Leaders Pulborough RFC win again and Pirates follow suit

Wing Wizard. Will Scrase's fine try-scoring form has been a big part of Pulborough's success so far

Another weekend, another Pulborough league win.

This time it was Chichester III playing the victims, a 34-3 defeat giving the Sussex 1 leaders a perfect 12 wins from 12.

“It was a good game, more competitive then the final score suggests and more competitive then some games we’ve played,” Boro skipper Richard Nicholls said. “We had to work hard and 34-3 didn’t really reflect the game.”

Si Burfiend, playing at ten got the scoring started with the game’s first try. Further tries came from Frazer Oliphant-Hope, Will Akers, Hamish Goodman-Dorrington and Will Boulton off the bench.

The try of the game saw winger Will Scrase came in off the blindside and take the ball from a lineout, dart beyond a number of despairing tackles before offloading to Harry Perry to score under the posts.

Nicholls praised the performance of Stuart Standing in the second row, saying: “He’s stepped up well from playing Seconds rugby last year, he was everywhere on Saturday.”

Nicholls is expecting a tough test away at second placed Crawley in the Sussex Shield this Saturday, a side they then go to again straight after the Christmas break.