🏉💫 Try-Line Tilly’s Match Day Report

yateyouthrugby
3 days ago
3 min read

Hey team, Try-Line Tilly here, and wow… what a game to report on this week. Yes, the score line didn’t fall our way, and yes, we walked off with a few bumps and bruises (and even a couple of missing players!), but this match showed something far more important than numbers on a board: care, spirit, and scrums.

Let’s get stuck into it.

⭐ Standout Moment

Once again — and I feel like I say this every week — our scrum was an absolute force of nature. Stable, powerful, relentless. Even when the game wasn’t going our way, that platform never faltered.

💭 Feelings Going In vs Feelings Coming Out

Heading into the match, we didn’t totally know what to expect. We’d heard Saracens were strong, fast, and dangerous — and they lived up to that reputation.

At full-time? There was disappointment. Not just because of the score, but because losing teammates to injury is never easy.

But that disappointment? That’s just proof of how much this group cares about each other and about the badge they wear.

🔎 Standout Players & Units

The forwards:👉 Dominant in the scrum👉 Disruptive at the ruck👉 Slowing Sarries ball again and again

A massive shout to Joe Hill, too shifting from No.8 to the wing and playing like he’d trained there all season. Adaptability like that is rare and brilliant.

🎯 What We Did Well

It’s tough — really tough — to keep finding yourselves defending under your own posts. But after the initial frustration, these lads showed real character: They reset. They refocused. They made their next actions positive.

The pod work looked good, the communication was strong, and they stuck to structure even when the pressure cranked up.

🔧 Next Week’s Focus

This team will bounce back. Next week, it’s all about:🔥 Sharpening our defensive shape🔥 Becoming harder to break down🔥 Turning that scrum dominance into territory and pressure

By the end of the season, the goal is clear: become a team that is very hard to beat.

🤝 Moment of Teamwork & Resilience

This one was class.

A scrum inside our own half →Seb launches a beautifully judged kick →Superb chase →Pressure forces an opposition knock-on →We win the scrum →Seb goes again with a kick to the corner →We almost steal the lineout…

That whole sequence took us 70 metres up the pitch, all through teamwork, graft, and intelligent rugby. One of the best team efforts of the game.

👏 Respect to the Opposition

Saracens were:⚡ Fast⚡ Agile⚡ Athletic

They really tested our tackling and were dangerous across the pitch. But more importantly, they showed respect — in their play and after the match. Always good to see.

🌱 Player Progress

A special mention for Logan Skinner growing in confidence every week and today stepped up brilliantly as a starter in the scrum. Love seeing that development!

📣 Supporters Make the Difference

Even as the score slipped away, the parents and supporters from both sides stayed loud, supportive, and encouraging. That positivity matters the lads felt it.