Suffolk Come from Behind to take the Win

           

🏆Eastern Counties Tri-Counties Under 17's

📆 18^th May 2025

Norfolk 🆚Suffolk

Wymondham RFC

From home it’s a little over 49 miles and fairly straightforward, apart from the police van on the A11 trying to catch the speeders out, it failed to catch me out as Waze had flagged it earlier, for a change, when I’ve been here before, the sun was shining, however there was a strong cross field wind that may cause some issues during the game, the game was to officiated by officers from CUDRRS

The previous week, Cambridgeshire secured a dramatic last-minute victory against Suffolk at Woodbridge. Suffolk began the match with the kickoff and delivered a promising opening five minutes, pushing the ball deep into Norfolk's half. However, a penalty allowed Suffolk to clear their lines. Norfolk then capitalized on the first opportunity of the game—a charged-down clearance kick was recovered by Norfolk and grounded the posts for the opening try. With the successful conversion, the home county took a 7-0 lead.

From the restart, Suffolk went on the attack, picking up a penalty. From the resulting penalty, Suffolk put the ball in to touch, however, Norfolk stole the ball and went back on the attack

The game so far was quite even, with both sides trying to play their own style of rugby, 20 minutes on the clock, and Suffolk got their first try of the game, but the wind made the conversion difficult and fell short of the posts as Norfolk led, 7-5

Norfolk extended their lead, with the second entry, despite Suffolk holding them up, but Norfolk crossed, the line to score, conversion missed as the score stood at 12-5, the third try soon came after the restart, as Norfolk powered by the Suffolk line to score, the conversion cannoned off the post and to safety

17-5

Suffolk came out for the remining part of the half a different looking side chasing down Norfolk and it wasn't long before they had a try, along with the conversion, as the scoreboard read 17-12 to Norfolk, Suffolk looked to putting Norfolk under more pressure, on their own try line as they kicked to gain some yards, a stumble on the try line saw Suffolk held up, not once but twice in quick time, Suffolk had a scrum meters away from the try line, which they managed to get across the try line, for a converted try, added

17-19

Like the game the previous week against Cambridgeshire, the Suffolk team came out for the second fired up and a different side, after a spell of Suffolk being on top, Norfolk crossed the try line again to retake the lead,

24-19, from the restart, Suffolk push on to the Norfolk try line , to score a try, conversion missed to tie the scores up at 24-24

A error for the restart saw Suffolk knock on at the 5m line, Norfolk looked to put the ball out wide, and push Suffolk, however Suffolk pushed Norfolk back, forcing them to go the other way, Norfolk were awarded a penalty with just 5 minutes left, opting to kick for 3 points, after some arguments as the score stood at 27-24

From the restart, Suffolk kicked long forcing Norfolk to bring the ball out, but Norfolk made the error and Suffolk won a a scrum, Suffolk stole the ball from the base of the scrum, where they dived over the line for a try, leaving a difficult chance for a conversion from the touch line, It proved to much as it fell short, but as soon as the ball went dead the official blew the final whistle to confirm the final score was a Suffolk 29-27 win, 

The final game cames next weekend as Norfolk travel to Shelford to face Cambridgeshire, a win for home county will see them lift the silverware,