Moseley 22 Coventry 20
By Roger Clarke, Birmingham Mail February 11 2008
Moseley were leading 22-12 at the time, and when the dust had settled, their centre Gary Trueman, on loan from Worcester, and Coventry flanker Danny Hodge were shown the red card. Worse was to come for Moseley when flanker Neil Mason was sin-binned and Coventry launched a furious assault on the Moseley line.
Moseley were leading 22-12 at the time, and when the dust had settled, their centre Gary Trueman, on loan from Worcester, and Coventry flanker Danny Hodge were shown the red card. Worse was to come for Moseley when flanker Neil Mason was sin-binned and Coventry launched a furious assault on the Moseley line.
Player-coach Brett Davey slotted over a penalty then set up wing Tom Slater to cut the deficit to two but that was as close as they got.
Coventry, who went into administration last week, started well when Hodge went over after 17 minutes and Davey made it 7-0.
The visitors could, and really should, have made much more of their opening but they didn't and when fly-half Neil Stenhouse landed a penalty on the half-hour Moseley had weathered the storm. In added time hooker Ross McMillan was driven over from a line-out and Sten-house added the extras.
Mason then scampered over from 30 yards and suddenly Moseley were 17-7 up at the break.
On 50 minutes No.8 Laurie McGlone went over for 17-12 but Moseley came back with a try from wing Nathan Bressington, which was enough to seal the game.
Moseley had been forced to reshuffle with Dan Norton away with England Under-20s and Jack Forster, Jack Adams, Charlie Sharples and Ali James recalled by Gloucester for their clash with Leicester, which made the victory even more pleasing for coach Ian Smith.
He said: "It was a typical derby. Both sides struggled to find any shape or continuity; it was just a bit of a battle which we won.
"We had far too many errors in the first 20 minutes, which they should have got more from. We defended when we had to and we scored some nice tries. We did not play as we aspire to but sometimes that is what happens.
"It was not a good rugby performance but it showed some character. It was good for part of our squad to play as well. We brought people in and we won in what was a difficult game."
MOSELEY: Binns; Bressington, Hayes, Trueman, Trinder; Stenhouse, Taylor; N Williams (Buxton, 66), McMillan (Caves, 55), Sigley, Arnold, Stott, Mason, Atkinson (Bignell, 58), Rodwell. Replacements: Evans, D Williams, Lewis, Macdonald
COVENTRY: Toft; Johnson, Cobden, Kiri-some, Parry (Slater, 42); Davey, Jones; Maddocks (Rimmer 54), Whitehead, Brits, O Hodge, Nimmo, D Hodge, Clayton, McGlone. Replacements: Friswell, Dugard, Whitehall, Walls, McLean.
Referee: Ashley Rowden (RFU).
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StumbleuponRe: Moseley 22 Coventry 20
Posted by: DaveAitch (IP Logged)
Date: 2008:02:12:01:22:15
I thought Coventry had won. NCA is still reporting the score as 20:22 in Coventry's favour. Not for the first time has NCA or the RFU results service got it wrong.
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