25/10/2026
🧡🖤 1st XV MEN'S MATCH REPORT
Stone 1st XV - 12
Uttoxeter 1st XV - 45
Town took the short trip down the road to face big rivals Stone this weekend. With the numbers of injured and unavailable players more numerous compared to actually available, it was a real squad team that took the field.
The weather was absolutely rotten, but our performance was far from it. Our Scottish flyer, Lewis Bain, crashed over the try line in the opening 5 minutes to settle any nerves we had, shortly followed by skipper Cal Shaw with a pick and go from 5m out.
Stone came back at us hard with strong runners getting them over the line for their first of the game.
Tyler was next over the line for the boys with an interception try from a Stone line out, followed by Bainy going over for his second of the match giving us a strong lead going into the break. Stone scored with the last play of the half after Sam Woolley was harshly sent to the bin.
3 tries followed in the second half from MotM Alex Brown crashing over off a short inside ball from Shez, Mr Ironman himself, Mark Springall, raving into the corner, and our Uttoxeter's American Gilly, who’s now back with us, who benefited from a barnstorming run from Charlie Collier.
A game played with pure patience and accuracy from the lads in Orange and Black, blowing Stone off the park, purely playing rugby, keeping cool heads and not lowering ourselves to Stone's arm wrestle game plan that has been our downfall in recent seasons.
🟠Skippers Highlight🟠 with Shez coming off the pitch due to injury, next in line to kick off the tee was Will Bowyer. Some could blame the weather, others might blame his hair, but whatever that conversion was, needs to be forgotten. It went about 3mm high, and the opposite way to the posts, even Stone's supporters were laughing at him. Never mind Will.
🟠 MotM 🟠
Alex Brown, marauding from prop and even getting a decent boot upfield in. Scored a cracking try too!
🟠 Try Scorers 🟠
Lewis Bain x2
Cal Shaw
Tyler Edwards
Alex Brown
James Gill
Mark Springall
🟠 Conversions 🟠
Tom Sherratt 5/6
Will Bowyer 0/1