Amateur RU: Bags of effort but no reward for Huddersfield

Jan 26 2010 by David Lockwood, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

With Barlow adding the extras to maintain his 100% kicking record, Fylde looked on their way to a bonus point win.

Huddersfield were in no mood to give in, however, and began to exert pressure on the home defence, who lost hooker Jonny Roddam to the sin-bin, while Field spent 10 minutes without Sharpe.

Johnson added his third penalty to drag his side to within 10 points, but they were unable to take advantage of a couple of late chances, which could at least have seen them salvage a bonus point.

“Overall I was disappointed with the result, but ultimately Fylde deserved their victory,” said director of rugby Mark Sowerby.

“I can’t knock the endeavour, which is something I’ve never questioned during our recent bad run, and we were perhaps unlucky not to come away with something out of the contest. But we need to learn to keep the ball better than we do, and take our chances when they come.

“In the latter stages we got behind their defence two or three times, but then we are trying to force the final pass and are not taking advantage of what we have created.”

Huddersfield: Owen; Sutcliffe, Clarke, Paxman (B), Van Vuuren; Johnson, Hinchliffe, Slater, Davies, Stringwell, Harris, Sharpe, Lewis, Whitehead, Hyde. Subs: Battye, Entressengle, Duffy, Hinchliff, Clayton.

Fylde: Royle; Gargett, Hurst, Ward, Welch, Barlow, Aikman, Irving, Roddam, Lewis, Atkinson, King, Smith, McGinnis, Beaumont. Subs: Fryar, Altham, Ferguson, Wallwork, Waywell.