Tigers' losing streak extends with home loss.

🏆 Counties 1 Eastern Counties

📆 18^th October 2025

🆚 Southwold

🕣 3pm KO

📍Pocock & Shaw Park

After last week's loss to Shelford, the Tigers suffered further injuries, resulting in lineup changes for their home match against Southwold. Despite these setbacks, the Tigers began the game more energetically and quickly took an early lead. from a Southwold lineout, Ely secured possession of the ball and crossed the try line within the opening five minutes, with Alfie Allen successfully completing the try. Jake Alsop then added the conversion.

With ten minutes on the clock, an error at the back allowed Southwold to cross the try line and secure a converted try. Shortly after, a line out enabled Ely to respond, with Scott Macfarlane being driven over for a try, which Alsop successfully converted. Following the restart, Southwold managed another converted try, bringing the scores level. Ely was then awarded a penalty try as John Surby approached the try line; the referee intervened just before grounding, awarding the penalty and reducing Southwold to fourteen players.

Southwold level the score up once more, breaking from deep inside their own half to score under the posts, they then had the chance to take the lead, after being awarded a penalty, and opting to kick for the points, they missed the chance, from the restart, the kick from Ely was returned to Southwold were they chased down a kick off the Ely backline to Southwold to score, but they failed to add the conversion to lead by 5 points, Ely had the chance to close the gap after they were awarded a penalty, with Alsop opting to kick for the 3 points, which he added, but back came Southwold once more with a converted try this was followed up by anther penalty which they opted to kick to increase their lead, this time converting the 3 points, with full time closing in, Southwold added another converted try, under the points, their was sill time for Ely to score a try as Allen went over in the corner, which Matt McCarthy converting as the final score finished in a 39-31 defeat for Tigers.

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Lunch Time defeat for Tigers

 

🐯 Game Day #167
🏆 Counties 1 Eastern Counties
📆 11^th October 2025
🆚 Shelford 2
🕣 12:30pm KO
📍 The Davey Field, Shelford 

A change in the Kick Off time saw Ely Tigers travel to Shelford Nomads for a 12:30 kick off, changes were made to the squad as the treatment list gets bigger, as Tiger lost Mitchel Kennett inside the opening minutes, with 5 minutes on the clock the home side scored the first points of the game, with a converted try, 35 minutes on the clock Shelford score again with another converted try to double their lead, directly from the restart Shelford cross the try line once more, unchallenged under the posts, to extended their lead to 21-0

With half time approaching Ely get on the score board, Matt McCarthy feeding the ball for Luke Turner to score, with Jake Alsop converting, there was still to score once more with Alfie Allen going over to score, with Alsop was more converting, leaving the score  21-14, during the first half injury  time, Shelford score again, but this time the conversion was  missed to leave the score 26-14 at the break, but Tigers injury list was added to a Carlos Diaz Meco, joined team mate Kennett across at Addenbrooks

Start of the second half, it doesn’t take long for Shelford to get on the score board once more,  a cross field kick from Shelford, was gathered up to score in the corner a converted, on the hour Shelford once more add to the score, as they cross the try line once more with another converted try, score again, by moving to ball across the park to find space in the Ely backline, to score a converted try, Shelford score from a simple line out move, to score under the posts, for their last converted try of the afternoon to move the score to 47-14 series of penalties pinned Shelford back on their own try line,  

Ely’s third try finally came as Lee Thompson dived over the line, with the game coming to an end Tigers went looking for their bonus point try, but the game came to an end with Shelford running out 47-21 winners