WORDS AND PICTURES BY TIM BARTLETT
Bedford Tigers crashed to a 38-16 home defeat to the Kings Lynn Black Knights on Saturday in the East Rugby League Premier Division, where they struggled to reproduce the kind of form that saw them narrowly defeated by current league champions, North Herts, seven days previous.
“We were missing three or four players today,†said club captain Rob Ashton. “But it’s still no excuse, at the end of the day it’s thirteen against thirteen and we just weren’t good enough.â€
Elliot Line scored Tigers’ only first half try, going over in the corner, giving Ashton a tough kick to add the conversion. But Kings Lynn went in 28-4 ahead at the interval, having scored six tries of their own and looking good value for their points advantage.
“Their first half was outstanding,†said Ashton. “They ran us ragged, we didn’t learn from last week’s penalty count, we just didn’t play wise rugby. In the second half it was better, people stepped up as individuals, they ran hard but we still made silly errors, at times, it was small margins.â€
The Tigers did fair much better after half time, and early tries from Lee Walker and Matt Wilson reduced the Kings Lynn advantage to 28-14, and asked some serious questions of their visitors following some sustained periods of Tiger pressure.
However, twenty minutes into the second half Black Knights scored their seventh try of the afternoon, followed by another eight minutes later that effectively finished the game as a contest with just over ten minutes to play.
“We’ve got them again next week [in the cup], they’re not going to be a pushover, we know what they’re going to bring to us, and we know what we’ve got to take to them,†said Ashton.
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Rugby League: Bedford Tigers slip to Kings Lynn defeat
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