Yesterday was a turning point in Irish Ladies Rugby for Enniskillen Ladies Rugby. It was brutal! Big Irish security forces personnel as with so many of the fire and police sides. The Garda had a big pack but Enniskillen are no wiafs either and boy did Enniskillen front up in an electric display, a massively hard fought game. Tackle around the legs, take then down by the legs was the rallying call from the pitch and that is exactly what happened. Time and time again the oppostion ran at the skins and time again the tackles went in, then the reorganisation in defence was like lightning, the ladies adopting drift defence and pressure defence, smoothering the attacks …….. but the ladies had their own sustained periods of possession, on the balance probably the majority of possession.
ATLEAST 3 BALLS AGAINST THE HEAD!
ATLEAST 2 LINEOUTS DISRUPTED TURNING OVER POSSESSION!
ATLEAST 10 TURNOVER RUCKS!
ATLEAST 100+ SUCCESSFUL TACKLES
3 TRIES, A CONVERSION!
LINE BREAKS THROUGHOUT!
ATLEAST 25 OffLoads From The Tackle!
Skins scored first in a tantilising display of backs skills the platform of course set by props, 2nd rows and back rows with the scrumhalf spreading the ball into close quarters combat, then out to the backs, tracking, all the time the ladies are tracking the ball carriers, fast ball, fast ball, offloads coming from centres and back rows and all the players obviously bringing the Nick Williams skill set into their game, then the backs, with Etna “Bolt” cutting undoubtly the sweetest lines in Irish womens rugby this season.
Lets not forget, the Garda have cancelled games, they had a strategy, they were building, they had targeted this game. Well, the Skins ladies are a TEAM, they will not let you bully them. They work for each other, they see the space, they see the weaknesses, they ATTACK.
In defence outstanding. Some of these Garda were 3 times heavier than most of the skins team. It made no difference, Skins got lower and wrapped their arms around their legs and they came crashing down.
After skins scored 3 supreme tries, in the dying seconds of the game the big Garda pack had a scrum on the Skins 5 metre line with the chance to win the game. The SKINS SCRUM TOOK THE GARDA BALL AGAINST THE HEAD WHERE THE SCRUM HALF KICKED THE BALL INTO TOUCH AND THE SUPPORTERS AND PLAYERS ERUPTED INTO CHEERS OF DELIGHT!
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