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Division Three East

Twenty-five unanswered points in a scintillating second half secured a second successive bonus point win for Tillery. A first minute try and five penalties had given the visitors a handy 12-point interval lead, but Brynmawr were blitzed after the break as Tillery totally dominated every facet of play to sew up an excellent win.

The good-sized crowd for this derby game had hardly settled when Brynmawr snatched a very early lead through a try in the corner that was excellently converted.

Haile reduced the deficit with a seventh-minute penalty, but as in the last couple of games Tillery were somewhat ill-disciplined and the visitors, who were working hard up front with a physical display, took full advantage with a great kicking display by Matthew Jones who slotted two rapid fire penalties to stretch the lead to 13-3.

From the restart, Pegler gathered the ball and at last Tillery pressurised the visitors defence in their 22. Brynmawr were forced to concede two penalties and the decision to go for touch with each rather than goal was rewarded as Dafydd Jones shrugged off a knock to crash over for a converted try.

Brynmawr continued to impress in the loose with some determined running from their forwards and reaped their just desserts as Tillery were penalised for Jones to add a further three penalty kicks for a useful 22-10 lead, with Tillery’s Kyle Griffiths sin-binned for a late challenge for the last of these.

H-T 10-22

Tillery needed a good start to the second period if they were get back in contention and they got it as Nicky Stevens showed a good footballing brain to latch onto a neat kick from Darren Miles and chip ahead beyond the visitors’ defence for Jamie Davies to win the foot race and touchdown.

Haile missed with the conversion but confidently slotted a penalty moments later as Kyle Griffiths scattered the opposition defence with a bullocking run.

The Green & Whites were now in full flow with Dafydd Cripps and Matthew Phelps putting extreme pressure on their opposite numbers in the scrum and Greg Lane winning consistent line out ball, and Tillery set up a series of driving mauls which resulted in David Rossiter going over for a try that gave Tillery a one point lead.

The home dominance was now overwhelming and Brynmawr were struggling as Pegler pulled the strings with the ball made available by the home pack. Nicky Stevens again showed clever thinking as he kept the ball in play with a skilful fly hack and the impressive Justin Phelps enveloped the defender to ensure that the visitors could only concede a five-metre scrum.

The home eight demolished the opposition pack at the scrum and Kyle Griffiths controlled the ball for a pushover try. Haile added the points but was off target minutes later as he pushed a penalty wide.

The final word scoring wise went to Aled Penn as he worked the ball cleverly with Pegler to create space and rounded the move several phases later off in the corner.

Website Abertillery M-o-M: Dafydd Cripps

October 29 2011

SCINTILLATING SECOND HALF SHOW SECURES SUPER WIN

Abertillery (10) 35 Brynmawr (22) 22

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Results - 29 October 2011