Guernsey Press

Guernsey Raiders 26, Tonbridge Juddians 36

THE coach promised 'a bit of fun' from his players and for the first half of this highly entertaining game at Footes Lane against title-chasing Tonbridge Juddian, that is exactly what they had.

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With just two minutes of the first half remaining Raiders, despite being shorn of a whole XV from their senior squad, led 21-14, and the home side were dancing to the creative tune of their maestro at full-back, Luke Sayer.

Then, with virtually the final play of the half, Tonbridge exploited Raiders' weakness on the flanks and a two-point lead at the interval was subsequently and, perhaps predictably, overcome in the second period as Raiders run out of steam.

But behind his flourishingly bushy beard, coach Jordan Reynolds could not have been much prouder than he was beyond the final whistle.

'We are not disappointed with that performance at all,' said the Australian, who said that considering he had 16 players out it was a great effort.

'Sixteen out and we still annihilated them in the first half,' he chirped.

'We threw a bit of ball around in that first half and if we had a full strength team always and played like that, we'd hammer teams,' the coach added.

'We showed some real quality.'

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