The Lions ROAR

Dover Kicked off the game with Folkestone immediately making sure Dover knew that they meant business putting their all into the game.

Dover gave away an early penalty, quickly taken by Simon who passed to Danny for a straight low run over the line in the corner within the first 3 mins.

Folkestone continued playing with passion with Max, Joe, Zi, Will, Nat and all the forwards taking it to the opposition and setting up good ball for Simon to supply Sid, Persil and the rest of the backs

Folkestone pack punished Dover following a poor line out, rucked over with the ball coming to Nat then to Tom C who went over only to be held up.

The game soon settled into a rhythm with the Folkestone boys performing well, and it wasn’t long before more action lead to another score, again from a set piece. This time a Scrum, ball to Persil triggering a maul with the pack driving forwards. The ball came out to Summit with a smart offload to Sid who nimbly skipped the tackles to score for Folkestone. Sid then added the points from the conversion.

Folkestone continued apply pressure, keeping the home side pegged back within 20 metres of their try line. The pressure paid off, Sid tacked hard and forced a line out. Max picks up the ball to Summit, then to Persil broke the line before Max set the ruck and with Will, Joe, Nat driving low and hard over the ball, it came out through Sid, James H hands to Ben to score under the posts.

From the restart, Dover kicked high only to be superbly caught by Persil, who then went through Dover line and then through the rest of the backs and over the line again only to be held up once more.

Dover wins the ball and breaks our line with a good solo run but with Louis in chase putting pressure on and Dover ran it over the dead ball line; no try.

Folkestone again took advantage from a great 22 drop out when Dover knocked on. Louis getting the ball over the line for yet another try assisted by Persil.

Dover heads went down and their Captain lost his cool and was given a yellow card.

Dover kicked off again with a high and long ball, and again Folkestone returning back to the Dover line, this time with Zi placing the ball over the line for a try.

The score at Half time stood at 27-0

The second half saw the some changes in the Folkestone line up who continued to show strong defensive play preventing Dover from getting out of their 22 and forcing a penalty. Tom E passed to Danny who stepped inside and over the line for his second try.

Louis made a great run straight from the kick off, passing to Dion who went to ground and pick up by Tom C the team were down at Dover 5m line before going into touch.

Despite Dover line out not being straight and scoring another try the whistle blew a little early so we were brought back for a scrum down.

After further pressure, the ball came out to Danny who skipped through the Dover defence to put the ball down between the post for his hatrick and giving Persil an easy conversion.

The match had settled into a rhythm and it wasn’t long before more action lead to another 3 scores; all from set pieces.

The first from a ruck when Joe passed to Persil and over the line he goes, next from a Line out with Summit feeding the ball out to Tom C then back to Summit before finding its way back to Tom C for a try. The Last play of the match resulted I the ball being picked from a ruck by Danny who supplied Summit who went over in the corner for Stones 10th and final try.

Final score: Folkestone 54 Dover 0

Folkestone Try Scorers: Danny (3), Sid (1), Ben (1) Louis (1), Zi (1), Persil (1), Tom C (1) Summit (1)
Conversions Sid (1) Persil (1)
The entire squad is developing into a strong force. Each week the players pick up the momentum, tackling is distributed across the team and we hope we can take this level of performance with us again to Ash next week.

Man of the Match was Zi