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September 12th 2009 - Hull Ionians Hawks 3 Hull A 78
An inexperienced Hawks Team were no match for a very strong
Hull II Team at Brantingham Park on Saturday. Hull dominated throughout and were
able to score at will from driving mauls, breaks through the middle and
excellent handling along the backline.
To try and take some positives, things will improve. With 23 members of the
squad injured or unavailable there are a plethora of players to come back. Also
the first of a number of players from the University made their debuts on
Saturday with Chris Young showing up well and Eddie Beech unfortunate to get
injured early on. Young Andy Barrass at standoff shows great promise and scored
the Hawks only points with a penalty kick.
Captain for the day Tim Mennell played well in the centre and showed great
character in urging his young team to keep going. Lee Brown also showed up well
in the second row. Mike Owen playing his first game for four years at prop
showed courage to keep going the full 80 minutes even though heavily outweighed.
Again thanks have to go to Phil Willingham and the Academy helping out with 8
members of the squad to enable the Hawks to raise a side. Although not enjoyable
this was great experience for them. Hopefully more members of the team will be
available next Saturday as the Hawks have another home league fixture against
Ilkley.