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Gwernyfed Ladies must now know that they are more than good enough to go to climb back to the Championship. At last a team has emerged, a team that plays with wit and pace and courage. It feels like the fans are witnessing enlightenment of latent talent. Just a few short months ago, went through hell during pre-season training. Before the season commenced Coach Gordon Snape said that Gwernyfed had the talent to win the league, but the players had to believe it. Others in the establishment sniggered, but not now.

 

The final score today favoured Gwernyfed ladies by over a dozen points, with the final score of 24 – 10 but it should have been double that amount. There where heroes all over the pitch, but let’s start with the half backs.

 

Outside half El Fanham, looked the natural in stormy conditions and she was helped in all that she did by that old bruiser Sain Dyke. The scrum-half has had a few scuffles in her time, but her reading of the game against Sea View helped separate the teams.

 

Sea View took an early lead with a breakaway try, but they did not really deserve it scoring a flukey try, created when the Gwernyfed defence paniced, overreacted to a poor kick. Carys Ricketts put Gwernyfed Ladies level, and Del Thomas kicked Gwernyfed ahead.

 

Ten minutes later the scrum-half drew the Sea View defence left and then switched her pass. It wasn’t much, but it created some hesitation. The half backs were then able to drive through some risible tackling from Sea View for Kirsty prosser to score the first of her two tries, through loose tackling. The contrast with Gwernyfed was colossal. All season the ladies have been practising tackling low so that Sea View’s big ball carriers could not get going. The girls are beginning to restoring the art of the low tackle.

 

Becky Willis is one of the smallest open sides in the league, but she cut down Sea view all afternoon. There is a lot to be said for the technique. Likewise flanker Harry Jones sat down their number 8 from a scrum. But it would be ludicrous to single out Willis’s and Jones’s defensive effort, to a man the forwards where formidable. The front row trio of Katie Price, Di Workman and Rosie Snape ground down the opposition in the scrums.

Ros Price made some important tackles cutting the opposition try scoring full back more than once, opposite wing Nic Haines was more than a match for her opposite number defending well and making hard yards. At Half time sub winger Kayliegh Rees entered the fray, and produced breath taking runs only to be thwarted by last ditch try saving tackles.

 

Gwernyfed Ladies are a side who have grown to love tackling. Goodness, there is a touch of the Springboks about it with the belief that haven’t got the ball, but we don’t care.

 

The power house of the second row provided much positive ball carrying with both Simone Hodges and every smiling Rosie Jones attacking the oppositions line. The final try came with a darting run from man of the match Megan Snape, who sniped from 10 metres out beating two defenders to score in the corner. This was the final score of the day 24 – 10 to the travelling Green army.
 

It is time for a team to believe.

 

Sea View Ladies (10) v Gwernyfed Ladies (24)