Watch - HKRU Premiership's Friday Night Lights...and fights
A fitful Friday night match turned into a dramatic affair tonight at Kings Park as Kowloon claimed their first win of the Old Mutual International Premiership season by beating Societe Generale Valley 20-18 in extra time.
Valley took the lead 7-3 in the 9th minute, after a charge down gifted centre Taumafai Komiti with an easy try. However, the hosts rallied nicely at the end of the half, coming away with their first try of the game through winger Chris Kinlock. This closed the deficit to 15-10 at the break.
Kowloon’s rally looked to be short-lived after they conceded a penalty on the opening kick-off, with Matt Rosslee slotting his second goal of the night to extend the visitors lead to 18-10 after 41 minutes.
Lewis Warner then scored a solo try as he came blazing into the line to finish with a 40-metre sprint, outpacing Komiti to cross over in the 47th minute. Sneddon’s conversion brought Kowloon to within a point at 18-17.
What was shaping up to be a wide open match was nearly derailed after Rosslee was surprisingly issued a red card, following a seemingly inconsequential fracas after the re-start.
However, in the 84th minute, Kowloon forced a massive turnover. A scrambling Valley defence were penalised at the ruck, setting up a kcikable opportunity for Kowloon 47 metres out.
Reserve back Michael Hanning stepped up to be the hero and he proved up to the task, coolly slotting the 47-metre penalty to give Kowloon a 20-18 win.
Meanwhile, Natixis HKFC continued their hot start in the Old Mutual International Premiership, taking a tough away win over Bloomberg HK Scottish 37-30. The bonus point win sees HKFC remain the only undefeated side in the Premiership and lifts them to the top of the table on nine points. This puts them ahead of Borrelli Walsh USRC Tigers, who emerged on the right end of another close match this afternoon, beating HKCC 29-16.
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Geez plenty of time to come right before test season starts. Dont panic mr Mannering!!!!!
1 Go to commentsGreat read Nick. The Reds really have been great to watch this year, and the improvement of not only the players you mention, but the squad in general has been obvious. The Reds 10/12 play making axis is a nice counterpoint to the 10/15 partnership at the Brumbies and Rebels. If Schmidt was to pick say, Lolesio, Paisami and Wright / Kellaway, would this be too many play makers? I notice in a lot of those clips Tim Ryan playing across the field in support of Vunivalu. Is this a feature of Kiss’s structure?
2 Go to commentsSo sad, god rest him. Too young to be gone. RIP
2 Go to commentsRIP big man 🙏
2 Go to commentsThe GB coach. “Just because we don’t get together as much as other teams we don’t use that as an excuse for performances when we don’t hit the mark”. Why mention it at all then?
1 Go to commentsNo mention of the yellow card for Harlequins which really cost them.
3 Go to commentsThought you’d left us Nick. Good to have you back writing for us. So hunter ikitau works? I reckon wright kellaway as two of the back 3. Tim Ryan and Toole looking good for strike winger but I still want the power of korobeiti and figure our forwards still need him to help them out. Million dollar question is who plays 10? I’m thinking Noah for his kicking and combo with wright. Reckon the pair adds up to an attack and kellaway will help. Can you comment on Zac Lucas in Japan? How is he going?
2 Go to commentsMack Hansen, Ethan Roots, Taine Plumbtree, Louis Lynagh, Emmanuel Meafou? Which country do you want to pick your Barbarians from?
3 Go to commentsInstead of apologising, try to act like an adult, fcknut.
3 Go to commentsLooks like the Force twisted his leg…ahem arm
5 Go to commentsScotland should change their name to the Barbarians
3 Go to commentsThe game was already over leave the bloke alone ….from a Welsh fan 😀👍
3 Go to commentsShamefully the Toulouse players acted like footballers, falling down feigning injury at the slightest knock. About time refs penalised this play acting.
8 Go to commentsAnother non Scot for the anti Scot Townsend. Soon there will be no Scottish born and bred players in the National team.
3 Go to commentsGreat comeback to the playing field by Richie Mo’unga after the loss of his father. A great performance by Richie . I know him well and he is a great guy. On and off the field one of the greatest for the Crusaders. Scott Robertson would have loved him in his All Black’s side. A very missed player and person.
3 Go to commentsYeah nah he comes across as a funny bloke, but that stopped abruptly after the Nutcracker Prince debacle✋
3 Go to commentsAt this point I can’t watch him without thinking he’s a dirty slimebag. He should have been banned for the same amount of time that Quinn was out. It took Tupaea near on a fricking year to get fit enough to play again and his leg will never be the same. The other crap thing is that he was at ABs level and now he has to claw his way back there when he could have had several games under his belt.
5 Go to commentsThe Black Ferns 7’s have been without Captain Sarah Hirini now since Dec 23 in Dubai where she suffered a bad ACL injury - hopefully she is on the road to recovery for Madrid and Paris. Now also have Tyler King and Shiray kaka on the Injured List but the Team still found a way to win in Singapore and claim the overall Title.
1 Go to commentsUtter grub, hope he gets his leg broken. Shocking he is still playing after intentionally breaking quinn tupaeas knee
5 Go to commentsGreat to see NZ 7s teams finally coming into form and playing at the level that is expected of them.
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