Brilliant Recovery
Sharp
By Blues Ed
March 7 2016
Talk about making it hard for yourselves. Not many sides come back from a 24-7 deficit but theese days the Blues seem to relish a challenge..
We came back in barnstorming fashion after Ealing Trailfinders failed to be daunted by a Blues try after just two minutes from Piers O'Connor after good work from a line-out.
That annoyed the Trailfinders whose scrummage paved their eway for three tries before the break and we turned round 17 points behind.
Cue a second half rally. Joel Conlon led the way with a belting try which incldued a show and go in his run to the posts. Brilliant stuff.
Against his former employers Camilo Parilli-Ocampo scoed the next to putus just three points behind,
Our tails were up and Dean Adamson put us ahead at last when he burst through to set up an easy conversion for Jake Sharp, with Paul Tupai finishing off from a maul.
Entertaining fightback but not a habit we want to adopt too often.
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What was noticeable was how much bigger their back 5 in the scrum were compared to ours.
How many kicks did Dorrian miss? 1 which we should never have gone for the posts given the wind but instead the corner.
The playoffs are in sight but some tricky waters to row to get there. Giving away a start like that in the coming games and we will have to rely on others' results to reach the playoffs 'cos coming back from the dead a second time, particularly against the teams we are to face, is unlikely.
Whilst there will be those that say that Bedford have got a tough run-in, another way to look at it is that other teams have got to get through Bedford.
Get ready for a real roller coaster ride.
I still think as long as we get points from every game its possible, a point any point. Before Saturday I'd have said we needed 10 points.