Error count proves Mayfield’s undoing as

FOR the second time in as many games, Mayfield came away from Hull without the spoils, again falling by less than one score against a team they should probably have beaten – and would have done had their last minute ‘try’ not been disallowed in controversial circumstances.

Mayfield defended the first set well, but perhaps setting the tone for the afternoon, an error on first tackle by Kieran Harmer gifted the home side possession and they exposed poor numbering up on Mayfield’s right to score from simple passing.

The visitors again defended well for good field position and finished their next possession with grubber on the line, again a needless penalty relieved the pressure.

Mayfield had the best of the territory and a Wayne English offload found Lewis Sheridan in space on the Myton try line but he inexplicably missed out two attackers, when short passes or a dummy would have resulted in a score, and passed into touch.

Strong defence from Mayfield then forced another drop from the hosts, but Lewis Sheridan over-ran a shortside pass when the openside was wide open.

Myton took advantage of this good fortune and, after a simple exit set, scored from half way through their fleet-footed stand- off. And 12-0 was 14-0 when Mayfield conceded three penalties and Myton converted the last.

With 20 minutes gone Mayfield had nothing to show for their positional dominance until English took advantage of wide hands from the hard working Lewis Ainley and Paul Brearley, to score on the left.

Bouyed by this, Mayfield sparked into life, cut out the errors and charged to the line where Seta Tala scored off a neat inside ball from Declan Sheridan.

With two Chris Hough conversions, it was 14-12 at half time and Mayfield simply had to play to their obvious strengths and cut out the errors.

Aidy Gleeson clearly knew this as he returned the restart with an almost unstoppable drive to halfway. Tala followed his lead, and smashed into the Myton half. Gleeson took another drive to 15 out and Tala the next offloading to English who chipped over into the in goal and touched down for his second.

It was 14-16 as Hough missed the conversion.

Mayfield had a let off as Myton’s last pass was forward on a certain try wide on the right. From the resultant scrum, debutant James McDaid cut through the defence and out paced full back to score a fine Hough converted try and a 14-22 score lead with 25 minutes left.

But Mayfield went back to errors.

In successive plays they kicked straight into touch, Tala threw the ball away instead of playing it, Lewis Sheridan gave a penalty for mouthing and Aidy Gleeson chipped on the last and Myton’s number nine gathered on halfway, skipped through and off