Mayfield left to rue lacklustre performance
MAYFIELD put in a somewhat lacklustre performance in Hull on Saturday as they faced west Hull.
The home side set their stall out from the kick off as winger Lee Registe was forced into touch in the first set as the Hull players piled into some fairly robust defence.
They took possession from the scrum and pummelled the Mayfield line for the first seven minutes and it took a like for like defensive response from Mayfield to hold them out. It took great work from forwards Seta Tala and Callum Marriott to force their way out of their own half and give the wiley Chris Hough to engineer a gap for Lee Registe to exploit and give his side the lead.
Hough just failed with the conversion.
Wests came straight back at Mayfield again the defence held firm.
But repeat penalties and unforced errors gave Wests long spells of possession, quick play the balls caught Mayfield cold and only a brilliant tackle over the line prevented the score but quick play again saw Wests ship the ball from right to left and the winger found space out wide to squeeze in and level the scores.
For the next twenty minutes Mayfield hardly got out of their own half and seemed to be being out enthused by the home side, and again repeat sets and mistakes allowed the Wests to take the lead as the other winger dived over to make the score 8-4.
With a couple of minutes of the first half remaining Mayfield found themselves in the Hull twenty and this had a galvanising effect on the team as they somehow managed to pile the pressure on.
They played some good rugby with Chris Hough dictating play and