The Perfect Brownie

On a hot day and with only 14 men, the start was as bad as it can get, Norton ran in a try after sloppy defending, 5 nil down after 2 minutes… not good!

The Norton side was rather large and it looked as though it would be a long afternoon for the Allstars. However, superb scrummaging by Clevedons 7 forwards put pressure on Norton and after a fearsome tackle (that broke the opposition's ankle) by Pagie the ball was turned over, an up and under by Carter was pounced on by Kev Brown (yes Kevin Brown) for the opening try.

The game was now switched to the next field due to the injury and this was the start of the Clevedon onslaught. Tries started to come quite regularly from this moment on and the first was started off by last years top try scorer Simon Dunn, the ball was tapped at the line out, Simon was first to the ball, he broke down the blind side, selling a massive dummy before being stopped 10 metres short of the try line, great support from the whole pack drove the ball over the line for the big fella Jeff Durant to emerge with the ball.

Mark Jenkins got the next, the ball was quickly spun from left to right after a quick tap penalty, Jenks rounded his man with a good hand off and some real pace.

The back row of Page and Williams worked well for the next try, great inter passing after another up and under was taken on by Chris Williams, who could have gone all the way, only for him to pop it off to the ever present Pagie.

Clevedon turned round at half time with a comfortable lead but had to play up a big slope, not daunted by this The Allstars put the ball into the Norton half and pressured them into making mistakes. Chris Williams poached a try off the back of a Norton line out, good spoiling by Donks freed up the ball for Chris to crash over taking a couple of players with him.

Browner got on the score sheet again after some good passing, barnstorming his way over from 3 yards.

Simon Carter then left the field due to a groin strain and Andy Neads hobbled around for all of the second half with an Achilles heal problem. Effectively the Allstars had 12 men on the field but this did not stop them from adding the final and best try of the day. A scrummage on the Clevedon 10 metre line was controlled beautifully, wheeling perfectly for Nellie to break right and feed Chris Williams inside on the foxie ball, Chris made 20 yards before passing inside to a rampaging Jeff Durant, after not 1 but 2 dummies the big man was in under the posts for a fantastic try.

Jenks had a good all round game and kicked 4 conversions.

Well done to all.