Old Glynonians ran out convincing 58-0 winners at Egham Hollowegians on Saturday, writes Andy Carnell.
Egham tried to upset OGs’ rhythm from the start, but the aggression was soaked up and Liam Burns’ penalty after 10 minutes gave the visitors the lead.
That opened the floodgates and a flat cut-out pass from Burns allowed left-wing Rollinson to release Sam Price, who shrugged off two tackles to score the first try.
Then, having forced a knock-on in the opposition 22, Burns released outside centre Tom Burns to go under the posts.
There were further tries from both Tom and Liam Burns as Glyns led 34-0 at half-time.
Egham attacked at the start of the second half, but could not breach OGs’ solid defence.
Instead, the Burns combination worked again with twice more Liam releasing Tom at pace, taking his personal tally up to four for the game.
Flanker Nick Gregg’s low centre of gravity then allowed him to powerfully shrug off several tackles to score by the posts.
Loose-head prop Allan Parker, having just made a tremendous hit on the Egham full-back, then showed great support lines to score after receiving a well timed off-load from talismanic number eight Sam Drew. Fly-half Burns then got in on the action again to score close to the posts, converting his own try.
Liam Burns said: A tremendous effort by the forwards today allowed the backs the quick ball which the team has been striving for, the back row of worked really well as a unit; punching holes and turning ball over almost at will.
“This gave us a bit of an armchair ride in the backs, and the rugby we were able to produce as a function of this forward play was extremely enjoyable”
There are still aspects of decision making that need to improve, but we are confident in producing the same style of rugby next week against Bisons.”
OGs’ in only their third season are top of Surrey Four having lost just one league fixture this season.
They host league title challenger’s Guildfordian Bisons at Priest Hill on Saturday.
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