IT’S DIRE STRAITS AS THIRDS EDGE HOME AT RHINOS!

November 3, 2022

WITH MORE TURNOVERS THAN GREGGS AND  MISSES GALORE, TROJANS 3 MADE IT VICTORY NUMBER THREE THANKS TO CLIVE BENT’S LAST MINUTE FREE SHOTS.

THE FORMER NATIONAL LEAGUE STAR (PICTURED) WAS FOULED TWICE IN THE DYING MINUTES OF A POOR  GAME WHICH WAS NOT LACKING ANY INTENSITY, ONLY QUALITY, AND HIS 3 FROM 4 FREE-SHOOTING SAW TROJANS SNATCH A 31-29 VICTORY FROM THE JAWS OF DEFEAT AT THE XCEL CENTRE.

BOTH SIDES WERE GUILTY OF MISSING EASY SHOTS, WITH TROJANS THE MAJOR CULPRITS, AND, QUITE FRANKLY, THEY SHOULD HAVE PUT THE GAME TO BED BY HALF-TIME HAD THEY SCORED WITH THEIR USUAL SHOOTING PERCENTAGE, BUT AS IT WAS, THE OPENING HALF ENDED 20-15 TO THE VISITORS AS RHINOS, WITHOUT SEVERAL OF THEIR USUAL STARTERS STRUGGLED TO HIT THE TARGET AND TROJANS SHOOTING WAS JUST AWFUL.

TWO 4-6 QUARTERS EITHER SIDE OF THE BREAK TELLS THE STORY, BUT EVEN IN MEDIOCRITY THE GAME HAD ITS MOMENT, AND THAT WAS THE FINALE WHEN BENT STEPPED UP TO THE LINE AND WON THE GAME FOR TILE HILL TO SEND THEM HOME HAPPY – I DOUBT IT!

SCORERS: RHINOS – BIANCHI 9, TODD 6, PETITT 6, BAKER 3, CHEETHAM 3, PAN 2, HONEYWELL 0, CASTLE 0, KEARSLEY 0.

TROJANS – ROBINSON 10, BENT 9, MICEA 6, MAXWELL 4, DICKSON 2, SANCHEZ 0, NOVELSKAS 0, COOMBES 0.

A SIDE NOTE – IT WAS GOOD TO SEE GREG HALDER BACK REFEREEING AFTER HIS ILLNESS!