Carbs 64-17 Sawsa
ON A fine Sunday morning, finalists CARBS took to the rugby pitches at Llanrumney to face Pharmacy; a match billed to be a battle of the titans after Pharmacy beat ENGIN 27 – 0 to reach the final and CARBS finished top of the league.
Unfortunately for ENGIN a mere 3rd place was all that they could muster up, despite their weekly training regime, leaving them envious of CARBS’ superior performances.
The supposed contest did not last long as CARBS began to show their superior skill and dominance, scoring within the opening two minutes.
The first try was accredited to Ben Spencer, after a set-move from the CARBS backline saw him over the line in the corner. This was swiftly followed up by a trademark Dafydd Franklin try. Franklin continued his onslaught; scoring a further two tries and completing his hat-trick, the last set up by a fantastic line cut by Captain Dave Chapman, sending him flying up the middle of the park, before drawing the last man to put Franklin over for a walk-in.
CARBS were helped throughout the match by their number 10, Will Lemay, whose kicking in the final was outstanding as he converted tries from all over the field. CARBS locks Ollie Bazin and Richard Clarke put in fine performances, especially in the indomitable CARBS lineout. As the match went on and the scores racked up Pharmacy still remained defiant and continued to put in a resilient effort, scoring 3 tries during the game. However, this was in vain as CARBS ran in a further 6 tries, taking the total to 10 (Dafydd Franklin (3), Daniel Sendell (2), James Spencer (2), Ben Laurence (1) and Alistair McAloon (1), Ben Spencer (1)). As a result the game was called off with 10 minutes still to go with CARBS amassing over 60 points.
1. Charlie Woollcombe-Adams
Dear “Baz”,
Congratulations on your win, an excellent display of how CARBS are such a key and enthusiastic part of IMG having not been in existence all season.
Banter aside, I feel I need to settle the score for those who have not been following the recent tournament. “Unfortunately for ENGIN a mere 3rd place was all that they could muster up, despite their weekly training regime, leaving them envious of CARBS’ superior performances.” Hang on hang on, ENGIN beat CARBS 24 – 21 a few matches before this “battle of the titans”, and as I recall did so in the final of last year as well.
ENGIN yes were sadly denied their place in the final to repeat this by Pharmacy, but as it happens 2/3 of their players during the match were not Pharmacy players and in fact were ringers from the 1sts and 2nds. After consulting the rules of the tournament it was decided this was not allowed. Unfortunately ENGIN were given no consolation, but Pharmacy went through to the final and turned up to play CARBS with less than a full team, now without their ringers. So it was no wonder that CARBS could “show their superior skill and dominance”, playing against half a team!
The tournament this year was in it’s early stages of rebirth, and there is no doubt that the rules will be set down properly for next year to avoid such issues again. All the teams are very grateful for all of those involved with the organisation and the effort that has been put into the tournament, and we thoroughly look forward to next year’s season.
2. Pacman
Would this article be written by the same Oliver Bazin of CARBS?
Conflict of interest, much. You sad excuse for a writer.