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HOWELLS MAKES CHANGES FOR KNIGHTS VISIT TO LEAGUE LEADERS LEEDS
For their match away against unbeaten league leaders Leeds Carnegie at Headingley on Saturday, Doncaster’s Director of Rugby Lynn Howells makes four changes from the team that easily beat struggling Sedgley Park last weekend.
Doncaster Knights change both their props with Richard List returning in place of Tongan international Toma Toke, who suffered a serious knee injury last weekend, and Tonga’s most capped prop Ngalu Ta’u starting in place of former Leeds player, and ex-Doncaster youth star, Michael Cusack. In the backs former Leeds winger Chris Hughes will be looking to do well against his old club after replacing Donavan Van Vuuren whilst Chris Hallam gets the nod at scrum half over Jamie Albinson.
Knights previous two encounters with Leeds were two seasons ago and they lost both matches in spite of being in the lead after 50 minutes on each occasion. At Headingley, the Knights were leading by 18 points to 11 when “the key moment in the game occurred. Leeds had overkicked a long ball, which ran dead, and presented the Knights with an attacking scrum in the Tykes half. With the left side loaded, quick ball in that direction saw an overlap with space but Paul Bailey’s “scoring” pass to Van Vuuren was laboured, Richard Welding intercepted it, and ran 80 metres unopposed for the simplest of tries that Hinton converted.” At home the Knights were leading by 13 points to 9 and “the lead should have been extended a minute later as Gollings’ tackle forced a holding on penalty but he himself then missed the 38 metre kick. The Tykes riposte was swift, though, as a rapid backs move saw Jonny Hepworth straighten the line to make room for a scoring pass to Richard Welding on his outside. Hinton converted the wide kick and the Knights’ lead had lasted just five minutes.”. Here’s hoping that we get ourselves in the same position as on both of these occasions, and as indeed we did against Pirates only two weeks ago, but with the difference being that this time that we press on to win!
The Knight’s team:
15. A Carter, 14. W Davies, 13. H Tonga'uiha, 12. B Armitage, 11. C Hughes, 10. J Lennard, 9. C Hallam, 1. R List, 2. S Jenkins, 3. N Tau, 4. B Griffiths, 5. G Kenworthy (C), 6. J Afu, 7. S Grainger, 8. C Planchant.
Replacements: M Cusack, T Davies, D Smith, N Cochrane, J Albinson, A Warnock, G Hughes.
Leeds Carnegie team:
15. L Hinton, 14. R Welding, 13. J Hepworth, 12. S Barrow, 11. T Biggs, 10. J Strange, 9. J Bedford, 1. M MacDonald (C), 2. R Rawlinson, 3. T McGee, 4. P Murphy, 5. J Pendleury, 6. K Myall, 7. H Fourie, 8. R Oakley.
Replacements: P Bucknall, P Nilsen, J Dunbar, C Clark, S Mathie, H Paul, R Vickerman.
Live Updates to follow.
1 min: Knights awarded first penalty of the afternoon, but decision is reversed by referee giving Strange his first chance to kick at goal, which he makes. (0-3)
4 mins: Leeds penalised giving Jamie Lennard a chance to make the scores even, his penalty kick goes wide. (0-3)
7 mins: Leeds penalised for pulling down, Jamie Lennad has a second chance to bring the scores level, which is narrowly wide again. (0-3)
9 mins: Chris Planchant break away from a scrum, feeding Hudson who makes a great run but loses the ball in contact. Leeds now have a scrum 10 metres out infront of the sticks. (0-3)
11 mins: Doncaster attacking a line out midway into the Leeds half, which they win & set up Jamie Lennard for a drop goal attempt that is on target but falls a metre short. (0-3)
14 mins: Leeds caught offside, Jamie Lennard has another chance to kick Doncaster level, this time it's wide the other side of the posts tho. (0-3)
16-18 mins: Doncaster sucessfully defend a line out on their 5 metre line & Jamie Lennard kicks the ball upfield. Doncaster steal the ball at the resulting line out, Jamie Lennard kicks downfield to their fullback who passes wide only for Bevon Armitage to intercept & run 30 metres to touch down under posts. Jamie Lennard adds the conversion. (7-3)
21 mins: Doncaster having a good passage of play in the Leeds half, Leeds penalised for being offside & Rhys Oakley is sent to the bin. Jamie Lennard kicks the resulting penalty. (10-3)
24 mins: Doncaster win a line out in the Leeds half, they set up Jamie Lennard for a drop goal which this time he makes. (13-3)
28 mins: Antony Carter clears the ball for Doncaster, kicking the ball deep into the Leeds half. Leeds restart the game only for Jamie Lennard to kick the ball deep into their half, forcing Leeds to defend a line out on their 22. (13-3)
31mins: Doncaster penalised just in their own half, Leeds really seem to have sparked into life & are only metres from the line but are penalised for holding on by the referee & Doncaster have the chance to clear the ball up field. (13-3)
33-36 mins: Doncaster penalised on half way for a player going straight to ground. Leeds have a line out the Doncaster twenty two line. Leeds win the line out & start to attack, the ref stops the game and Leeds have a scrum. Leeds win the scrum and spread the ball wide, but the Doncaster defence holds firm & come out with a scrum of their own. (13-3)
37 mins: Doncaster penalised at the scrum Leeds gave a penalty on the five metre line, they take the srum and win it, spreading the ball wide to the right for Leigh Hinton to score. The conversion is put wide by Strange. (13-8)
39mins: After exchanging possesion for a couple of minutes, Doncaster come away with the ball and are making good strides into the Leeds half, now the forwards have the ball just a metre short of the line, but they lose the ball & Leeds run it out. Hudson & Bevon bring the attack to an end by forcing the winger into touch. (13-8)
40+ mins: Leeds have possesion & have made it right down the Doncaster end of the pitch, now up to the 5 metre line. Chris Hallam goes for the ball but is penalised. Jason Strange has a penalty kick right infront of the posts and makes no mistakes. The referee blows to bring the half to an end. (13-11)
HALF TIME.
Jamie Albinson & Michael Cusack replace Chris Hallam & Ngalu Tau for the second half.
42 mins: Leeds applying good pressure early in the second half, Antony Carter being forced into touch. Doncaster win the ball at the resulting & clear the ball down field. Leeds kick the ball back giving Doncaster a line out just into the Leeds half, they win the ball but lose posession thanks to a knock on. (13-11)
45 mins: Wes Davies sent to the sin bin after a big hit on one of the Leeds players. Jason Strange has a penalty and the chance to give Leeds the lead, but his kick goes wide. (13-11)
48-52 mins: Doncaster penalised again for what appeared to be a good hard hit by Bryn Griffiths. Leeds now have a line out deep in the Doncaster half, they've won the ball but Doncaster defend well. Leeds have the ball and are attacking again tho. Leeds lose the ball via a knock on out wide, but Doncaster are penalised for a earlier infringement. Strange kicks to the corner, Leeds win the line out & pass the ball back to their hooker to touch down right on the corner. Strange adds the conversion (13-18)
55 mins: Doncaster defending a line out on their five metre line, the throw is not straight & Leeds have a scrum, that they've won & have spread the ball into the middle of the pitch. Doncaster are penalised again by the referee & Richard List is sent to the bin only a matter of seconds after Wes Davies had re-entered the field. Jason Strange opts for the kick, which he makes. (13-21)
60 mins: Leeds have pinched the ball after a Doncaster line out on half way, they gain twenty metres or so and lose possesion. Jamie Lennard has got the ball away to midway into the Leeds half thanks to a great kick. Leeds take the ball at the line out but are penalised by the referee, Jamie Lennard has his first penalty attempt of the second half, but puts it wide of the posts. (13-21)
65 mins: Doncaster have stolen possesion from Leeds in their own half & Ali Warnock just on, kicks the ball upfield. Leeds kick the ball straight back & this time Doncaster are running the ball forward until Tom Davies come up with a knock on. (13-21)
69 mins: Leeds score after a good run from Leigh Hinton. Jason Strange steps up for the conversion and puts in straight between the posts. (13-28)
72 mins: After break forward well Doncaster lose the ball as they are penalised by the referee, Leeds win the resulting line out, but are then penalised by the ref for what looked like it was holding on. Ali Warnock onfailed to find touch with this kick to the corner & Leeds restart the game from their twenty two. (13-28)
77 mins: After withstanding five minutes of good pressure from Leeds, Doncaster came away with the ball from a scrum & started to take the ball forward, after the forward had made good groud they spread it wide to Antony Carter. After coming infield, the ball was lost & Leeds broke well down the near right side throught their winger, who was put into touch.
80+mins: Leeds win a scrum in the Doncaster half, they've passes it out wide as they try to get the fourth try but have lost the ball & now Doncaster have a scrum, which they win beak out through Bevon Armitage, he is stopped illegally & Doncaster have a penalty, they take it quickly only to lose the ball, but Leeds do the same as one of the players throws the ball too wide into touch. As Doncaster were starting to take the ball forward after halting a final Leeds attack, the referee blew his whistle for FULL TIME.
Attendance at Headingly: 3,415.
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