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Seniors
- Salcombe First XV lose to South Molton (9-24)
- Salcombe First XV beat Buckfastleigh (28-20)
- Salcombe First XV lose to South Molton (28-43)
- Salcombe First XV lose to Plymstock Albion Oaks (20-25)
- Salcombe First XV lose to OPM (11-27)
- Salcombe First XV beat North Tawton (20-7)
- Salcombe First XV draw Wessex (13-13)
- Salcombe First XV lose to New Cross (0-24)
- Salcombe First XV lose to St. Just (15-34)
- Salcombe First XV beat Topsham (24-22)
- Salcombe First XV beat Buckfastleigh (7-3)
- Salcombe First XV lose to St. Columba (15-20)
- Salcombe First XV lose to Plymstock Albion Oaks (8-16)
- Salcombe First XV lose to OPM (19-33)
- Salcombe First XV beat Dartmouth (30-22)
- Salcombe First XV beat New Cross (13-11)
- Salcombe Second XV beat Paignton III (40-29)
- Salcombe First XV lose to Wessex (3-19)
- Salcombe First XV lose to Wessex (10-27)
- Salcombe First XV lose to Topsham (15-27)
- Salcombe First XV beat Topsham (21-17)
- Salcombe First XV beat St. Columba (14-10)
- Salcombe Second XV lose to DHSOB (17-27)
- Salcombe First XV beat New Cross (26-20)
- Salcombe First XV beat South Molton (24-13)
- Salcombe First XV beat South Molton (17-7)
Juniors
- Salcombe U7 beat Newton Abbot (15-12)
- Salcombe U8 beat Stonehouse Sharks (12-9)
- Salcombe U7 lose to Stonehouse Sharks (7-9)
- Salcombe U8 draw Plymstock Oaks (10-10)
- Salcombe U7 lose to Plymstock Oaks (13-17)
- Salcombe U8 beat Totnes (8-0)
- Salcombe U7 lose to Totnes (6-10)
- Salcombe U8 beat Torquay (8-7)
- Salcombe U7 beat Torquay (14-12)
- Salcombe U9 lose to OPM (25-45)
- Salcombe U8 beat OPM (11-4)
- Salcombe U7 draw OPM (10-10)
- Salcombe U8 beat Devonport (11-4)
- Salcombe U7 beat Devonport (11-7)
- Salcombe U8 lose to Torquay (3-9)
- Salcombe U7 lose to Torquay (6-9)
- Salcombe U11 beat Totnes (53-28)
- Salcombe U9 played Totnes (score unrecorded)
- Salcombe U8 beat Totnes (6-3)
- Salcombe U7 lose to Totnes (4-5)
- Salcombe U11 beat Stonehouse Sharks (61-7)
- Salcombe U9 lose to Stonehouse Sharks (30-60)
- Salcombe U8 beat Stonehouse Sharks (6-5)
- Salcombe U7 beat Stonehouse Sharks (8-3)
- Juniors Newsletter Sept 2011
Salcombe First XV lose to Topsham (15-27)
A week is a long time in rugby! Topsham came with a stronger side than last week, especially up front, and Salcombe were weakened by attendance at a wedding. Come on guys don't let your other halves commit you on Saturdays in the season and especially not on league matches.
That said Salcombe still fielded a strong side and the causes of their downfall lay entirely in their own hands. Topsham only created one good try; the other two were gifted to them by Salcombe mistakes. All the old favourites were there: dropped balls, poor kicks, panic stricken offloads and questionable decision making.
It was evident right from the start that the visitors were much stronger in the forwards than the week before and that this area of the game was going to be much more even. Salcombe's cause was not helped by an early injury to Neil Elliott at hooker which meant he had to drop back to flanker before eventually being forced to go off completely. His place at hooker was taken by the starting flanker Kevin Wreyford and when Elliott went off Nick Trant came on at 2nd row with James Palmer moving from there back to flanker. All this change rather upset the balance of the Crab's pack who nevertheless managed to rescue the situation on three occasions in the first 20 minutes when errors at the back gave Topsham great field position well inside the Crab's 22. Chris Drew's touch finding was as ever spot on once the forwards had rescued the ball and in a cameo performance as a blood replacement for Lewis Winzer, coach Mark Lidstone showed he was still no slouch at the kicking game.
The deadlock was broken, somewhat against the run of play when a good box kick from scrum half Winzer was gathered at pace by wing Mark Parnowski. Topsham snuffed out the immediate threat but field position had been established and from the breakdown a chip ahead was well juggled by Palmer to give flanker Ian Smerdon the touchdown. The difficult conversion failed but once again Drew made up for it quickly with a penalty to give Salcombe an 8-0 lead. However just before half time an error in the backs gave Topsham the opportunity to score to make it 8-7 at the break.
The visitors started off the second half at a gallop kicking a penalty and then following a Salcombe dropped ball in midfield they scored a converted try to take the score to 8- 17 to Topsham. Salcombe responded well with a great rumble through the forwards and after Salcombe had been held up over the line several times Palmer found a way over by the posts which Drew duly converted to bring the score back to 15-17. Topsham then kicked a penalty before showing what a combination of hard running and slick passing could do by tearing the Crab's defence to bits. Only a try saving tackle by Liam Wills kept Topsham out but the recycled ball allowed the visitors to set up yet another good move by their backs who crossed for the try under the posts. The conversion brought up the final score of 15-27 to Topsham.
Next week its the first of two visits in successive weeks to Wessex. This Saturday its league, ko 3.0 pm, and the following week its Devon Cup round 1. Salcombe hope to take both the 1s and 2s to Wessex but some of the 2s players will need to show a bit more commitment to away games as this week's game against Topsham had to be cancelled with only 5 players willing to make the trip.
