Bees 9-35 Quins
By Elliott Josypenko
September 5 2005
Wow! What a day. Both on and off the field, a great success for the Bees (perhaps not in the scoreline however).
By Elliott Josypenko
September 5 2005
Wow! What a day. Both on and off the field, a great success for the Bees (perhaps not in the scoreline however).
First of all, a big congratulations to everyone at Bees. I was somewhat sceptical that we could pull this off and make it a success, but the responses from the Quins fans summed it all up. They loved the day and one said "If this is the worst ground in the league, I can't wait for the best ones". The organisation was phenomenal with people selling tickets and programmes all the way up the drive and the organisation around the pitch was equally as good. A few people had to wait a few minutes for a drink, but never too long. The tents and the marquee behind the stand was a very good idea and spread much of the crowd out so it wasn't so busy.
Secondly a big congratulations to the fans. Although this probably wasn't the biggest gate they will witness this season, the Quins fans were great. All singing and all dancing, their support for their team was wonderful, and they were so friendly off the pitch. Well done to all of the locals who turned up as well. Although only about 1000 of the 3000 were local, it is still a significant number. Lets see as many next week then! That's what we need for the team to go forward.
And thirdly a massive thank you to all the players, from both sides for making such a great game to watch.
Bees started off perhaps the brighter and were very unfortunate to fall behind. After a couple of minutes of defending, they set up a good position and recent recruit Cae Trayhern burst through a tackle and run in under the posts. Unfortunately, the noise from the home fans drowned out the referee so it took some a fair while to realise that it had been disallowed for crossing. This wasn't in my opinion a very good decision. I was opposite the incident and didn't (through my rose-tinted specs) see too much wrong. It was a very harsh decision considering Quins got away with one far worse later. Anyway, the penalty stood and Quins ran up the other end and scored pretty much straight away through as Mehrtens made a break and offloaded to outside backs and (H)Ugo Monye ran in the try for Mehrtens to convert.
Mehrtens then set up the second try minutes later which George Harder ran in. This was a very well worked try and Bees really had no way of defending the line that Harder ran.
For the next fourty minutes (20 minutes either side of the break) the Bees played really really well. Defending was organised and tackling was reasonable (given the opposition). The lineout worked quite well until former backrow Ben Gerry came on fairly late in the game. The forwards were scrapping for everything much like at Wasps but the backs didn't really have much to do attacking wise which was a real shame.
The Quins performance was rather error-ridden. Although there was realistically only one winner, it wasn't as emphatic as the score-line suggested.
Quins then ran in another try, once again set up by Mehrtens but the Bees still refused to give up. Walshy slotted another penalty to take the score to 21-6.
All in all I wasn't entirely convinced about Tim Walsh. He missed an sitter in front of the posts and his kicking from hand was very poor. Perhaps we'll see young Ryan Lamb starting next week.
Quins then managed to run in two late tries which gave the score a very harsh skew in favour of the visitors.
On these performances Quins will have to play much better to beat Otley at Cross Green next week, and Bees will have to keep up a good performance to beat a derby winning Plymouth side.
Photos are available
Secondly a big congratulations to the fans. Although this probably wasn't the biggest gate they will witness this season, the Quins fans were great. All singing and all dancing, their support for their team was wonderful, and they were so friendly off the pitch. Well done to all of the locals who turned up as well. Although only about 1000 of the 3000 were local, it is still a significant number. Lets see as many next week then! That's what we need for the team to go forward.
And thirdly a massive thank you to all the players, from both sides for making such a great game to watch.
Bees started off perhaps the brighter and were very unfortunate to fall behind. After a couple of minutes of defending, they set up a good position and recent recruit Cae Trayhern burst through a tackle and run in under the posts. Unfortunately, the noise from the home fans drowned out the referee so it took some a fair while to realise that it had been disallowed for crossing. This wasn't in my opinion a very good decision. I was opposite the incident and didn't (through my rose-tinted specs) see too much wrong. It was a very harsh decision considering Quins got away with one far worse later. Anyway, the penalty stood and Quins ran up the other end and scored pretty much straight away through as Mehrtens made a break and offloaded to outside backs and (H)Ugo Monye ran in the try for Mehrtens to convert.
Mehrtens then set up the second try minutes later which George Harder ran in. This was a very well worked try and Bees really had no way of defending the line that Harder ran.
For the next fourty minutes (20 minutes either side of the break) the Bees played really really well. Defending was organised and tackling was reasonable (given the opposition). The lineout worked quite well until former backrow Ben Gerry came on fairly late in the game. The forwards were scrapping for everything much like at Wasps but the backs didn't really have much to do attacking wise which was a real shame.
The Quins performance was rather error-ridden. Although there was realistically only one winner, it wasn't as emphatic as the score-line suggested.
Quins then ran in another try, once again set up by Mehrtens but the Bees still refused to give up. Walshy slotted another penalty to take the score to 21-6.
All in all I wasn't entirely convinced about Tim Walsh. He missed an sitter in front of the posts and his kicking from hand was very poor. Perhaps we'll see young Ryan Lamb starting next week.
Quins then managed to run in two late tries which gave the score a very harsh skew in favour of the visitors.
On these performances Quins will have to play much better to beat Otley at Cross Green next week, and Bees will have to keep up a good performance to beat a derby winning Plymouth side.
Photos are available
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