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Match report – Canterbury 5th v Maidstone Vets
CANTERBURY 5th 27pts MAIDSTONE VETS 12pts
Canterbury were at home in a friendly fixture to old rivals Maidstone Vets who always bring their own style of rugby to Merton lane. This was to be no different with these two well-matched sides holding a vast amount of experience between them slogged it out. It was the Zingari who managed to open the scoring followed by a sustained period of pressure that had Maidstone on the ropes late in the first half that saw Jacob Coffin make his debut try for the club, breaking from a rolling maul to dash 10yrds brushing aside the last defenders to score under the posts. Leaving himself a simple conversion. Maidstone hit back with a converted try but at this point the city side were in the ascendant managing to cross the line again, and were unlucky with the referee being unsighted denying Dai Bolt his moment of glory in his last game for the Zingari.
The second half saw the Zingari relying on the cushion they had built eased off, and Maidstone were back in the hunt scoring a try out wide, it was all about defence now as the city side reorganized and blunting the repeated surges on their line. New boy Denys Andrianjafy must have wondered what he had walked into but the line held. It was deep into the second half when the Zingari made the final breakout with another converted try to put the game to bed.
