By Paul I
March 24 2024

On one of those very infrequent Championship Rugby days, five games played , Ampthill sitting this round out, all of the games seemed to go as predicted or expected. 

Nottingham eased to a 20-15 win at Cambridge, no BP win, just the three tries to the two for the hosts, a losing BP the takeaway for Cambridge. Two tries for David Wiiliams the main highlight here.  Att: 1434

At Goldington Road, Bedford had a nervy BP win against visitors Caldy, 27-14, the Merseysiders living up to their 'poor travellers' tag. Special mention has to go to winger, Dean Adamson, his two tries taking his club tally to 126 in only 175 club appearances.  He is now joint second greatest try scorer along with Bedford legends Budge Rogers and Barrie Williams on 125.  Att: 2526

Table-topping Ealing maintained their 10 point lead with, in the end, an eight try BP win over London Scottish , the visitors themselves scoring 5 tries in a 52-35 home success.  The hosts tries were evenly shared out between forwards and backs.  Att: 1051

Honours were even in the top four clash between Doncaster Knights and Cornish Pirates, a 27-all draw.  Leading 22-3 , ten minutes into the second period, the Pirates must have expected to take the spoils, but the hosts dug deep despite losing Maliq Holden for punching in the first half.  Pirates scored five tries to the hosts three, but discipline was obviously an issue for Pirates, conceding 21 penalties in the game. Three points for each side.  Att: 2012

Hartpury v Cov was the final game with Cov winning their first league game there for 10 years, 47-17. A 35-0 interval lead was the basis for this win. Cov's use of the windy conditions, five tries in the half, Pellegrini converting all five.  Centre Will Wand was the main beneficiary of the pack dominance scoring four league tries to equal Andy Smallwood's long standing record.  Cov even played the last 19 minutes with 14 players, all replacements used and a bad looking injury to replacement forward, Jack Bartlett. News is awaited on his injury.  Two late tries for the home side were mere consolations as they fell to a dominant Cov side. Att: 1202

Cov 

Tries Wand 4, Wilson, Hutler, Nayalo

Cons: Pellegrini 5, Mitchell 

Super Saturday - The Championship Round-Up (Week 16)

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Kimbo
25/03/2024 12:30

Average Attendances:

Coventry 3460 (=)
Bedford 2983 (down 65)
Doncaster 1921 (up 14)
C. Pirates 1554 (down 117*)
Cambridge 1331 (up 15)
Caldy 1193 (=)
Nottingham 1104 (=)
Ampthill 1069 (down 8**)
Ealing 1008 (up 6)
Hartpury 907 (up 49)
L. Scottish 588 (=)

*Round 6 attendance (1286) added to stats. Still no attendance available for Round 16.

**Amp vs Eal Easter catch-up game added



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Cov kid 42
25/03/2024 18:49

Bedford average still down on previous seasons

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PaulRossborough
31/03/2024 20:41

Seeing the attendances for Cov over ~ 5 seasons to date should make good reading.

All views expressed in this post, are my own

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Kimbo
31/03/2024 22:30

Ampthill attendance updated to reflect yesterday. Pity a few more didn't turn up...

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titchywinger
01/04/2024 00:05

Brilliant result for Ampthill. Well done.

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