Ossett News Posted February 28, 2023 Report Share Posted February 28, 2023 a fair summary from the Thirsk coach Thirsk 25 - Ossett 33 Head coach Martin Sargent (Sarge to us ) reflects on the weekends home defeat to Ossett and the job still in hand. The lads are understandably disappointed with the result, as it realistically put any outside chance of back to back promotion beyond our reach, we started really sharply and got the scoreboard rolling early and pushed hard through to the final whistle, which we have maybe not done in enough games this season, if anyone had caught the first 20 minutes of the game, left and returned in the last 20 minutes, I think they would find it hard to believe the final score, that said the visitors showed why they are deservedly sat in a solid 2nd in the league and unbeaten on the road this season, defensively they were hard to breakdown and stepped up and arguably played their best rugby when down to 14 men after losing a man to a innocuous yellow card, scoring 2 tries in that 10 minute period and securing the 4 try bonus point, showing the mentality of the team and belief they had in each other when up against it ! We probably had 70% of the procession across the game, a dominant line out and a parable scrum, so you could argue we didn’t use those advantages to good enough effect and get the win ? but we played some good stuff out there and on the whole took our chances when they came, it was really down to a couple moments in the game when we just switched off defensively that proved costly, one from a line out 10 metre out and one from a ruck just outside our 22’ metre, good teams punish small errors or lapses of concentration and the visitors to their credit did just that scoring tries from both lapses ! but on a positive note from that,the lads have been upfront and haven’t hidden away from it ,we are still a very young side and will learn from it. The immediate reaction to the lapses during the game was also positive, we hit straight back with 2 tries of our own and a penalty all coming from sustained procession and pressure, that’s the reaction a coach wants to see in that kind of situation, it was a fight or flight moment . To of been still up there in the shake up for a promotion place with only 3 games left is not a bad place to be in our first season in Y3, there is still work to do if we want to hold on to 3rd place starting with the game against West Park Leeds on Saturday (AWAY) 3pm KO. Man of the match - Josh Sutcliffe (flanker) adding a solid performance in attack and defence to his consistently safe hands in the line. Coaches man of the match : Jonny Allen (wing) added impact from the bench with the ball in hand in attack scoring on debut, also putting in some effective tackles in defence. Unfortunately we lose scrum half Matt Brown for the rest of the season after dislocating his shoulder in early stages of the game, we all wish him speedy and full recovery.View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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