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# Tries galore as Lichfield RUFC suffer opening day defeat against Old Halesonians
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/tries-galore-as-lichfield-rufc-suffer-opening-day-defeat-against-old-halesonians/
- Published: 2019-09-10T05:52:07.000Z
- Updated: 2019-09-24T10:29:11.000Z
- Description: Lichfield RUFC opened their season with a home defeat against Old Halesonians in a match rife with tries.
- Author: Darryl Godden
- Tags: Sport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:18

Lichfield RUFC opened their season with a home defeat against Old Halesonians in a match rife with tries.

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The hosts struggled to maintain composure in the first half, allowing Old Hales to run in a brace of scores with no reply.

At half-time the match was looking sewn up, until super-sub Greg Massey ran in three tries in quick succession shortly after the break, with additional scores coming from Brad Rowlands, Matt Chandler, Adam Spinner, Paul Maxwell-Keys & Harvey Wootton.

It looked like Lichfield might pull off an amazing turnaround, but an intercepted pass in the last few seconds put pay to those thoughts with the game ending 52-60.

Lichfield’s director of rugby Dan Hemingway said: “That didn’t go to plan, but we are Lichfield, so inevitably it was entertaining!

“But we are extremely disappointed with our performance for the first 50 minutes, defensively we made far too many errors and handed the game to Hales either side of the half time break.

“Our subs made a great impact and we really let loose second half, we showed what we can be about and the character in the group to come back the way we did.

“It was a shame to see the interception last play that took a point away from us.

“Going into next week we need to take this reality check and be better defensively.

“We can’t accept scoring 50 points and not winning a game of rugby.

“We need to rid ourselves of the entertaining losers tag and become a side that’s knows how to win rugby games.”

The men’s 1st XV play their next match away at Stoke-on-Trent on 14th September, while the Ladies Red team play West Park Leeds Ladies at Cooke Fields on 29th September.