Beautiful weather for spectating rugby today at Riverview. The steak, bacon and egg roll with onion hit the spot.
The match played out in the reverse fashion to what I, and most others were expecting. Riverview on top early with Kings finishing stronger in the second half.
Riverview were immense in the first half, leading on the scoreboard and also had the upper hand in momentum. Their defence was superb.
Joe Dillon provided some very classy touches, his short chips in behind the Kings line worked very well. And he nailed a cracker 50/22 kick to put View right on the front foot.
The Riverview forwards did a really good job defending the Kings rolling maul. Snuffing it out more than once, and even gaining possession when the maul broke down.
There were certainly a lot of very concerned Kings supporters at the half time break.
Kings tightened up their game in the second half to wrestle back the momentum and score some points. Hadley Tonga was a real handful, beating his opposite man on most occasions and making a lot of metres. Boston did what he does best and made something out of nothing a couple of times. But it was the Kings forward pack that turned the game, with tough work in the second half.
As a Kings supporter it was great to see all the Kings boys in good voice, and then invade the pitch after the final whistle to congratulate their 1st XV.
The crowd spirit and demeanour was great, marred only by some Riverview old boys who insisted on screeching at the Kings kicker each time he was about the strike the ball on the kicking tee. Disappointing display of character from those fellas. They would have been taught better, back when they attended the school, as displayed by the current View students who conducted themselves very well.
