After a hard fought victory in front of a partisan crowd it was justified to celebrate the victory and build a bit more team spirit.

It is a toss up between Scott Winstanley and Carl Redford who is the best dancer and the Care Bear Squad (Browny, Hunty, Scott and DD) have been clamping down on any sort of mischief within the camp!!!

Chris “ONE SHOT” Walker enjoyed a day of big game hunting with Gavdog, Johndog and Jimmy “1000 VOLTS” Aspinall (Jimmy will give all information if asked!!!) … The rest of us enjoyed a days of adventure golf at Emerald City, Matty Bower proving to be a bit of a closet Tiger Woods.

Back to normality tomorrow with an early morning gym session followed by a riverboat cruise.  Training again on Tuesday and countdown to our next game on Wednesday.

Thanks for the kind comments, they are getting through and give to boys a genuine feeling that everyone back home is backing us!!!

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Great Britain community lions played their first match of their tour against a very physical South African A wining 42- 22.

With only two minutes on the clock a break from scrum half tony baker was backed up and finished off with a try for loose forward Gary Middlehurst.

Four minutes later Great Britain was on the score sheet again when a long pass from Baker found winger Joe Budd who touched down out wide.

On fifteen minutes a break from Paul Pendlebury was well backed up by winger Chris Walker who raced forty meters to score under the posts, Jordan Precious kicked the easy conversion attempt.

Eight minutes later South Africa was on the score sheet with a try from Dean Kramer when he dove over the try line from two metres out. Johan Fritz kicked the extra two points on offer.

A minute later Great Britain responded with a Gavin Corfield try after receiving a pass from full back Paul Pendlebury. Once again Jordan Precious kicked the conversion.

With only three minutes of the half remaining a lack of concentration allowed South Africa score arty through Christian Doziv to give a half time 20-10 advantage to Great Britain.

 Five minutes into the second half South Africa scored another try when poor defence enabled Lucas Pruis to score by the posts, which he kicked his own conversion.

Two minutes later Great Britain responded with a Matty Bower try, who rounded the South African full back to score behind the posts; Tony Baker kicked the conversion attempt.

Four minutes later South Africa was on the score sheet again when winger Wayne Burger somehow managed to scramble over the line after what seemed a dubious movement, Dean Kramer kicked the conversion to bring South Africa within four points of Great Britain.

On sixty minutes Dave Dunwell went on a thirty metre sprint and at just the right moment passed inside to Anthony Atherton who scored under the posts, which gave Tony Baker the easiest of conversions.

Five minutes later quick hands along the Great Britain line of attack completely caught out the South African defence which gave winger Joe Budd the opportunity to score in the corner

In the dying seconds Great Britain secured victory with their final try of the match. A kick through by winger Chris Walker was fumbled by the South African full back first to react was Anthony Atherton who only had to ground the ball. Anthony Atherton also kicked the conversion.

 

South Africa.

Henry Wiggins.

Morney Verwey.

Lee Langenhoven.

Christian Doziv.

Lucas Pruis.

Hanness Englebrett.

Gideon Fick.

Wouter jan wyk.

Marcelle Slabbert.

Wally Page.

Allen Kasselmen.

Robbie Oostvizen.

Gerry Glendall.

 

Great Britain.

Paul Pendlebury

Chris Walker.

Gavin Corfield

Joe Budd.

Wayne Leyland.

Jordan Precious.

Tony Baker.

Lee Brown.

Jimmy bardgett.

 Scott Winstanley.

Sean Wildbore.

Kevin Thompson.

Garry Middlehurst.

Anthony Atherton.

Ryan Smith.

Steve Atkinson.

David Dunwell.

Matt Bower.

Mark holmes.

 Paul Hunt.

Andy Lake.                                                                                                                

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1. Paul Pendlebury
2. Chris Walker
3. Gavin Corfield
5. Wayne Leyland
15. Joe Budd
6. Jordan Precious
7. Tony Baker
8. Lee Brown
9. Jimmy Bardgett
18. Dave Dunwell
11. Sean Wildbore (capt)
10. Scott Winstanley
13. Gary Middlehurst

ALL SQUAD TO PLAY - Game Kick Off 3:00pm Local Time (2:00pm BST)

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We arrived yesterday safe and sound after our 15 hour journey. We checked in around 11:00 local time and enjoyed a pasta based dinner. A light training session and some games, dominted by the Lancashire lads where followed by a traditional South African BBQ tea and pub games. Tony Baker dominated the darts with Gary Middlehurst the pool shark!!!

Today we have visited Vaal University for official tour photographs and have a further training session this afternoon. The evening will be spent taking in some local culture and viewing local teams playing.

Chris Walker is topping the fines table with 100 Rand so far, closely followed by Anthony Atherton, Jimmy Aspinall and Paul Hunt!!!

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Well it’s time to leave … Just had breakfast with Kev Thompson and put the final touches to packing our cases.  Spoke to Pengy who surprise, surprise was “shopping” … Jordan and the cod heads (Rocky, Browny and Atko) where half way down the M62 and all looking good for 11:00 meet!!!

Well thats me over and out … Next stop Munich Airport then Jo’Burg here we come!!!!

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