Maidenhead Colts 36 v Amersham & Chiltern Colts 0
Sunday 7th October 2007

Last Sunday saw the Maidenhead Colts take on the Colts from Amersham & Chilton. This is always a keenly contested game at Colts level and our boys were looking to avenge a narrow defeat from last year

The A & C team had arrived early and spent 2 hours warming up before the game, whilst the Maidenhead team were not quite so keen to shake off the excesses of celebrating an England win from the day before (or certainly the coaches needed a kick start !!). With Maidenhead able to welcome back some boys from both the Colts and the under 17's from last year we were able to go into this match with a full squad

The Amersham team certainly had a few large (Sheridan like ) units throughout their team so as is always the case with Maidenhead (smaller) teams we were looking to move the ball at pace around the park from the off

This didn't happen for the first 10 mins as Maidenhead were drawn into a tough forward struggle and the A & C boys using Hernandes tactics to get the ball down the park. Eventually the play started to break up and Maidenhead were given a penalty on the A&C 10 metre line, which Ross Pepper quickly tapped and ran in untouched. At 5-0 down the Amersham boys gave it a really big effort to score but some fantastic resolute defence by Maidenhead just kept Amersham from scoring with some very clever 'held up's' on our line.Their inability to convert the pressure into points seemed to drain the Amersham boys of their confidence and they became clumsy in some of their play

Maidenhead were awarded a penalty in the corner and kicked for the line out. A great take and drive saw the forwards rewarded with a well rehearsed try.  Just before half time a good move down the right wing saw Ross Pepper once again out sprint the Amersham Defence for a try in the corner, this was brilliantly converted by Callum McKenzie

In the second half Maidenhead really took control and started to run the ball around at will. It was great fun to watch and Maidenhead's skipper James Henley took the opportunity to score a hat trick of tries with a great display of power running on the right wing. Maidenhead ended up winners 36 points to nil, their second clean sheet of the season