Spy in the Camp - Bedford

Albion take on third placed Bedford this Saturday with a choice of matches on Sunday. Also Saturday starts the Player of the season voting at Brickfields.

This Weekend

v
Albion v B Blues
Saturday 28 March
K.O. 3 pm
Also 
Ladies v Bath KO 2:15
and
Devon v Cornwall @ Okehampton
KO 3pm

As we approach the end of the season Albion will be looking to collect a few more points to make their position in the new Championship safe. None of the remaining matches are going to be easy and the team will have to step up after the 22-9 loss at Old Deer Park.

It had been hoped that the match against Moseley would be played on 18th April but unless we play them after their match against Leeds at Twickenham we will need to play mid week! Moseley and Albion are yet to agree a date and Moseley have put in an appeal to play the match after the end of the season, which is against the rules. So we will just have to wait and see what comes.

My understanding is that if Moseley fail to hold the fixture Albion will credited with the win but will only be awarded 4 points, Moseley however may well be deducted points which may put there position in the Championship in doubt.

Bedford Match

Bedford are flying high winning their last 6 matches including league leaders Leeds.

Bedford have won the last 4 meetings and the last time Albion came out on top was in 2006 at Brickfields when Martin Rice scored two of the 4 tries in a 22 - 8 win. With Martin back in action is this an omen?

With Bedford having a positive of 336 points and Albion with just 3 it will certainly be a tough ask, but every game is winnable.

Ex Albion international James Pritchard has picked up 177 points including 4 tries and sits 4th in the league for both points and kicking points.

Ian Davey and William Twelvetrees both have amassed 15 tries and are equal 2nd in the league.

With more than 70% of their tries scored from the backs we can expect a fast match, Lets hope that we have enough backs on the bench, should we have 4 backs for this match? I know that this is unlikely but you can always hope.

Certainly Tom Jarvis, Ross Allan and Tom Jarvis were playing for their place on Tuesday night against the All Blacks.

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National League One Data

This table shows the for and against for each team. eg Tries 74/17 is 74 tries scored and 17 conceded. Con Rate is the percentage tries converted.

This weeks fixtures

Side by side
Gate 3283 avg 6871 max	Gate 2465 avg 3171 max
Form home l w d w w w w w w l l w w away l l w l w w l l d w l l	Form home w w w l w w w l w w l w w away w w w l w w w l l l w w w
Best home game 47 - 6 Man Worst away game Leeds 49 - 18	Best home game 62 - 0 Man Worst away game Knights 50 - 21
Most points in a match 21 Kieran Hallett Albion 26 - 25 Nott'ham	Most points in a match 20 William Twelvetrees B Blues 62 - 0 Man
Most tries in a match 2 Matt Hopper Albion 36 - 14 Esher Justin Mensah-Cover Albion 31 - 7 Tigers	Most tries in a match 4 William Twelvetrees B Blues 62 - 0 Man
Recent results Welsh 22 - 9 Albion Knights 28 - 23 Albion Tigers 11 - 27 Albion Albion 20 - 33 Titans Chiefs 29 - 0 Albion Albion 23 - 15 Otley	Recent results Tigers 0 - 64 B Blues B Blues 27 - 24 Leeds Pirates 5 - 6 B Blues B Blues 23 - 16 Nott'ham Otley 17 - 23 B Blues B Blues 23 - 9 Cov
TRIES 6 Matt Hopper 5 Geoff Griffiths Justin Mensah-Cover 4 Gareth Evans 3 Arran Cruikshanks Mike Denbee Keni Fisilau Ryan Hopkins Tom Jarvis Wayne Sprangle 2 Liam Gibson Kieran Hallett Greg Nicholls James Owen Sean-Michael Stephen 1 Ross Allan Alex Davies Jannie Du Toit Ross Laidlaw Kyle Marriott Martin Rice	TRIES 15 Ian Davey William Twelvetrees 10 Will Harries 9 Karl Dickson 8 Ollie Dodge 7 Gregor Gillanders Ryan Owen 6 Mouritz Botha 4 James Pritchard 3 Michael Howard Rory McKay Dan Richmond Paul Tupai 2 Phil Boulton Brendan Burke Sacha Harding
Kicking Points Con DG Pen Points Kieran Hallett 23 2 27 133 Ross Laidlaw 12 - 11 57 Alex Davies 7 - 12 50	Kicking Points Con DG Pen Points James Pritchard 38 - 27 157 William Twelvetrees 15 - 11 63 Brad Davis 1 1 1 8 Brendan Burke 1 - 1 5
Discipline SinBin Arthur Brenton Arran Cruikshanks Jannie Du Toit Gareth Evans Keni Fisilau (3) Matt Hopper Tom Jarvis Sean-Michael Stephen (2)	Discipline SinBin Brendan Burke Ollie Dodge Gregor Gillanders (2) Sacha Harding Michael Howard Rory McKay Paul Tupai (4) William Twelvetrees Sam Walsh

Visiting Brickfields

If you haven't been to Brickfields before you will be in for a friendly welcome from the club and the home support.

The ground is growing into a great stadium with plenty of food and beverage outlets to suit all comers. You can get anything from a chocolate bar to a four course sit down meal.

Click to see more details on the ground

Halftime Entertainment.

Weather forecast

Current forecast is Sunny Intervals max daytime temp 10^oC with strong North winds up to 21mph.

Officials for the day

Referee: Keith Lewis
Assistants: Simon Mcconnell, Mark Summerhayes
Assessor: Mike Coleman

Numbers in brackets are average per match.

Spy in the Camp - Bedford

Posted by: Unofficial Plymouth Albion (IP Logged)

Date: 26/03/2009 15:24

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Re: Spy in the Camp - Bedford

Posted by: Cider Drinker (IP Logged)

Date: 26/03/2009 15:31

sorry frank - forgot to post you 'my bit' due to overload of rugby games this week - have the 'ones to lookout for':

Billy Twelvetrees(centre),arguably on of the Blues best players having scored 15 tries, 15 conversions and 11 penalties and only one yellow against his name this season. Ian Davey (wing) who has honours of England under 18 team, and has scored 15 tries. Will Harries (Full back) who has honours of playing for Wales 7’s, and has scored 10 tries. Karl Dickson (scrum half) whos honours are playing for the North of England, and has scored 9 tries. Ollie Dodge (Wing) who has honours of England under 20’s, who has scored 8 tries and has one yellow card. Gregor Gillanders (second row) who has honours of England under 20’s, and has scored 7 tries and 2 yellow cards. Ryan Owen (wing/fullback/centre) who has honours of Wales under 18’s, and has scored 7 tries. Mouritz Botha (second row), whos honours are playing for east midlands, and has scored 6 tries Brendon Burke (fullback) who has honours of the Irish Under 19 sevens, and has scored 2 tries, 1 conversion and 1 penalty and has one yellow card. James Pritchard (fullback/ wing/outside/centre) who has honours of playing for Canada who has scored 4 tried, 28 conversions and 27 penalties. Brad Davies (Fly half/centre), who has honours of playing for Gloucester, and has scored a drop goal. Sacha Harding (Back row) who has honours of playing for England students, has scored 2 tries and has one yellow card. Mike Howard (second row), who has scored 3 tries and has one yellow card. Rory McKay (no 8) who has honours of playing for Scotland 7’s, and has scored 3 tries and has one yellow card. Dan Richmond (Hooker) is the captain of the team and has scored 3 tries. Liam Roberts, (centre) who has honours of playing for Wales under 21’s and 7’s, and has scored 2 tries. Paul Tupai (lock/back row), who has honours of playing for Samoa has scored 3 tries, but has a total of 4 yellow cards against his name. Ian Vass (scrum half/fly half), who did play in the premiership, and has scored one try Sam Walsh (loose head prop), who has picked up a yellow.

CD’s prediction: close one again – think the Blues will take it by 6 points – but Albion may prove me wrong

Don't let anything get in the way of a good game of Rugby

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Re: Spy in the Camp - Bedford

Posted by: noibla (IP Logged)

Date: 26/03/2009 17:10

Thanks for your input U2, well done.

Semper Sersum.

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