Holt RFC 1st XV
Matches
Sat 06 Apr 2019  ·  London 3 Eastern Counties
Woodbridge
7
17
Holt Rugby Football Club
Holt RFC 1st XV
Holt cap off a fine season with a win on the road away at Woodbridge.

Holt cap off a fine season with a win on the road away at Woodbridge.

Joanna Storey7 Apr 2019 - 15:22
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Playoff promotion fixture against East London next Saturday.

Match report by Ed Steed, Club Coach & we are really grateful to Simon Ballard, press officer at Woodbridge RFC for sharing all his photo's & video with us.

Holt capped off a fine season with a win on the road away at Woodbridge in their final match of the league season. The result sees them finishing 2nd in London NE3 and their 80% win ratio guarantees them a home draw in the playoff promotion fixture against East London next Saturday.
In slightly wet conditions Holt found the early going tough against a combative home side and were forced to defend deep in their own territory for large portions of the 1st half. Rare visitations to the oppositions half remained unrewarded until the last minute when Bruce van Poortvliet broke blind from a ruck to feed winger Tom Goose who beat two defenders in a superb 40m dash to the line. Despite the score being wide fly half Oliver Jaggard secured the points with an impressive conversion to put Holt ahead 0-7 at the halftime whistle.
The second half started well for the home side with consecutive penalties allowing a quick tap and go to be taken by Woodbridge in order to level the score at 7-7. Holts powerful scrum was being used as an effective weapon to gain front foot advantage but Holt couldn’t quite get their game going. It wasn’t until late on in the game that they finally took control with a well struck penalty from 30m out, Oliver Jaggard again proving accurate with the boot.
A late penalty saw Holt close the game out with top try scorer and captain Ashley Woods making no mistake from a 5m scrum to dot the ball down for Holt’s second try of the match securing a hard fought victory and ultimately a play-off game against Essex side East London in their bid for promotion to London 2. Final score Woodbridge 7 Holt 17

Match details

Match date

Sat 06 Apr 2019

Kickoff

15:00

Meet time

13:30

Instructions

Leave Holt RFC at 10am
Leave Greens, Aylsham at 10:30
Leave Norwich Ipswich Road Holiday Inn at 11:00
Leave Harford Bridge Tesco at 11:30
Arrive at Woodbridge at 13:30

Competition

London 3 Eastern Counties

League position

2
Holt
9
Woodbridge
Team overview
Further reading

Team Sponsors

Overall Club Sponsor  - Bakers & Larners of Holt
1st XV Short sponsor & player sponsor - Rocky Bottoms
training shirt sponsor - Trimingham Leisure
sponsor - Webbs Jewellers
sponsor - Brisley Bell
1st XV shirt sponsor & player sponsor - Ellie's Ice Creams