Confident Trafford MV wins away at Orrell 12-38

Match Report: Wilf Dooley

Trafford MV travelled to Orrell, Wigan on a bright Autumn afternoon be be met with a late referee change and a pitch with a distinct gradient favouring the team playing downhill. Trafford were fortunate to have this first half advantage, yet despite this Trafford conceded first, losing the ball om half way for a home try in the corner 5-0.

Trafford responded with a line out drive , ball coming out to stand off Aaron Booth who jinked through the defence to score with Luke O’Shea converting 5-7. Trafford keep up the momentum which leads to Booth dancing his way through again with O’Shea adding the extra’s 5-14.

Dominating play from Trafford was creating opportunities across the park and ir was Luke O’Shea breaking the tackle and putting Dave Evans through, before adding the conversion 5-21. With half time approaching good tactical kicking put MV in a position to attack once again and it was flanker Tom Shepard splitting the defence to put Soliu Sonekan into space to race over in the corner to close the half at 5-26.

Against the slope in the second period Trafford had to endure early pressure as the home side battled to get back in the game, a feature of recent games has been defence and this paid off for MV with Ollie Jones, Joey Wilson and Sonekan stalling the attacks.

Trafford attacked uphill and Luke O’Shea spun a good long pass out to right wing Soliu Sonekan who raced away stepping the full back on his way to the line, O’Shea converting 5-33. Sonekan closes Trafford scoring with another try from a scrum ball whipped across the backline to touchdown in the corner 5-38.

Orrell collect a late consolation following a slip in the Trafford defence leaving a gap which proved the inroad to the Trafford try line, converted to put the final score in a good win for Trafford MV at 12 – 38.

Match Photo: Ian Rogers