in defence and this showed late on with the visitors unable to make any inroads and looked unlikely to score again. The home side managed to cross the line five more times with Barrand adding his second and Captain Darryl Worster getting himself a brace.
The sun was hot and it was going to be a tough physical game. Harlow had a dream start with a converted try in their first visit to the Stanford half. Stanford battled their way up field and a great break from Harry Bettis at outside centre almost penetrated the line but for a strong tackle. Bettis offloaded the ball to winger Nathan Dawson who darted over the line to score.
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The first half was a very even affair. Witham did take the initial lead through their dangerous, pacy wingers, it was Thurrock who turned round the leaders 12 – 14 at half time, thanks to two well worked forward catch and drive tries from Liam Walsh and captain Tony Millsom and two touchline conversions from Luke Cotter. The scrum and line were working well.
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Stanley, the former England Under 20’s player, was the games stand out performer and it was his inspired second half display that dragged Thurrock back from a 15 – 0 half time deficit. Up until the break things had gone well for Bury in a keenly fought encounter. they needed to however, as Thurrock showed that once again they will be amongst the league’s leading sides come April.
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Thurrock got off to the perfect start as centre Ben Stanley skipped over wide out, brother Michael then made no mistake with the conversion. Thurrock conceded a couple of penalties to bring them within a point but it was the duo that extended the Thurrock lead Ben adding his second try and Mike adding the extras. Thurrock was very much to the fore and prop Aston Bevans-Royston crashed over to score wide out. But Braintree would not lie down and came back with a converted try.
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