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Youth Report for 191005 Ellon V Gordonstoun
Gareth D Kemp8 Oct 2019 - 18:52
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Great wins across the youth section for Ellon Youth. Make sure it Prime spot at the top of the Lancer Conference at half way!
A strong performance against Gordonstoun all round, both midweek and Saturday. The club fully deserves top spot in the conference at half way. Great when that happens, as the club is focused on development over winning.
- Gareth Kemp, Youth Head Coach
Youth report
Last weekend saw Ellon Rugby have the remainder of their fixtures against Gordonstoun Private school. Earlier fixtures had been played a few weeks ago as midweek fixtures due to Gordonstoun U14 and U15 having an away weekend last weekend. All fixtures were at the meadows on Saturday last weekend. Previously midweek, there was good wins for U14 and U15, so Ellon we’re determined to do well at the other age bands also.
U13 played on the First XV pitch for the first time, so had plenty of space and room to play. This showed with a strong 27-12 win (3 points for a try at this level), making them unbeaten at the half way point in the conference. U16 had a strong game also. With Gordonstoun at the bottom of the table, Ellon looked to give all players, including a number from U15, as much game time as they could and make a better game of it. In addition Fin Hagen has now moved up to U18 since he has turned 16.
It didn't take long with a try after 6 minutes, from a kick to line out and a rolling maul for hooker Ross Stewart to score. Ten minutes later Felix Middleton went over with a fantastic team effort, and a great finish by Felix. Ryan Dickie score the third try with a cross field kick from Josh Andrew, with Ryan catching and beating three defenders to score. Ryan Hanton was trying out at flanker and normally players prop. He got his break on an open ball on a line out and crashed through for a flankers try. The half was finished with Daniel Gillies making a break and running through to score. For the conversion, Josh Andrew kicked the first half and from the 5 try’s, he made 1 kick. Half time was 27-0.
Second half started similar with Ellon on the ball from the kick off, winning the ball and challenging. Winning a scrum on 5m after a held up try. New player Ross Brown was on at half time, and in his first game for Ellon, first at 8 and from the first scrum, picked and went hard, scoring his first try! Daniel Gillies took over the second half as conversion taker and scored the conversion from in front. There was a break of 22 minutes before Ellon scored again, but, in that time Ellon’s defence was very strong holding our three Gordonstoun attaches. They also lost both standoffs due to targeted knocks and had a winger in charge at 10. Ross Stewart then scored again from a maul, converted by Daniel, before Ryan Dickie scored the last try out wide. Final score was 46-0 to Ellon. At half way that places Ellon U16 a firm second behind Mackie, with only one loss to Mackie.
U18 played last for the Youth up against Gordonstoun with an ex Ellon player Calum Caven playing for Gordonstoun and a couple caley North lads. Ellon U18 had also put three players up to the First XV to play in the cup.
Ellon dominated this game from the start scoring on 6 minutes and then going on to score 6 first half tries and 4 conversions, for a half time score of 38-0. Second half, Ellon scored on 40 minutes before Gordonstoun got one back. Ellon scored 2 more tries and by 61 minutes the score became 57-5 and the difference became 50, so the game became a development game for the last 10 minutes.
U18 now are second in the conference at half way, with only 1 loss to Deeside away.
That completed a clean sweep over Gordonstoun at home.
Overall the Youth sit first in the Lancer conference at half way point! Games continue Saturday and Sunday 26/27 October against Granite City at home. As Ellon will look to push further in the conference.
Last weekend saw Ellon Rugby have the remainder of their fixtures against Gordonstoun Private school. Earlier fixtures had been played a few weeks ago as midweek fixtures due to Gordonstoun U14 and U15 having an away weekend last weekend. All fixtures were at the meadows on Saturday last weekend. Previously midweek, there was good wins for U14 and U15, so Ellon we’re determined to do well at the other age bands also.
U13 played on the First XV pitch for the first time, so had plenty of space and room to play. This showed with a strong 27-12 win (3 points for a try at this level), making them unbeaten at the half way point in the conference. U16 had a strong game also. With Gordonstoun at the bottom of the table, Ellon looked to give all players, including a number from U15, as much game time as they could and make a better game of it. In addition Fin Hagen has now moved up to U18 since he has turned 16.
It didn't take long with a try after 6 minutes, from a kick to line out and a rolling maul for hooker Ross Stewart to score. Ten minutes later Felix Middleton went over with a fantastic team effort, and a great finish by Felix. Ryan Dickie score the third try with a cross field kick from Josh Andrew, with Ryan catching and beating three defenders to score. Ryan Hanton was trying out at flanker and normally players prop. He got his break on an open ball on a line out and crashed through for a flankers try. The half was finished with Daniel Gillies making a break and running through to score. For the conversion, Josh Andrew kicked the first half and from the 5 try’s, he made 1 kick. Half time was 27-0.
Second half started similar with Ellon on the ball from the kick off, winning the ball and challenging. Winning a scrum on 5m after a held up try. New player Ross Brown was on at half time, and in his first game for Ellon, first at 8 and from the first scrum, picked and went hard, scoring his first try! Daniel Gillies took over the second half as conversion taker and scored the conversion from in front. There was a break of 22 minutes before Ellon scored again, but, in that time Ellon’s defence was very strong holding our three Gordonstoun attaches. They also lost both standoffs due to targeted knocks and had a winger in charge at 10. Ross Stewart then scored again from a maul, converted by Daniel, before Ryan Dickie scored the last try out wide. Final score was 46-0 to Ellon. At half way that places Ellon U16 a firm second behind Mackie, with only one loss to Mackie.
U18 played last for the Youth up against Gordonstoun with an ex Ellon player Calum Caven playing for Gordonstoun and a couple caley North lads. Ellon U18 had also put three players up to the First XV to play in the cup.
Ellon dominated this game from the start scoring on 6 minutes and then going on to score 6 first half tries and 4 conversions, for a half time score of 38-0. Second half, Ellon scored on 40 minutes before Gordonstoun got one back. Ellon scored 2 more tries and by 61 minutes the score became 57-5 and the difference became 50, so the game became a development game for the last 10 minutes.
U18 now are second in the conference at half way, with only 1 loss to Deeside away.
That completed a clean sweep over Gordonstoun at home.
Overall the Youth sit first in the Lancer conference at half way point! Games continue Saturday and Sunday 26/27 October against Granite City at home. As Ellon will look to push further in the conference.
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