HEREFORD RFC head coach Dean Powell was left reflecting on ‘silly errors’ as his side suffered a narrow 26-24 defeat at Edwardians.
Hereford were unlucky to end up losing narrowly, but had the consolation of two bonus points.
Powell said: “If we didn’t make so many silly errors, like knock ons and missing touch from penalty kicks, we would have won the game.
“Those are the things we need to get better, silly basic errors, if we can get those right against Silhillians next week we can’t go far wrong.
“Man of the Match was Stephan Dyers with two tries and some amazing cover tackles. All in all, I’m very pleased with the result, with three minutes to go and down 26-19 I would have taken that, after all we have had little success recently over Edwardians.
“Our backs played some really enterprising rugby and scored two of our four tries from our own line. It’s a pity we came up short in the end, but can take pleasure in the two bonus points.”
Hereford started well but a silly error at the back of a lineout gifted Edwardians a scrum, their number eight picked up and ran through some pretty sloppy tackles to score.
The conversion gave the hosts a seven-point lead which they held until half time.
Edwardians opened the second half with a nice three-quarter try, the ball going through good hands to score in the corner, increasing their lead to 12 points.
The Wyesiders then stepped up a gear and some good play in mid-field led to the ball moving wide to Steph Dyers, who with pace and good footwork sliced through the Edwardians defence for the first Hereford try. Josh Wright added the conversion to reduce the arrears to five points.
A chip ahead from Wright was gathered by Harry Sockett coming through at pace and some inter-play with Dyers and Sockett saw Wright touch down in the corner. Wright’s conversion gave Hereford the lead by 12-14.
However, the lead was short-lived as three minutes later Edwardians replied with a converted try, 19-14.
Dyers put in a long kick ahead which he followed up, recovered and put Ewan Duncan over for the third try. The conversion attempt was wide, but the score was level 19-19.
With minutes to go, Joe Vaugan had a yellow card for a deliberate knock on. Edwardians got into their visitors 22 again, they moved the ball wide to their very good centre who scored and the conversion took the score to 26-19.
Well into injury time Hereford were awarded a penalty, the Wyesiders kicked to the corner and from the driving lineout the ball was moved along the line to Dyers who scored a fourth and bonus try. The final score was 26 – 24 and Hereford also took a losing bonus point.
The 1870s had a good 55-26 win over Evesham II, tries were scored by Ben Gillett x2, Ben Hyde, Sam Johnson, Jamie Hodges, Sam Roberts, Rupeni Viseinavanua, Harrison Jones and Alfie Skyrme. Ryan Whitnall made seven conversions.
Next week HRFC welcome Silhillians to Wyeside kick off 3pm and a 2/3XV entertain Malvern in a friendly.
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