Old Crossleyans Preview

By Dave Picken - February 4 2011
Old Crossleyans Preview
Andrew Foreman has recovered from his dead leg and is in the line up which has the tricky task of overcoming Old Crocs on their own patch ....

But there are changes to the team which ran in six tries against Old Crocs' local rivals last week. Darren Thomas and Stu Waites are both carrying knocks, but fortunately Colin Cheslin has recovered from flu and will be at full back.

Leading try scorer Stephen Stockdale arrived late last week because of work commitments, but he came off the bench to score a second half hat trick. He'll start at No 8 with the versatile Adam Howard biding his time on the bench to come on as an impact player at some point.

Tom Dixon has also recovered from the calf injury he sustained in the warm up at Rovers, and will make his comeback for the Stags at home to Boro - Ben Lloyd continuing in the second row for the firsts after some solid displays. Carl Miller  is unavailable.

It's all change on the bench though. Davy Tighe and Simon Cavey come in to provide the backs cover.

On the Old Crocs's tight pitch its likely to be another forwards battle . The home front row is a formidable force with 45 year old prop Andy Day now  well past the 600 game mark for his club. By contrast the West front row must be the youngest in the league with 25 year old Anth Carr the "veteran."

We won the first encounter 23-3 with Old Crocs not enjoying much territory while tackling their socks off. It was windy that day too with the West pack putting on an outstanding display into the gale in the second half. They may need to do the same in Halifax.

Old Crocs: 15 Chris Seymour,  14. Joe Baker, 13. Jack Hammond, 12. Neil Richardson, 11. Leigh Thomas 10. Chris Jones, 9. James Wainwright, 1. Mark Palmer, 2. Richard Wheale, 3. Andrew Day, 4. Rory Davis, 5. Kev McGill, 6. Navneet Sembi, 7. Simon Normanton, 8. Daniel Temm, 16. Tom Earle, 17. Richard Heighington
18. Tom Hammond

West: 15 Colin Cheslin, 14 Adam Larkin, 13 Luke Watson, 12 Gavin Robinson, 11 Andrew Cheslin, 10 Gareth Foreman, 9 Andrew Foreman, 1 Anth Carr, 2 Liam Bailey, 3 Adam Coates, 4 Ben Lloyd, 5 Andrew Davies, 6 Dan Boatman, 7 Jon Boatman [c], 8 Stephen Stockdale,  16 Adam Howard, 17 Davy Tighe, 18 Simon Cavey.

 

 

 

 

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Old Crossleyans Preview
Posted by: Official West Hartlepool RFC (IP Logged)
Date: 04/02/2011 10:07


Re: Old Crossleyans Preview
Posted by: West Park Allotment (IP Logged)
Date: 04/02/2011 15:44

Got to show the same discipline, work rate and spirit as last week.
Trouble with being up at the top of the league is everyone sees you as a big scalp and lifts their game but that's a nice problem to have.
Good luck to all our teams.

Re: Old Crossleyans Preview
Posted by: die harder (IP Logged)
Date: 04/02/2011 15:58

Mossy`s not injured he`s playing for the stags.....

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