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Fasten your seat belts

Post-match emotions ran high and low after both of our games last week. We had waited patiently for a home League fixture and got two in five days. Unfortunately injuries blunted our efforts once again and all we ended up with were two bonus points.

Freak bounces of the ball helped the Wizards to a 19-15 win and what has been described as a “makeshift” side battled against the ‘Quins – five props in the pack must have created history. Missed kicks at goal didn’t help but it was close and the bonus point eased the pain.

Then the ache returned with the news that Pontypool had beaten Swansea , their second win of the season and the All-White’s second defeat of the week in Gwent. Form flies out of the window at this time of the campaign and Pooler’s win was a warning. They made a late comeback last season and survived. The gap between the two occupants of the basement has closed.

Every point counts now and the supporters can’t help. It’s entirely on the shoulders of the players who realise what’s at stake. The summer of content when a strong squad was announced has turned into a winter of disappointment not helped by a run of injuries when the season began. All is by no means lost but we need some wins in the final lap.

It has never been wise to prophesy results at the end of a season, too many sure fire winners have fielded below strength teams when their chances of the title have gone and possibly clubs making certain of play-off places for entry to next season’s British/Irish Cup will concentrate on that. It’s all on us, if we win some games it doesn’t matter what others do.

Prop forwards can frighten or charm, they are a breed who still decide games, but five in a pack with one of them at No.8 is unusual. Bearing that in mind and allowing for three serious injuries early last week we did better than we initially thought against the ‘Quins whose 13-8 victory was their third in a week.

From now on it’s going to be a bumpy ride. We desperately want wins, equally we don’t want any more injuries as we face Newport , Neath, Pontypool and Glamorgan Wanderers at home and Cardiff , Cross Keys, Pontypridd and Swansea away.

It’s time we sprung a surprise against those above us.  

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