Y10 Rugby Team:  L Welsh; J Gee, M Horrocks, J Pilkington, N Richardson, O Price, O Fishwick, J Jones, J Harold, K Hallwell, B Hardman, M Maguire, E Butler, S Butler, H Sharples

Our Y10 rugby team travelled away yesterday to play a historically strong Cowley team in St Helens. 

They were relaxed confident during the warm up, but after 3 consecutive sets of 6, Cowley managed to score from a kick to the corner to take the lead.  The Eddies' team responded well to this, stringing a couple of sets of 6 together and were rewarded with a try for Oscar Fishwick on his debut.  At half-time the score was 6 Cowley - 4 Eddies. 
After an inspiring team talk from Miss Walsh and Mr Burgess, the second half was like a different team. Eddies cut out the mistakes out and really took a grip of the game. Cowley couldn’t match the physicality of Eddies - players in defence like Ben H and Ethan B hitting everything that moved, and Kian H running with the ball and sending the Cowley players in all directions. All this forced Cowley to surrender field position and allowed Eddies to play on the front foot.  It was then over to Ben H, scoring back to back 50m runs - so similar it looked like an action replay!  Noah R then got in on the act with a nice worked move down the short side allowing him to slide over untouched.
The final score was Cowley 4 - 20 Eddies!

Special mentions have to go to Ben H for his double, Ethan B captaining the team, Oscar F for a brilliant performance on his debut and for Henry S stepping up to fill in for injuries on the day of the game and impressing when on the pitch.  Two more games in the group stage before thinking about knock out rugby. Our next game is Monday 30 November at home against Irlam and Caddishead.

Thanks to everyone for your support!