Longlevens RFC

Longlevens welcomed Cinderford 3rds for their first home league game of the season, knowing Cinderford was going to be tough opposition the chat before the game was about how we had to start well and with intensity we finished last weeks game against Painswick and full credit to the players they did exactly that putting early pressure on Cinderford back line, and a solid scrum resulted in a neat backs moved which enabled Jack Robbins to use his pace on the outside to finish in the corner 5-0 inside first 10 minutes.
Longlevens did not capatilise on this and a sloppy restart allowed Cinderford to go through phases in Longlevens half eventually allowing Cinderford winger to score and convert 7-5, Longlevens response was good with again good phases of play allowing Will Kemmet on the other wing to score in the corner 10-7.
Once again Longlevens restart was sloppy and put pressure on themselves  allowing Cinderford to put phases together and convert another score leaving the half time score 14-7.
The talk at half time was if we kept composure and collected a restart we were right in the game and a win was possible.
The Longlevens front row of Chris Powick, Fred McGee, and Henry Garner were putting huge pressure on the Cinderford scrum which resulted in penalty after penalty, but full credit to Cinderford there defence was holding firm, Longlevens were held up 3 times over the line before eventually good phases of play resulted in a good team try in the corner for H Garner Longlevens back in the lead 15-14.
Longlevens restart was received well by the hardworking Louis Bosely and fine clearance kick from Carlos Jenkins it was though Longlevens were in control with 10 minutes to go, but Cinderford 10 had other ideas one tackle slipped off and he scored under the post and converted ment Longlevens were  behind again 21-15.
With time running out and Cinderford trying to clear out their half Jake fox picked the ball up and scored a fine solo try beating 4 Cinderford players and going around the winger to score conversion missed Longlevens were behind 21-20 and looking like a agonising loss, with 3 mins to go Longlevens had a not straight line out but the Longlevens front row got the ball against the head in the scrum resulting in one last attacking chance after phases Cinderford were caught offside which left Carlos Jenkins to step up having not hit a kick all game from 25 meters out he stepped up and slotted it through the post to massive Longlevens celebrations.
Full credit has to go to the Longlevens front row who put massive pressure on Cinderford all game.