By Frank Stormont
September 25 2008

Albion v London Welsh
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19 April 08
London Welsh 22
Plymouth Albion 10

Attendance: = 1037

Albion make the trip to Old Deer Park and chance to continue Albion's come back after hold Pirates to a draw at Camborne. With Warriors only just around the corner playing London Scottish and two coaches of Albion supporters there were many Plymouthians in the Richmond on an overcast Saturday in April.

6 minutes in and the hosts were in the lead after Albion managed to keep their pack from going over the line the passed the ball back to in front of the posts and London Welsh's Mathew Jones to score a drop goal. 

In the 15th minute LW kicked the ball forward and it bounced in our in goal area  the Welsh attack to jump on the ball and claim the 7 points.

With LW down to 14 following a yellow card Albion were unable to take any advantage. LW were in Albion's 22 and Paul Mackey broke through our defence to touch down under the posts.

After a number of infringements at the beginning of the second half Albion were awarded a penalty 7 metres out which Ross kicked. 17 - 3. 

Within 3 minutes of moving to scrum half after a substitution Ed Lewsey picked up his 7th league try of the season when he went over close to the posts.

Albion need to make a step up and find a good team performance against Newbury next week to avoid finishing in the lowest place ever in National League 1 since Graham Dawe became DoR.

Team: Nat Saumi, Ed Lewsey, Arran Cruickshanks, Keni Fisilau, Nic Sestaret, Ross Laidlaw, Nigel Cane, Tim Mathias, James Owen, Scott Zimmerman, Colin Stewart, Tom Hayes, Jannie Bornman, Mike Denbee, Kyle Marriott Replacements: Darren Ritchie(used), Emyr Lewis(used), Daniel Hawkes, Gareth Evans(used), Richard Oxley(used), Brett Stroud(used), Chris Lowrie(used)

Scorers :- Tries Ed Lewsey Penalties Ross Laidlaw Conversions Ross Laidlaw

01 December 07
Plymouth Albion 29
London Welsh 14

Attendance: = 2132

This match saw Albion extend their winning run but showed some good and bad points.

More options were used but all tries were scored by the forwards with Richard getting his first of the season for the 1st team.

With the lights on the match seemed to go on for ages and even felt as though the referee was waiting for Albion to score their bonus point try before blowing up for the end of the match.

London Welsh scored two run in tries through and around the Albion defence in the first half to go into the turn around in the lead.

As has happened a number of times this season Albion step up the pace late in the match to score the required points to collect all 5 points.

Team: Emyr Lewis, Ed Lewsey, Arran Cruickshanks, Brad Davies, Nic Sestaret, Ross Laidlaw, Nigel Cane, Tim Mathias, James Owen, Steve Barretto, Colin Stewart, Ben Gulliver, Tom Hayes, Brett Stroud, Jannie Bornman Replacements: Keni Fisilau, Wihan Neethling, Nat Saumi, Scott Zimmerman, Richard Oxley, Chris Lowrie, Adam Kettle

Scorers :- Tries James Owen Jannie Bornman Richard Oxley Steve Barretto Penalties Ross Laidlaw Conversions 3x Ross Laidlaw

02 December 06
London Welsh 7
Plymouth Albion 55

Albion dominated the whole game going into the turnaround leading by 34 points with London Welsh unable to put a point on the board.

Wihan Neethling was replaced by Nat Saumi on 63 minutes and passed the kicking duties to Ed Barnes for a while before he too was replaced when Regardt van Eyk took on the role and kicked two conversions.

Albion equal their biggest away total set against Blackheath in 2000 and London Welsh concede the most points at home as far as the RFU records are concerned.

Some discussion as to who scored the last try but it goes down to Nigel Cane who got there just before Chris.

Scott Zimmerman scores his first ever try for the club while Chris Lowrie and Ed Barnes score their first tries of the season.

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Team: Wihan Neethling, Tom Arscott, Regardt van Eyk, Keni Fisilau, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Ed Lewsey, Martin Rice, Richard Oxley, Scott Zimmerman, Colin Stewart, Tom Hayes, Federico Genoud, Danny Thomas, Chris Lowrie Replacements: Nigel Cane(used), Arran Cruickshanks(used), Nat Saumi(used), Tim Mathias(used), Francisco Deformes(used), James Owen(used), Brett Stroud(used)

Scorers :- Tries Chris Lowrie Ed Barnes Martin Rice Nic Sestaret Nigel Cane Regardt van Eyk Richard Oxley Scott Zimmerman Tom Arscott Conversions Ed Barnes 2x Regardt van Eyk 2x Wihan Neethling Sin Bin Ed Lewsey

09 September 06
Plymouth Albion 20
London Welsh 12

Attendance: = 2374

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Team: Wihan Neethling, Ed Lewsey, Regardt van Eyk, Keni Fisilau, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Nigel Cane, Martin Rice, Richard Oxley, Scott Zimmerman, Colin Stewart, Ben Gulliver, Brett Stroud, Danny Thomas, Tom Hayes Replacements: David Delaney(used), Nat Saumi, Arran Cruickshanks, Tim Mathias, James Owen, Federico Genoud(used), Chris Lowrie

Scorers :- Tries Martin Rice Penalty Tries Penalty Try Penalties 2x Wihan Neethling Conversions 2x Wihan Neethling

01 April 06
Plymouth Albion 31
London Welsh 10

Attendance: = 2476

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Team: Luke Arscott, Ed Lewsey, Regardt van Eyk, Keni Fisilau, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Nigel Cane, Martin Rice, Stuart Friswell, Ryan Hopkins, Brett Luxton, Tom Hayes, Martin Schusterman, Danny Thomas, Alfie Tooala Replacements: Nat Saumi(used), Chris Lowrie(used), Jon Fabian(used), Matias Albina(used), Alister Livesey(used), Graham Dawe, Nic Rouse(used)

Scorers :- Tries Alfie Tooala Ed Barnes Keni Fisilau 2x Martin Schusterman Conversions 3x Ed Barnes

12 November 05
London Welsh 18
Plymouth Albion 29

Team: Luke Arscott, Jon Fabian, Nat Saumi, Sam Leung Wai, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Nigel Cane, Martin Rice, Stewart Pearl, Scott Zimmerman, Nic Rouse, Tom Hayes, Chris Lowrie, Danny Thomas, Alfie Tooala Replacements: Regardt van Eyk(used), Brett Stroud(used), Graham Dawe(used), Ryan Hopkins(used), Nick Defty, Matt Newman, Ben Rowntree

Scorers :- Tries 2x Nic Sestaret 2x Stewart Pearl Penalties Nat Saumi Conversions 3x Nat Saumi

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