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ALL GOLDS<br />
SNEAK HOME<br />
IRONMEN 30-36 ALL GOLDS<br />
FRIDAY 14 TH APRIL<br />
MERTHYR RFC<br />
Again the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong> wasted an excellent start to<br />
be clinging on at the end of an absorbing contest<br />
between two derby rivals. Tries from Mo Agoro<br />
and Harrison Elliott had the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong> 10-0 up in<br />
just five minutes but the Ironmen got back into<br />
the game and the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong> were thankful to<br />
take an 18-12 advantage into the dressing rooms<br />
following a 70-metre interception try from Agoro<br />
and a penalty each.<br />
The second half was forty minutes of mayhem.<br />
Both sides scored three tries and both had the<br />
advantage of an extra man so that by the time<br />
the final ten minutes arrived, there was barely a<br />
score between the sides.<br />
The fun began with Chris Vitalini having a ten<br />
minute rest and during that time the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong><br />
added a penalty and a converted try from Phil<br />
Cowburn to seemingly take the game by the<br />
scruff of the neck leading 26-12.<br />
It wasn’t the case and the Ironmen piled on the<br />
pressure and added a try and two goals, with<br />
only a Brad Kislingbury try keeping the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong><br />
32-20 ahead. The Ironmen scored again and with<br />
Chris Barlow in the sin-bin, Izaak Duffy crashed<br />
over to make the score 32-30. Amazingly,<br />
Courtney Davies hit the outside of the post with<br />
the conversion that would have levelled the score.<br />
A mistake at the restart handed the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong> an<br />
opportunity and they took it, Agoro touching<br />
down for his tenth try in the league this season<br />
to make the score 36-30 with ten excruciating<br />
minutes still to play.<br />
It was tense, with the visitors’ line taking a<br />
pounding as the Ironmen pressed right up to the<br />
final hooter and beyond.<br />
But the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong> rode out the storm – just – to<br />
record a much needed win.<br />
Unfortunately, a rib injury to the luckless Graham<br />
O’Keeffe took something of the shine from the<br />
side’s ninth straight win over the men from South<br />
Wales.<br />
ALL GOLDS: Nield; Agoro (3t), Cowburn (t),<br />
Kislingbury (t), Barlow; Ward, Hyde (6g); Elliott<br />
(t), Parry, Purslow; McClean, Worrall; Brickhill; I<br />
NTERCHANGE: Lobwein, O’Keeffe, Walter,<br />
Andrade.<br />
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