Oldham tick against Toc

RUGBY UNION:

Didsbury Toc H 1st XV 26, Oldham RUFC 1st XV 36
THE final score doesn’t reflect the dominance of an in-form Oldham side who ran in six tries before easing up in the last quarter of this North Lancashire Division One fixture.

Phil Conroy opened Oldham’s account when he joined a flowing move and ran the ball home from the 22.

Callum Meagram picked an equally-good line to open up the Didsbury defence and his successful conversion made it 12-0.

Didsbury hit back and only a superb tackle from Jordan Green prevented a try.

But Oldham were soon back on the attack and Meagram comfortably stepped through an overworked home defence to score by the posts. Once again, he added the extras.

A pushover try from Disbury reduced their arrears, sparking Oldham into action. Conroy got on the end of a superb move, but the try was ruled out for offside.

After the break, Oldham quickly went about putting the game to bed and two tries from Joe Hesse and one from young winger Max Horsfall did just that. One of the tries was converted.

That made it 36-7 on the hour, but to their credit Didsbury fought back gallantly, scoring three tries to leave a final scoreline which did not do justice to Oldham’s superiority and free-flowing rugby..

Against an older and well-drilled pack, Oldham achieved parity in the scrum and line-out and managed to neutralise Didsbury’s impressive driving maul.

The only downside, once again,was the number of needless penalties conceded.