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CORPUS 7 - DOWNING 6

MVP: WIll Benfold

Having played them in week 8 last term, navigation to their hidden pitches was solid. On the way it became more and more apparent that the wind was going to be a serious problem. When we arrived, James Marlow decided to throw a couple forehands, in what i can only assume was an attempt to intimidate the corpus player(s) present with his confidence in windy conditions. The first hit a window. The second a roof. Kudos.

DCU had no women whereas Corpus had 2 meaning at times it was 5 against 7. But that didn’t matter because of Will and Kenny’s elaborate 5-man zone plans, and surprisingly, some of our best plays were in these 5-7 pressured situations. Mark was still injured from the previous week’s layout so we had 6/7 players and everyone was on for most of the match - good work! Things looked bad when both Marls and Luke had ankle injuries - there was limping left, right and centre but they managed to find a way to balance their time on the pitch and minimise overall pain. Happy days.

We really did play very well throughout and I think our chemistry, in particular, is greatly improving. Just like last time, Corpus’ play was 94% forehand hucks [5% hammers, 1% other] - some of which were horrendous. Somehow they still won though, so I guess it must have some merit. Our zone was good but with only one man deep vs 2-3 cutters, it was inevitable that a good few of the hucks would complete. One particular problem that i noticed we kept having was end-zone drops but we can work on it.

In conclusion good job. Win or loss we played well.

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That’s pretty much it.

Frove
Joey