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By Dave Picken - March 25 2011
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Dan Boatman
Driffield willl arrive at Brinkburn in the unusual position of having to fight for their lives to avoid the drop. With only three games left they may need to win all of their games to stay up and promise to be much tougher opposition than City were last week ...

We have already experienced the Driffield resilience when we went into a 22 point half time lead at Kelleythorpe only to stop tackling and let them come back into a game which we were relieved to see finish 22-17. Yellow cards for Stephen Stockdale and Gav Robinson didn't help the cause.

Darren Thomas retains his place at full back, after an enterprising show against City, with Colin Cheslin on the bench. Carl Miller starts in the second row in place of Chocky Davies who is serving a one match suspension after the sending off at Pontefract.

Otherwise it is the same side which ran in 15 ties against hapless City last week.The front row and back row row remain the same with both Jonny and Danny Boatman in superb form together with Stephen Stockdale. He was probably the only one last week not to be too impressed with Gareth Foreman's 5 try haul. The big No 8 had been luxuriating in his place at the top of the try scoring board but will now have to get a few more himself.

There are interesting selections on the bench with Paul Rudd returning after his long lay-off, and the dynamic back row Luke Mills stepping up to the first team squad.

Luke, the son of Mini and Junior's Chairman Tony, has spent most of the season with the Bucks but has also impressed with the Stags who have a strong squad to take on Tynedale at Brinkburn in the CaNDY league decider.

West: 15 Darren Thomas 14 Andrew Cheslin 13 Luke Watson 12 Gavin Robinson 11 Adam Larkin 10 Gareth Foreman 9  Andrew Foreman 1  Adam Coates 2  Andrew Dixon 3  Jon Norris  4  Carl Miller 5  Tom Dixon 6  Dan Boatman 7  Jon Boatman (Capt) 8  Stephen Stockdale  16 Colin Cheslin 17 Paul Rudd 18 Luke Mills.

Driffield: 15 Lee Birch 14 Sam Furbank 13 Danny Smith 12 Tom Wright 11 Alisdair McClarron 10 Harvey Harding 9  Craig Gray 1  Henry Waterhouse 2  James Holland 3  Dave Llewellyn 4  Oliver Borman 5  Oliver Cooper 6 Ashley Hedges 7  Jimmy Stephenson [capt] 8 Rob Hamilton  16 Richard Mitchell-Williams 17 John Dervey 18 James Short

 

 
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