By John Wilkinson, Coventry Telegraph.
November 24 2014

As a statement of intent and a signal to the rest of National League One, this was the loudest of Coventry’s eight-match winning run by a country mile.

Cov again had their four-try bonus point taken care of by half-time, but this time there was no drop in performance level as they continued to turn the screw and went on to add five more tries to put down an emphatic marker for this weekend’s visit of leaders Ealing Trailfinders.

The better side over the opening half, Cov were still vulnerable with only a 17-14 lead to show approaching half-time after handing their hosts – solid up front and always dangerous in possession – two soft tries.

But four minutes either side of the break proved decisive as Tynedale received two yellow cards, Cov scored two tries and, in between, started the second period by catching the kick-off and then rolling back the opposition forwards a full 30 metres to halfway.

From such a platform there was only one way to go, and Cov maintained their intensity to the final whistle.

Prop Andy Brown took the plaudits for his three tries, but was quick to point out that they were through the efforts of a pack which saw a solid return from Adam Parkins, back for his second spell at the club, and a promising debut for his fellow Saints Academy member, England under-18 back row Lewis Ludlam, and it was a result achieved by an all-round team effort in which every player did his job.

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PaulRossborough
24/11/2014 20:41

Is Locke injured again?very short replacement appeatance.
Shame Rundle didn't score against his former club. Good performance all round by the sound of it.

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Bono546
24/11/2014 20:49

Locke's injury looked like concussion again and Rundle never had a hope of scoring Tynedale always had 2 or 3 players covering his every move, not often all you can hear from the opposition is The name of one of your players but it happened on Saturday. He was a marked man in more than one way (fairly though)

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eggshape
24/11/2014 21:07

Yes i thought that rundle was marked out the game but the left side seen plenty of the action cant pick one player best team performance of the season well done to the whole squad maybe 1 mention morgan lineouts brilliant

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OldNick
24/11/2014 21:21

Line outs were mainly thrown to two - safe but sure.

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PaulRossborough
24/11/2014 21:41

Perhaps Tynedale's plan to mark Rundle out of the game opened up the rest of the field to enable the others to score? He will be out for a while then if concussion is confirmed. How did Parkins get on? Has he improved since he was last with us?

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OldNick
24/11/2014 21:46

He's a couple of stone lighter than he has been, and looked pretty mobile. Looked good.

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eggshape
24/11/2014 21:56

I.ll take safe lineouts everyday possesion is king i have seen too many ambitious lineouts with ball lost and rolling mauls into tries it just nice to see safe handling at height

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Peter Redhead
25/11/2014 15:41

The addition of Parky in the front row made it very solid.

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