All Golds v Oxford KPL1 2017 Final
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y Brendon Newton<br />
(against Hemel Stags last<br />
season) and Mo Agoro<br />
(Keighley this season) who<br />
have also crossed four<br />
times in a match.<br />
In the return game at the<br />
PoW just three weeks later,<br />
the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong> lost 28-26<br />
to make it one win apiece<br />
for the fourth consecutive<br />
season.<br />
Can either side break the<br />
sequence this year? We’ll<br />
have to watch this space!<br />
season (there were three<br />
points for a win).<br />
It was to be their 10th<br />
league game, at <strong>Oxford</strong>’s<br />
picturesque Iffley Road<br />
ground, that saw the <strong>All</strong><br />
<strong>Golds</strong> earn their first ever<br />
league win - a 20-18 triumph<br />
secured by a late Richard<br />
Jones try.<br />
The only players still at the<br />
club from those games are<br />
Phil Cowburn (who played<br />
and scored in both), the<br />
recently returned Richard<br />
Jones (who also played<br />
both games), James Walter<br />
(home game only) and<br />
Steve Parry (away game).<br />
The 2014 season once again<br />
saw the victories shared.<br />
<strong>Oxford</strong> won their home<br />
match 38-24 with the <strong>All</strong><br />
<strong>Golds</strong> getting even by 36-<br />
20 at the Prince of Wales<br />
when Matt Bradley kicked<br />
six goals and scored a try.<br />
After the defeat in <strong>Oxford</strong><br />
(on another not-so-Good<br />
Friday for the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong>)<br />
against a side inspired by<br />
a number of ex-<strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong><br />
players, head coach Brad<br />
Hepi called it a day, saying<br />
he felt he had taken the<br />
team as far as he could.<br />
Shortly afterwards,<br />
the club surprised the<br />
rugby league world by<br />
appointing Scotland coach<br />
Steve McCormack for the<br />
remainder of the season.<br />
2015 saw the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong><br />
slump to a disappointing<br />
defeat at <strong>Oxford</strong> by 20-<br />
12 despite leading by 12<br />
points to nil. Once again<br />
things were evened up as<br />
the Golden Fern enjoyed a<br />
comfortable win at home,<br />
38-24, when popular Aussie<br />
winger Ryan Pywell bagged<br />
a brace of tries.<br />
Joe Maclean is unlikely to<br />
forget the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong>’ 52-<br />
34 victory at <strong>Oxford</strong>’s new<br />
home in Abingdon in the<br />
2016 season. In a match<br />
where defence went out of<br />
the window, Joe claimed a<br />
club record four tries in the<br />
match, with housemate Phil<br />
Cowburn and prop forward<br />
James Walter both getting<br />
two. Appropriately, these<br />
three players are the only<br />
<strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong> left from the titlewinning<br />
2012 University<br />
side.<br />
Since then, Joe has been<br />
joined in the record books<br />
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