Fixture

Saturday September 7th 2019

Maesteg Quins 8 - 22 Glamorgan Wanderers

WRU Championship

After an impressive start, scoring a try in the first five minutes with a sustained movement, the Quins were nullified and then overtaken by a clinical Glamorgan Wanderers.

Nathan Smith marked his century of matches by scoring the openining try, before penalties were swapped between Matthew Harris and visiting scrum-half Short for a half-time score of 8-3 to the hosts..

Sadly, idiotic indiscipline played right into the hands of the Wanderers who needed no second invitation to accept the gilt edged opportunities to clear their lines, build scoring opportunities and guffaw at the indiscretions that cancelled out clear scoring chances, plus several attacking opportunities.

Ryan Lovett was the star man for the Quins. He made a scintillating thirty yards break and was and was into the Wanderers twenty-five. With every liklihood he'd score, play was brought back for a needless jersey pull.

This would have done a great deal to buoy home morale as within minutes of the restart, Wanderers had taken the lead with a Short try and conversion.

The Ely based side would not look back. Impetuous penalties allowed Short to boot twelve more points, some from extra ordinary distances, to claim all his team's twenty-two points leave Quins way, way behind.

Twelve months ago the Quins produced a similar undisciplined performance and paid the price. They recovered. It's just a shame the same traits were again to raise their ugly head and lessons have to be re-learned when so much good actually came from the game. A new found creativity being one of them.

Next week Llanelli visit South Parade in the Specsavers WRU Cup.

Nantyffyllon II 7 - 12 Quins II

With twenty-one unavailabilities, thirteen man Quins 2nds travelled to Maesteg Welfare Park and came back with a great win, Young tight-head Ethan Longley showed up particularly well and marked his debut with a try to become the first millennial to do so. Fellow prop Dan Tabor also rounded off a fine performance with a try and lock Rhys Morgan was a real livewire. Robbie Morris converted one of the tries to seal a functional win.