Wigton trip one of woe for Boro
LITTLEBOROUGH RUFC couldn’t build on their impressive performance last week as they were brought crashing back down after a dominant defeat at the hands of Wigton.
While there are a number of regular first team players still not available, it was still a disappointing performance from Boro away from home, who need to turn things around as quickly as possible.
The hosts went ahead after only five minutes of the game when they gained their first points with a well taken penalty. Back came Boro straight away, with their right winger Liam Lloyd catching a high kicked ball from the opposition before following it up with a good attacking run.
Wigton continued to display strong fast running from deep whilst Boro were constantly putting in hard tackles, but after only 11 minutes the hosts crossed the line for their first try, meaning they were now eight points ahead.
Littleborough’s scrumhalf Kip Kolbuck was quick to take a tap penalty and take Boro forward, but unfortunately Wigton regained the loose ball and once again went on the rampage and scored their second try, this time converting it.
Boro continued to fight and back they came again, this time making it into the opposition 22 metres area, before Chris Park made a brilliant kick for his winger David Kearns, who collected the ball and crossed the line for Boro’s first and as it later proved, only try of the day.
This did however encourage Boro to be more forceful and young Colt Mathew Hayden went on an attacking run with the ball in hand, which took them once more into their opponent’s 22 metres from which Jack Whittles converted a penalty to bring his side’s points tally up to eight, but unfortunately this would turn out to be the end of their scoring for the rest of the match.
Wigton were in total control throughout the rest of the half, scoring more points to ensure that they took a dominant 27-8 lead into the break.
The second half began with Littleborough showing more commitment as Michael Fletcher came onto the pitch with fresh legs, but Wigton continued to prove to be too much for Boro, and despite soaking up a lot of attacks, their defence was eventually compromised.
It meant that Wigton scored more tries during the second half, bringing their total for the match to seven, with four of those converted.
Despite the dominant defeat, credit should go to the full Boro team for sticking with the hard task set upon them, especially the Colts players who were playing.
Littleborough will now hope that they can get back to winning ways when they take on Bolton at Rakewood Road this weekend.