After a poor performance last weekend Fleetwood Junior Colts were keen to make amends in the return fixture away at Penrith. Again though the home side started the stronger and scored on 10 minutes. Fleetwood picked up the pace and strong work in the ruck by the impressive Danny Maher and James Cameron gave feisty scrum half Tom Speed the time to get the ball away to the waiting backs. Quick passing through the hands to Kris Phillips saw the centre make ground before being tackled on the home 22. Sloppy defence allowed Penrith a disputed second try against the run of play. This set back stirred Fleet’ and a few minutes later they replied with a try after a cheeky dummy pass from Tom Speed saw him score under the posts. Further pressure from Fleetwood saw a mistake in the home sides back line and Phillips was onto the ball quickly and romped home to get the second try. Tom Evans converted both and the visitors went into halftime with a 14-12 lead.
Fleetwood started the second half brightly enough although a couple of breaks by Tom Evans were not supported well enough and the opportunity was wasted. A combination of tactical naivety and poor decision making gifted Penrith their next try and then the floodgates opened. The home side ruthlessly exploited weak tackling and ran in a further 4 tries with no reply. Definitely a tale of 2 halves. Final score 47 -12
Fleetwood Squad: Birks, Cameron, Cleary, Cowie, J Evans, T Evans, Hird, Foden, Macdonald-Hall, Maher, Morgan, Phillips, Preston, Railton, Ruddlesdin, Speed, Teale, Turner, Walters, Webster, White.
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