Dissapointment at the basc.
Saturday afternoon saw another defeat for burnham and they now find themselves on a terrible run of 4 defeats in a row. Not since the very early days of them being in this league 3 years ago have burnham lost 3 in a row. This was a game that burnham at the start of the season would of won comfortably but they are a team at the moment that is lacking confidence in their play and each other.
If there is one thing that burnham could rely on it was their never say die attitude and the willing to play right until the final whistle but even this is beginning to fall low as well.
Full credit to quins who played their part and showed that they were here to play hard physical rugby with a strong front row which at times dominated the once formidable burnham scrum along with more aggression at breakdowns and in tackles.
From this they managed to score a pushover try albeit burnham were down to 7 in the scrum because of yet another yellow card along with an intercept try and one at the start of the game where burnham failed to wake up from the whistle again and their fourth try was straight after the kick off in the second when burnham failed to learn their lesson in the first half.
Is it all doom and gloom? no with the way at times burnham attacked and kept going to the end the glimses of old are still there for everyone to see. With the first of burnhams tries coming through strong direct running and good phase play burnhams hooker Mike hocking smashed his way over, then with most probably the best try of the match burnham showed their counter attacking flair with a clearence kick from the quins fly half piper caught the ball on his half way line and ran the ball back at the defence with jordan paul running a dummy line piper spun the ball out to captain fantastic russ pike who again showed his attacking strength and quality by beating the first defender and offloading a reverse pass to rich ‘kiwi’ muskett who showed some pace to race into the corner whilst smashing off two defenders in the process. Then with the final passage of play burnham kept quins deep on their line and Finally with some direct running the quins defence was sucked in to give russ pike the final say and dive over by the posts and with piper adding the extras burnham came away with a losing bonus point but most surley could and should of been a winning bonus point.
So the line has been drawn in the sand the talk has stopped and honesty was the conversation in the changing room now with this in mind training must be met with enthusiasum and focus for the long trip to cirencester on saturday where a win is a must to get the burnham faithful what they want after putting them through dispair for the last 4 weeks.
Man of the match was russ pike.
Coach leaves at half 11 on saturday morning from the rugby club.