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League, Home 25th October 2008 Won 59-17   Starting 15     1 Porty 2 TinTin 3 Tom Tom 4 H 5 Bavers 6 Dan 7 Chemist 8 Big Gay Al 9 Jerry 10 James 11 SOAP 12 Bosh 13 ChiChi 14 Tunde 15 Yiddley     Impact Players     16 Debs 17 Alfie 18   19   20   21   22	The home crowd was treated to nine tries and a superb display of exciting rugby, as the Norfolk maintain an unbeaten home record for the season. Although the pack suffered a difficult start with several people out of position, it did not take long for usual service to resume. A McMichael mistake gave Heathfield a 5 metre scrum but the pack responded and put pressure on the push allowing Jez Stewart to disrupt the ball at the base and the Norfolk were able to clear. After about 5 minutes of even play and both teams testing the other out, the Norfolk disrupted another Heathfield scrum and the reward was a put in on the opposition 22. The backs demonstrated their intent with their first opportunity, Newark sent McMichael through a gap and he then fed Osibogun who rounded two defenders to score. Several more minutes of pressure resulted in a five metre scrum on the Heathfield line, a good shove from the Heathfield pack disrupted the planned move and Hoare knocked on at the base. The front five would not take no for an answer though and won the following scrum against the head with a huge drive and this time Ali Hoare made no mistake in picking up and barging over the line. Hoare went close again only moments later but some handy work on the floor prevented a second phase which would have resulted in a score. Excellent handling was responsible for the next score when McMichael fielded a kick, passed to Robotham who beat three defenders before a superbly timed offload to release Baldwin for his second in two games. McMichael nailed the kick to end the half 17-3, a penalty the only points for the visitors. The second half performance was at times spectacular and although the Heathfield defence was at times found wanting, the lines of running and passing were first class and with options all over the pitch every attack was made effective. Robinson was next to score the first of his two tries in a fine individual performance, good line out ball set the backs up with front foot ball and after White had smashed a hole, Robinson was eager to go through it and nobody was eager to tackle him. Robotham scored another fine try of his own with a forty metre dash following a good kick-chase from Baldwin. Robinson again went through some unhappy defenders to score his second but then Heathfield rallied for two converted tries of their own, both started by indiscipline from the Norfolk. The Norfolk replied almost immediately following a penalty which went to the touch line, clean lineout ball from Slator and a strong drive made an easy score for Andy Bavstock. McKenna then did his own trademark spin, sidestep and go to charge over the line. This left only McMichael to finish the afternoon with a well taken try straight from the restart. Hoare caught the ball and passed to Stewart. Stewart delayed the pass to Robinson who stepped inside a defender and once behind the line gave a fine pass to Robotham, another forty metres later and Newark caught the ball from Robotham before giving the ball to McMichael who chose the McKenna style of scoring. He converted his own to tally 19 points for the day, and 100 for the season so far from only nine games. It was a fantastic game and a very positive atmosphere, the forwards made a return to the power game while the backs broke the line at will and the passing between both forwards and backs was sublime. A pleasure to be involved. After the reality check of last week it is so nice to see the team playing with confidence despite missing seven regular players through injury. Not many people thought we would win seven games for the season let alone seven from our first nine games. What a great season so far, congratulations to Barns Green who beat Worthing 3 and Paul McMichael for his 100 points already.