SWINTON LIONS 6

LONDON BRONCOS 84

IAN RIGG            Heywood Road                Sunday

London Broncos ran in fifteen tries to claim a huge victory over the luckless Lions. Scrum half Jimmy Meadows scored twenty-eight of the points with a dozen conversions and a try. The Lions took the lead in the game when great play down the left side finished with Tom Ratchford finishing off the move on the left and Reece Briers converted. Broncos started to come stronger but the Lions defence was holding out well until Meadows found a gap to score by the posts on thirteen minutes and add the conversion. Liam Tindall then finished off a move in the corner midway through the half but no conversion. Aaron Willis was held up for the Lions on twenty-seven minutes, and this seemed to spark the Broncos as the cut loose with three tries in six minutes with Morea Morea grabbing a brace and Finly Glare darting from halfback to score under the posts and Meadows added the conversion to all three. With less than a minute to go to the break Broncos got a penalty and from this some rapid passing saw Luke Smith score on the right but Meadows was unable to convert from the touchline as the hooter followed just afterwards.

Broncos knocked on at the restart, but the Lions then lost the ball in the next tackle to put them on the attack and Tindall added his second after brushing through some tackles and Meadows converted off the touchline. Morea Morea added his third within four minutes of the restart again converted by Meadows. Lions had another good chance from the restart but again lost the ball and Neil Tchamambe finished off a nice move in the corner converted by Meadows to bring up the fifty points. Again, good line pressure by the Lions with Cameron Bate being grounded just short of the line, From the next set Broncos went downfield and Brandon Webster-Mansfield went in from close range, but this conversion was missed. He scored a second six minutes later when he broke free to score by the posts with Meadows converting. Broncos then cut lose in the final fifteen minutes with More Morea scoring his fourth and Epel Kapinias, Marcus Stock and Glare scoring the others and Meadows was on the mark with all his conversions to complete the victory. Just before the last play of the match Epel Kapinias and George Roby were sent to the sinbin for fighting.

MATCHFACTS

LIONS

1 Louie Roberts

24 Ethan Fitzgerald

20 Adam Jones

29 Hamza Butt

2 Connor Parkinson

21 Tom Ratchford

6 Reece Briers

18 Bobby Shingler

9 George Roby

22 Jordan Brown

12 Aaron Willis

31 Finlay Irwin

11 Gav Rodden

Subs (all used)

4 Aaron Lynch

17 Trent Kelly-Duffy

26 Charlie McCurrie

32 Cameron Bate

Tries: Ratchford (1)

Goals: Briers 1/1

Sinbin: Roby (79) fighting

BRONCOS

1 Morea Morea

26 Neil Tchamambe

2 Elliot Wallis

20 Brandon Webster-Mansfield

5 Liam Tindall

23 Gairo  Voro

7 James Meadows

10 Emely Bitungane

9 Sam Davies

16 Epel Kapinias

12 Jack Croft

11 Luke Smith

17 Marcus Stock

Subs (all used)

14 Finley Glare

6 Connor O’Beirne

19 Benjamin Hursey-Hord

15 Sadiq Adebiyi

Tries: Meadows (13), Tindall (22,42), Morea (29,35,44,65), Glare (32,79), Smith (39), Tchamambe (48), Webster-Mansfield (57,63), Kapinias (68), Stock (76)

Goals: Meadows 12/14

Sinbin: Kapinias (79) Fighting

Penalty count: 7-10

Half-time: 6-32

Referee: Scott Mikalauskas

Attendance: 662

SCORING SEQUENCE: 6-0,6-6,6-10,6-16,6-22,6-28,6-32,6-38,6-44,6-50,6-54,6-60,6-66,6-72,6-78,6-84.