Home News Contact Us Committee Our Location Sponsors & Affiliates Links The Italian Job The Club North Petherton 20 Minehead Barbarians 3. This was the first meeting of these old rivals for  5 years and Petherton in their promotion season proved to have the edge in key positions where their support players always looked more hungry and determined to make ground and exploit gaps then their visitors . The match was spared the worst of the rain and wind that disrupted a lot of other games but Minehead failed to take advantage of the wind and slope in the first half. They started brightly enough. Centre Jack White made a 40 metre break , deep into the Petherton 22  and from the breakdown forced Petherton to concede a penalty in front of the posts, duly kicked by Dom Westcott.  On the half hour Petherton took the lead with an  unconverted pushover try . Right on half time Minehead conceded a penalty 5 metres from the right hand touch , Petherton went for the catch and drive, the Minehead defence was  exemplary as play went through more than a dozen phases switching right across field to the opposite touch line and back to where the original offence had occurred. Minehead were penalised again and this time Petherton opted for the scrum but failed to get over the line , to leave them just 5-3 up at half time. A Petherton penalty soon after the re-start was the only score until the last quarter Minehead were trying to run the ball out of defence  where their best forays upfield were spearheaded by Scott Langdon  who displayed the energy and enthusiasm in support  that was needed keep his side in a game in which it was Petherton’s superiority in support that eventually gave them control  Their full back made a clean break through the midfield to release their strong running centre who put the winger over in the corner  A great conversion made it 15- 3 .  The final score resulted from a similar well supported move , stopped initially by a great Tom Bishop tackle  but taken over from the ruck  . The kick  from the corner hit the post  . Final score 20-3.                  Jason Coates made a welcome return, coming on early to replace the injured Luke Browne and Rob Webber showed his versatility when switched to the wing in a last quarter reshuffle, where he made some determined runs  and created space for himself from deep positions. Team, T Bishop,D Westcott,J White,L Browne,  S Ford, M Cook, D Swann, J Harris R Parsons,D Webber R Cox., R.Webber,S Langdon,T White (capt)  Rep R Henson ,R Lewis, J Coates. HOME    1XV    2XV   STAGS   COLTS   PAST P & S   MINIS   NEWS   CONTACT   COMMITTEE    LOCATION   SPONSORS   LINKS    GALLERY   DOWNLOADS   HISTORY               Discover Websites     1st XV      2nd XV      STAGS       COLTS BACK TO MATCH REPORTS Minis and Juniors Sponsor