A good warm up and preparation was quickly undone as Sussex conceded within 30 seconds but a clever through ball undid them again and the Worthing striker’s miss hit shot spun into the top corner. The remainder of the half saw Sussex create a few chances but with no luck. At half time they had [..[...]
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Rugby: Sussex Downs College (Eastbourne) v Collyers (2nd) 48-19
Sussex Downs Eastbourne started at a pace but it was a bit of a wake up call then when the Collyers’ scrum half ran through some loose tackling from a scrum to open the scoring after 7 minutes. However, before too long Harry Wills returned the complement from a maul and although Collyers’ defenc[...]
Rugby: Sussex Downs College (Eastbourne) v Central (Haywards Heath) 45-6
It took Sussex Downs ten minutes to open the scoring with Central gifting field position, having conceded a couple of penalties. We moved it right and from the resulting ruck in front of the posts, fly-half, Jeremy Burdett, stepped inside the defence to score a try which he duly converted. Central c[...]
Rugby: Sussex Downs (Eastbourne) v’s Central Sussex Rugby team 15-36
The hosts opened the scoring after fifteen minutes, when they ran a stray kick back for an unconverted try. Bettles was tackled just short of the line and O’Donnell picked up to go over round the blind side. The levelling of the scores came at a cost however with Bettles having to leave the pith [[...]
Rugby: Sussex Downs (Eastbourne) v Sussex Downs College Lewes 2s 52-0
This friendly opener to the season was always going to be straight-forward with the opposition’s 1st XV having to play a Daily Mail tie elsewhere. Early exchanges revealed rustiness on both sides but Eastbourne were quicker to pull their game together and once they started scoring there was only g[...]